Well, figuratively...sort of. Here is a long article discussing why society is a bit turned around backwards on the whole "Save The Honeybee" movement, so I am cutting and pasting the part that I think sums it up nicely. I have gotten into many fights with people about this issue. our honeybees aren't even native to the US and mother nature did a smashing job with the place before the european bees arrived.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...inst-honeybees
"Looked at head-on, these problems are not so much a result of the honeybees’ decline as a symptom of their ascendance. Without a stackable, shippable, one-size-fits-all pollinator, we would need to work around native bugs’ needs. We would have had to leave them some diverse, livable habitat, in and among the identical rows of crops. The honeybee has lent us “the unfortunate capacity—in the short term—to do without little fringes of nature,” says Hirsh. “Without the honeybee industrial complex, you would have to keep those bits around.” We used the bees to build a flawed system, and now that they’re collapsing, it is, too. We don’t have to save the honeybee—we have to save our land from honeybee dependence."