I Care About The Environment

It has occurred to me that swimming pools may be a big contributing factor in the decline of bees.
I’m working on a house in the desert of Arizona for the weekend, it has a rather large swimming pool. I just spent about an hour pulling live bees out of the water, there were at least 100+ no exaggeration. I decided to stop when one almost stung my face.
In an area with little to no water, bees will look for it wherever they can. I’m curious, I haven’t actually looked, if this is something EPA or anyone trying to preserve bees might have looked into? When people think of pools or bees they don’t exactly think of them together. What do you guys think?

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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

They drown in wetter areas too, we've destroyed so many natural bodies of water that I doubt pools have replaced those deaths

GlitterBug · 22-25, F

Well the natural bodies of water have edges and rocks and such, somewhere bees can land. I noticed the bees tried landing on the floater for chlorine tablets, most of them would slip off into the water. I suppose you are correct though, pools more than likely don’t take more bee lives than an original body of water might. Maybe it seems more concentrated here because it’s so dry? Only body of water is a river that’s miles away. @Jackaloftheazuresand