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This wild ground bee, Andrena nothoscordi, is typically found in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast and loves false garlic flowers. Sam Droege/USGS Bee Lab via Flickr

It’s OK to love all the bees (the honey bees, too)

Christina Grozinger, Penn State; Andony Melathopoulos, Oregon State University; Clare Rittschof, University of Kentucky; Harland Patch, Penn State, and Jay Evans, Agricultural Research Service, USDA

The accusations you might have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed up by evidence. In fact, there are plenty of ways bees make the world a better place.

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