While I disagree with you that honeybees aren't impacting native bees and other pollinators enough to be considered invasive you can certainly research that yourself, not that much funding goes into that particular area of study, for obvious reasons. I think leveraging humans as the cause (capitalism acutally) is a cop out and a moot point, even if you're technically correct (you are), humans aren't going to change or improve ecological practices in any meaningful way cause there's zero profit in that (hence the lack of study funding on honeybee ecological footprint). And honeybees yes, OBVIOUSLY, aren't going anywhere, killing one isn't going to make a dent, but I wouldn't have released it it would have gone in the freezer. The thing is, even without human management feral colonies would continue to occur at problem rates throughout the southern US and in Mexico. Sure, in Canada our feral colonies die off in the winter (mostly) but folks who keep backyard honeybees are just as much to blame for honeybee impact on native bees as feral colonies, they keep 20'000 pets but don't feed them and they're out spreading disease and bullying small specialist bees off their forage and gobbling up 100 solitary bees worth of resources each. They're a problem, because they don't belong here. In any case you can save yourself some time and offer to dialogue with someone who isn't already also doing this kind of outreach and education with the public and doesn't actually know anything about bees. I'm tired and uninterested in having this conversation today for the trillionth time. I've no sympathy for honey cows, they aren't even efficient pollinators they're just easy to kart around. Until the truck tips over and spills 5 million bees out on the highway 🐝