Turns out bee are like livestock: humans breed them at a rate proportional to how much money they can make from it. We move billions of bees to California to pollinate almonds every year, and about half die from it.
Wealthy Wall St. investors own a lot of CA almond farms: they took their money out of stock during the 2008 financial crisis, bought land in California, and paid people to plant almond trees.
With that much money on the line, there's a strong financial incentive to breed more #bees