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> but I haven't heard any serious discussion of honeybees going extinct.

In Europe it is..in fact it was the main-theme 3 years ago. And not just bees but insects overall...the honeybee was just the friendly looking ambassador for that message.




The number of hives in New Zealand has roughly doubled in 5 years - so much so that overstocking is a huge problem.

One small data point, but too many and too few are both bad. https://www.airborne.co.nz/pages/bee-keeping-statistics-new-...





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