Wild pollinators x Honey Bees

Last week an interesting Science article was released with some brazillian researchers as co-authors and it had a good repercussion on one of the main news website of our country (see here). I think this is awesome for spreading the importance of pollination studies and the conservation of wild bees.

Wild pollinators (regarding mainly wild bees) are not popularly known and need conservation and outreach programs.

People just know the bee species that produce honey as honey bees, the most known. Media is not interested in publishing this kind of subject and due to it people knowledge doesn't comprise an important issue like that.

The specialized literature has published a lot of studies about problems with the presence of the generalist honey bees (and their races) in many types of landscape. We know that honey bees are good pollinators for many crops and wild plant species, but the wild ones are better. Besides we have concerned about competition between them and honey bees (see my article about this here).

We also know that honey bees are economically important in honey production and produce it more than stingless bees, for example.

However, it is a good time to obtain more data and get them into practice.