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Then I encourage you.
Our native pollinators are disappearing as well, a story that is not
geting as much play.
Remember the days when the crabapples and such purely buzzed with
bees? Now you see the odd bumblebee, little else.

One way to help out is to plant good bee plants; they thrive on
privet
and holly, fruit trees, tulip poplar, dandelions (!), clovers,
brambles such as blackberry, as well as many common annual and
perrenial plants and herbs (my "Blue Bedder" agastache, Mexican sage
and borage are covered each year).

Thank you.

We have all of that plus acres of clover in the fields next door.

What I was concerned about; is it OK to put them in those stacked
hives even if you do not intend to harvest honey? I worry about
disease or problems from commercial hives that are not being used as
intended.

I have a nice shady spot on the edge of a field inside our deer fence
that I am pretty sure would be a good place. They would get access to
the fruit trees, and bushes the hummingbirds enjoy, and the deer are
prevented from eating plus the open fields.