Claim · #6495808
Apis mellifera · pest pressure · Apoidea (superfamily)
pest pressure · effect: harmful
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“managed honeybees can negatively impact wild bees through competition for floral resources”
- Authors
- Garibaldi L.A., et al.
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Nature Sustainability
- Page
- 1325
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Floral-resource competition and pathogen spillover from managed Apis to wild bees is documented (Mallinger et al. 2017).”
- entomologist · plausible
“Apis mellifera competition with wild bees and disease spillover (e.g., Nosema, DWV) is well-supported in pollinator-health literature.”
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