Humans also face severe treats and are not doing well but are not going extinct tomorrow. Honeybees seems to only decline in North America, especially the USA, but as you said it’s human intervention that keeps their population booming years after years. Perhaps a decline wouldn’t be so problematic it doesn’t go to extinction? A decline in chickens population wouldn’t lead to extinction, to elaborate on the funny authors take:

> Promoting honeybee hives to save pollinators is roughly the equivalent to building more chicken farms to save bird biodiversity

The other problems you raise are important but are also a treat to others bee species and insects.

https://earth.org/data_visualization/bees-are-not-declining-...

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b3ing 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Honeybees aren’t native to North America

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bombcar 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Neither are humans, apparently.

I wonder if it would be possible to experiment a bit - ban honeybee hives in a 10 mile square radius, or perhaps in that area that bans all radio transmitters. See what happens.

	▲	matt_kantor 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Neither are humans, apparently. That depends on how you draw the line. Most would consider buffalo[0] to be native to North America, but they arrived less than 200000 years ago. If you go far enough back, no life is native to anywhere except wherever abiogenesis occurred. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison

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