Original Airdate: February 26, 2019
Do you ever just wonder, “are the bees doing okay?” They’re so important to our food industry and native ecosystems, and every couple of years it seems like something horribly bad is happening to them. So this week, we’re taking a look at the fascinating lives and deaths of bees!
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[Poem]
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/206/2/353.full.pdf
[Truth or Fail]
Handedness in bees
Bees understanding zero
Bees recognize faces
[Ask the Science Couch]
CCD:
https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder
Glyphosate:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/17/2799
https://www.glyphosate.eu/glyphosate-mechanism-action
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305
Native bees:
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Xerces_policy_statement_HB_Final.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/
[Butt One More Thing]
Isopentyl acetate:
https://www.extension.entm.purdue.edu/beehive/pdf/Breed_et_al.pdf
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamyl_acetate#section=Top
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