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Actually I can only get one link to work properly, the Times article I can only see the first bit of and it appears to be quoting another article not scientific papers.. From what little I can see they are isolated studies that you seem to be extrapolating to suggest there IS a general problem with honeybee colonies affecting the other pollinator species. If anything is Trumpian then it is that premise that is flawed and is fake news being picked up by people who appear to have a vested interest in making waves....
Apols if all the links don't work. I typed them individually rather than cut and paste. This because I haven't mastered the art of posting multiple links! The Times article is based on a paper published from Kew Gardens.
Here is a cut and paste of part of my article:
The Times (30 Sept 2020) published an article ‘Honey trap as city hives leave wild bees at risk’ quoting a report from Kew Gardens which says that campaigns encouraging people to save bees have resulted in “an unsustainable proliferation of urban beekeeping” and this could do “more harm than good”. Recorded hives in London have more than doubled in a decade from 2,287 to 4,844.
And it’s not only London. The Brussels Times (14 Oct 2019) reported “Brussels wants to stop unfettered growth in beehives”.
The environmental agency plans to remove all the hives, previously encouraged, from nature sites it manages.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/bruss...iodiversity-hives-pollution-climate-apiarist/
Evidence
So, what is the evidence that honey bees, or an excess of them, can damage our ecosystem? Samantha kindly sent me the following references which I’ve attempted to summarise:
Proceedings of the Royal Society, 2016. ‘Experimental evidence that honeybees depress wild insect densities in a flowering crop’.
Honeybee and wild pollinator numbers in Sweden were compared in 23 fields of oilseed rape (OSR) hosting 624 beehives and 21 fields of OSR remote from beehives. Wild pollinators were significantly reduced in the fields with beehives..
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2016.1641
Nature, 2018. ‘Controlling the impact of managed honeybees on wild bees in protected areas’.
Sites with and without honeybees were compared in conservation areas rich in rosemary in Mediterranean scrubland in southern France. High density beekeeping reduced numbers of wild bees by 55% and these bees collected 50% less nectar and pollen than wild bees with no competition.
Of interest to all beekeepers: more nectar per hive was collected from sites with few beehives compared with sites with many hives.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27591-y
Nature, 2019. ‘Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks’.
A three-year study in Tenerife concluded ‘High-density beekeeping in natural areas appears to have a lasting, more serious, negative impact on biodiversity than was previously assumed’.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41271-5
PLOS ONE, 2019. ‘Wild pollinator activity is negatively related to honeybee colony densities in an urban context’.
The authors note that cities are perceived as shelters for pollinators because of low pesticide exposure and a high floral diversity. This has led to environmental policies promoting urban beehives which have thus increased markedly in recent years.
This Parisian study again confirms that increase in urban beehives is negatively correlated with the numbers of wild pollinators.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222316