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Maybe peak solarpunk: An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels. (www.ecoportal.net)

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An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels, make honey, and teach employees how to become beekeepers, and it is working. I had never come across solar beekeeping before, but it's an awesome synergy of nature and green energy tech!

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 months ago

Well I mean bee farming with solar panels is innovative, but bee farms won't save the bees. That would be like saying that birds can't be endangered, we have lots of chickens

[-] SlippiHUD@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago

Yeah, unfortunately the best thing they could have done for native bees is plant native flowers under the panels and keep no honeybees.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Well the article explains they did plant native flowers. But what's wrong with honey bees?

[-] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

European honeybees protected by human beekeepers outcompete native pollinators for the nectar and pollen that these plants grow, so that the native pollinators struggle to get enough food.