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[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s most likely agriculture. Gotta pollinate those crops. I imagine the scale of industrial farming is too large to just rely on local and wild pollinators.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not the scale, per se; it's the monoculture. They can't just keep bees next to the same field year-round because with only one kind of plant flowering, they would starve once its bloom was over. So they end up trucking them between places with different crops instead.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Ah I see. That makes sense.