As interest in native bee conservation has increased, so has research into the potential negative effects that competition with managed honey bee apiaries can bring to nearby native bee communities. Studies on this topic have focused on pathogen spillover between these two groups and depletion of pollen resources from honey bee foraging, but it is not clear whether this potential competition is detrimental to native bee populations. Furthermore, research efforts usually place honey bee apiaries adjacent to native bee habitat for short durations of 1-3 years, leading to a lack of understanding on the potential long-term consequences of competition between these two groups. There is also the potential for honey bee microbiomes to spill over into native bee communities that has yet to fully be explored, with native bee microbiomes only just beginning to be fully mapped. GEMS trainee Tristan Barley proposes investigating these questions by utilizing apiaries that have been present near native bee habitats for >10 years to better understand the long-term effects of competition on native bee communities. This research continues from previous efforts in 2021 and 2022 using sites with and without apiaries present to assess native bee communities, record flower visitation, and ascertain if honey bee viruses are present in these native bee communities. Additionally, this research can be expanded to include investigating the microbiomes of native bees at these sites to determine if honey bee microbiome spillover is occurring.