Some references relating to concerns about honey bees especially when apiaries are placed on public lands or in/near natural areas follow:
Commercial honeybees threaten to displace Utah’s native bees
Nick Bowlin March 7, 2019, High Country News
Fighting for Flowers: Native Bee Conservation and the Dangers of Honeybee Permitting on Public Lands
Thomas Meinzen, Grand Canyon Trust, March 2020 presentation
https://www.unps.org/miscpdf/MeinzenProtectBeesMarch2020.pdf
Will Putting Honey Bees on Public Lands Threaten Native Bees?
https://e360.yale.edu/features/will-putting-honey-bees-on-public-lands-threaten-native-bees
by Jennifer Oldhamd, September 15, 2020, Yale Environment 360 (published by the Yale School of the Environment)
Article quotations:
As suitable sites become scarce, commercial beekeepers are increasingly moving their hives to U.S. public lands. But scientists warn that the millions of introduced honey bees pose a risk to native species, outcompeting them for pollen and altering fragile plant communities.
“There are no feral honey bees in Utah — the winters are too long and cold,” Cane said. “This is essentially the most intact native bee fauna in the U.S. It’s worth protecting.”
Environmental groups want to block honeybees from Utah’s national forests
By Brian Maffly, Aug. 23, 2020, Salt Lake Tribune
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2020/08/23/environmental-groups-want/
Investigating Imperiled Bumble Bee Species Distributions and Habitat Associations
Oct 1, 2023 to Jan 30, 2026, USDA Research Project:
https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/project/?accnNo=445663
Bumble bees are critically important pollinators for wild plants and agricultural crop production, but are declining globally. Bumble bee population declines have been attributed to several interacting stressors, including land-use alteration and climate change.
Project 1100
Various articles from 2019 to 2021 including:
Why Honey Bee Apiaries Should Never Be Permitted On National Public Lands by Vincent Tepedino (2019).
https://www.projectelevenhundred.org/the-science
Xerces
An Overview of the Potential Impacts of Honey Bees to Native Bees, Plant Communities, and Ecosystems in Wild Landscapes: Recommendations for Land Managers
Comment: contains many recommendations with respect to the placement of apiaries on public lands and natural areas.
Citation:
Hatfield, R. G., S. Jepsen, M.Vaughan, S. Black, E. LeeMäder. 2018. An Overview of the Potential Impacts of Honey Bees to Native Bees, Plant Communities, and Ecosystems in Wild Landscapes: Recommendations for Land Managers. 12 pp. Portland, OR: The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
Want To Save The Bees? Focus On Habitat, Not Honey Bees
By Rich Hatfield and Matthew Shepherd on 6. July 2023
https://xerces.org/blog/want-to-save-bees-focus-on-habitat-not-honey-bees
Honey Bees in North America: Why Getting a Hive Won’t “Save the Bees”
by Rich Hatfield and Matthew Shepherd (Xerces), 2023
https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/22-011.pdf
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