Honey bees in America are livestock, and these are animal husbandry concerns, not ecological ones. Honey bees are invasive (in fact, they outcompete native pollinators and are ecologically problematic). The Varroa Destructor mite killed every feral honey bee off in the 1990s, and while the situation may have changed in recent years, it was the case not long ago that every true honey bee you saw in the US belonged in some sense to a human owner.