An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels, make honey, and teach employees how to become beekeepers, and it is working. I had never come across solar beekeeping before, but it’s an awesome synergy of nature and green energy tech!

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    European honeybees protected by human beekeepers outcompete native pollinators for the nectar and pollen that these plants grow, so that the native pollinators struggle to get enough food.