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Wild Bees in the Americas
September 11, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 8 weeks ago
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Before Columbus, the Americas had no wild colonial honeybees. All the "wild" bees that are now extinct were feral.
Before Columbus, there were a variety of solitary bees, wasps, flies, etc. that ate nectar and pollinated flowers. However, with the advent of feral honeybees, the numbers of the single ones greatly diminished.
I haven't heard whether the numbers of wild non-colonial bees, etc. have rebounded since the feral honeybees have died.