How honeybees wreak havoc on San Diego's plant life
When most of us think of honeybees buzzing around our flowers and doing the hard work of pollination, we don't think of them as an evasive species....
When most of us think of honeybees buzzing around our flowers and doing the hard work of pollination, we don't think of them as an evasive species. But that's exactly what they are in San Diego. And they're bad for some of San Diego's plant life, especially when it comes to our region's native plants, according to UC San Diego researchers. 'Seeds or seedlings that are produced through honeybee pollination were anywhere between two to 10 times less fit, compared to the seed and seedlings that are cross-pollinated by hand or by native pollinators,' said Dillon Travis, a former UC San Diego ecologist and author of a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.