Where have the Honey Bees gone to?

[Midnight Rambler]

The varroa mites have done a number on them on this side. They can be controlled in managed hives but they've hit the wild ones pretty hard, and there's also the small hive beetle to deal with if you keep bees. Honeybees are still abundant on the Kona side though. BTW the large black bees are actually carpenter bees (the black ones are the females, the males are brown).