Nature and Gardening

7556 readers

1 users here now

All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

See also our Environment community, which is focused on weather, climate, climate change, and stuff like that.

(It's not mandatory, but we also encourage providing a description of your image(s) for accessibility purposes! See here for a more detailed explanation and advice on how best to do this.)

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

NataliePortland@beehaw.org

LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org

remington@beehaw.org

TIL most bee species are solitary, "in the sense that every female is fertile, and typically inhabits a nest she constructs herself." (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to c/greenspace@beehaw.org

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

truly thought all bees lived in big hives with queens and workers

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] devnev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our exploitation if honeybees for honey and crop pollination in turn pushes out native bee species, which then causes native flora to lose pollinators with which they have a symbiosis. There are bee nests you can buy or even make (they're basically blocks of wood with deep holes of the right size) to help them survive, along with generally changing consumer habits to reduce exploitation.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

thanks for the tip!