[MCN] Honeybees are the least-best bees, and they can endanger the best

[Lance Olsen]

Bumblebees are extremely efficient pollinators,” says U.S. Forest Service research ecologist Joseph O’Brien <https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/staff/819>. “In the time it takes a honeybee to pollinate a single blueberry flower, a bumblebee can pollinate as many as six.”
Wild bumblebees – and there are 46 native bumblebee species – pollinate for free. But farmers often rent honeybees. 

https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/2017/05/09/bumblebees-and-blueberries/

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“The US economy is based on debt-financed overconsumption, while China’s is based on debt-financed overinvestment.”

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
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