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		maxerickson on Oct 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, ... US honeybees are livestock, they aren't a native species. They travel in semi-truck loads of 400 to 500 colonies each! The apparent decline in native insects is very concerning.

Chris_Jay on Oct 30, 2018 [–]

Wild honeybee colonies used to exist, though granted they were a new import.

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