The plight of the honeybee has been the focus of many news stories over the last several years. But, honeybees are primarily an agricultural animal and saving them might not do much for the 20,000 other species of bees on the planet. Also, a new study has found that snowpack is declining all across the west – potentially leaving this region high and dry.
This episode was aired on March 8, 2018.
Credits:
Written, narrated, and produced by Rod Lammers. Edited by Patricia Salerno.
References:
- https://rapidecology.com/2018/
02/28/the-market-for-bees/ - https://www.npr.org/sections/t
hesalt/2018/01/27/581007165/ho neybees-help-farmers-but-they- dont-help-the-environment - http://science.sciencemag.org/
content/359/6374/392.full - https://www.nature.com/article
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