[Arthalion]

this whole scare seems more like a political tactic by the beekee
Places like the California Central Valley (where the almonds and most of Californias other crops are grown) no longer have functioning native bee populations. Long ago, when the valley was crisscrossed by riparian forests along the riverbanks, the valley sustained a natural bee population, but those forests were cut down long ago and those bees are practically extinct.

Our choices are: 1) Pull tens of thousands of acres of farmland out of production and turn it back into forest so the native bee populations can re-emerge (in a few decades...maybe). 2) Import bees.

[GreenFreeper]

In some of my research I found that native bees are pretty resilient. In agricultural settings, honeybees effectively replace native bees. However, once the land is returned to a somewhat (usually severly degraded)natural conditions, native bee populations returned within 5 years. Granted you do lose some diversity but overall they rebound rather nicely. My work was with bees in the midwest so it may be a bit different. Aside from a few specialized pollinators, most bees do not reside in forested areas. That said, forest isn't really native in the area we did our work. Forests were the result of mass fire supression and altered hydrology.

[stylin19a]

I'm thinking just leave a few open half drank (drunk ?)pepsi cans lying (laying?) about...there'll be more bees than you mite think.