[ehaveman]

this stat is totally wild to me:

> 100 native orchard mason bees can do the equivalent pollination work of tens of thousands of honeybees

[AdmiralAsshat]

While fascinating, this is the kind of information I wish would have been buried in the article in four-point font, where it can't hurt anyone. Because you know someone will read it and then get starry-eyed about the possibilities of min/maxing the capabilities of a super-bee pollinator via cross-species breeding, gene manipulation, etc.

And that's how you get killer bees. Again.

[cryptonector]

That's a great username for that sort of post.

[throwanem]

No one who understands the hymenopterans can make this mistake. No one who could make this mistake understands the hymenopterans. The risk you see isn't present.