https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/us/be...scn/index.html
Excerpt from above article: -I never knew this, but I can see it now..."Honestly Officer, I'm just trying to save bumble bees!"
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Bees and marijuana
A different group of researchers from New York recently found that cannabis crops are also proving beneficial to declining bee populations -- specifically, large numbers of 16 different species of bees thriving among recently-planted cannabis plants.
EPA expands use of pesticide that can be toxic to bees
Marijuana crops are helpful to bee populations in that they don't require one of the main farming practices that is a threat to bees today: insecticides.
"As an exclusively wind-pollinated crop, hemp lacks nectar but produces an abundance of pollen during a period of floral dearth in agricultural landscapes," said the report published in the Oxford University Press.
Because of its unique flowering phenology, hemp can potentially provide nutrition to bees during a period of floral scarcity. In a time when cannabis is a rapidly expanding crop in the US agricultural landscape, "growers, land managers and policy makers should consider its value in supporting bee communities and take its attractiveness to bees into account" when developing pest management strategies with the health of bees in mind, the report said.
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