Forage First: honeybees, wild pollinators and the design of floral carrying capacity

An independent practice-research study examining the relationship between managed honeybees and wild pollinators as a problem of landscape design rather than of blame. It argues that competition between managed and wild bees is largely a symptom of insufficient and discontinuous forage, mediated by landscape context, and that the variable missing from current statutory assessment — including Biodiversity Net Gain — is floral carrying capacity: how much a place can feed, in which months, and for whom. The study moves from diagnosis to a proposed function-aware assessment layer (nectar and pollen productivity, seasonal continuity, and specialist-resource provision) and sets out principles for coexistence by design. Open Archive Edition.