• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 days ago

    Idk, last I checked the European Honey Bee was native, but I guess you could prefer bumblebees?

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      18 days ago

      From Wikipedia:

      “The western honey bee can be found on every continent except Antarctica. The species is believed to have originated in Africa or Asia, and it spread naturally through Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Humans are responsible for its considerable additional range, introducing European subspecies into North America (early 1600s), South America, Australia, New Zealand, and eastern Asia.” So, depends where you live. Especially South and Central American honey bee populations have been overtaken by the africanized honey bee though, which is a feral human-bred hybrid that escaped the lab in Brazil.