I see where your going , and yah, but taking a devils advocate position on honeybees right now? C'mon.
No native fruit tree's require them? really great argument. what percentage of your fruit plants are native?
Bumblebee's ......fuck it this is a ludicrous reasoning to engage. good luck killing all the bee's for no reason.
There is just a lot of great reasons to have them around , and zero reasons to kill them that are rational.
The world is full of senseless killing. Let's just make friends with the bee's and not search for a dumb reason to exterminate something else that doesn't fit a narrow scope of understanding.
To bee clear. Killing a hive of honeybee's , at this point, as a fruit farmer, is asinine.
Is there any other move that can show you are completely out of touch with what is happening with the main food crop pollinators in 2023?
Fuuuuuuccccckkkkkk!
It kind of depends on what you grow. Honeybees are not native to North America; no native fruit species requires honeybees for pollination. A fair number use honeybees commercially, but if they need bees at all, bumbles and ground bees can handle it.
This includes rue, interestingly. Zanthoxylum is native to North America.
Pawpaws are beetle-and-fly pollinated, I think.