Bees

I agree with you. Dandelions and clover are great for bees but people hate them on their lawns.  And yes, the aggressive pest control is bad for bees as well, although ticks and mosquitoes are disease carriers. So I understand the desire to get rid of them.

I’m trying to find native pollinator-friendly perennials for our yard. 

Some people also just lump all stinging insects together so beehives are treated the same as hornets nests. 

There’s also a world-wide plague of parasitic mites infesting and killing off the bees. Apiarists are despairing - good, real honey is becoming hard to find, and a lot of agricultural crops dependent on bee pollination are becoming harder to grow. 

No shortage of bees in our yard.  Honey bees, Bumble bees, Carpenter bees, Bees whose names I'll never know... Bees R Us.

I walked past our rhododendron just now and the whole bush is abuzz. 

I saw this post,

Spray one dandelion with Roundup and you can kill over 100 bees. The flower doesn't die right away, so bees keep visiting for days and carry the poison home. Put the herbicide down.

That said, I've planted a bee garden which has flourished and attracted quite a few bees. As well I've allowed clover to take over my lawn.

Here's a visitor dining on my lavendar.

And the insecticides. We can have Stepford lawns at the expense of a lot of insects 

If anyone wants bees they can have the ones that nested in my eaves today