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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LabradorDuck" data-source="post: 1631243" data-attributes="member: 80696">I wouldn't say that it has.  It is generally considered a valuable pollinator for food crops, but I seem to recall an article recently about the value of native bees to human crops being underestimated.  I can't imagine honey bees being better at pollinating native plants than native bees, which have probably been hurt by human activities even if honey bees haven't hurt them directly.  More relevant to this forum, the European honey bee has been cited as a factor in the extinction of the Carolina Parakeet through competition for nest sites.  The wholesale slaughter by humans was the main factor and may have doomed them anyway, but who knows?  Maybe without the bees the parakeets would have lasted long enough for people to decide to save them.</blockquote>