A small seaside town north of Dublin set out to save a vanishing ginger-colored bumblebee — and the way they did it holds a lesson for every gardener, balcony grower, and small-space planter in America. This week we travel to Skerries, Ireland, to meet the large carder bee and the community that built it a home out of wild meadows. Then we come home to discover the "secret hum" of buzz pollination — the irreplaceable trick bumblebees use to pollinate your tomatoes, peppers, and blueberries that honey bees simply can't perform. Whether you've got acres or a single windowsill, this episode shows you how to run the Skerries experiment in your own backyard.
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A wonder-first science podcast about native bees, bumblebees, wild bees, and the lesser-known pollinators most of us walk right past every day.
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