Episodes
Do Native Bees Make Better American Olive Oil?
The US olive oil market is worth nearly three billion dollars — and 95 percent of it is imported. But across seven American states, a small, quality-focused domestic industry is growing. And native be...
Bumble Bees Have Their Own Air Conditioning? Scientists Just Found Out!
A brand-new study — published this week in the Journal of Animal Ecology — just revealed something remarkable about bumble bee colonies: they function as living thermostats, maintaining their brood at...
Do Wild Bees Eat Lawn Grass Pollen? Surprising Science Says Yes
Everybody knows grasses are wind-pollinated. Right? RIGHT?? Turns out the textbooks have been quietly leaving something out. Bees — honeybees, bumblebees, sweat bees, mining bees — are visiting grass ...
5 Million Bees Under a Cemetery: Your Dead Relatives Are Saving Native Bees!
5 Million Bees Under a Cemetery.
The Spring Bulb Conspiracy: $1 Billion Worth of Empty Flowers
The Netherlands ships one billion flower bulbs to the United States every single year — and most of them grow into flowers that feed no bees at all. Modern hybrid tulips are sterile and produce no nec...
Through the Eyes of a Bee - How Bees See a World We'll Never See
Bees have five eyes, can see colors that don't exist in the human visual spectrum, and navigate by reading polarized light patterns in the sky like a living GPS. With the National Geographic Secrets o...
My Article Featured in the Pollinator Partnership Bee Friendly Gardening Newsletter - American Bumble Bee
Exciting news — Kelly's article on the American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus) was just published today in the Pollinator Partnership Bee Friendly Gardening Newsletter. In this short episode, she s...
The Bumblebee Who Rolled a Ball 117 Times for Fun
One bumblebee. One wooden ball. One hundred and seventeen times - with no reward, no training, and no reason anyone could explain. In Part 2 of our bumblebee play series, we follow PhD student Samadi ...