These motherfuckers had us all freaked out about bees dying and now this:

Honey bees are surprisingly abundant, research shows—but most are wild, not managed in hives

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-honey-bees-abundant-wild-hives.html

> There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in the Americas, Oceania and eastern Asia, where it is introduced.