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tptacek 4 days ago

I'm not sure if the comment you're replying to is ironic, since it's repeating almost word-for-word my own honeybee rant, but Varroa mites drove feral honeybees in the US to extinction in the 1990s.

(There are lots of escaped, unmanaged honeybee colonies in North America, but it's unclear how many true feral colonies there are --- true feral colonies overwinter and reproduce).