To anyone thinking of beekeeping, the research evidence is now undeniable - remove your lawn & buckthorn/plant natives, forget honeybee hives. Please consider building native bee hotels, ground nest habitat and especially NATIVE WILDFLOWER POLLINATOR STRIPS - see here .
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666515822000154
https://pollinators.msu.edu/resources/pollinator-planting/pollinator-gardens/
https://www.canr.msu.edu/nativeplants/plant_facts/local_info/south_lower_peninsula
https://pollinators.msu.edu/resources/pollinator-planting/native-bee-habitat/
https://pollinators.msu.edu/sites/_pollinators/assets/File/Bees%20of%20Michigan%20Handout.pdf