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Currently, hives are not allowed on County preserves, as European Honey Bees indiscriminately pollinate a lot of our invasive species (Brazilian Pepper is a major pollen source for them). There is also a bit of a liability issue, even though the European stock is pretty docile, and allergies to honey bees are pretty rare (more people who think they are allergic to bees are actually allergic to wasps/hornets, etc.), people may still mess with the hives and get stung. I know many successful entities that are keeping honey bees, and I haven?t heard of any issues with them.
Right now though we have been focusing more on providing native bee roosts on our sites and are having some success around the Lakela?s mint populations, the goals would be to provide for native bees over exotic species.
I?m going to leave it there and not ask her where feral bees came from