Pollination Ecologist Stephen Buchmann on the Internal Lives of Bees
Did you know that bees have thoughts, memories and personalities? They can count to four, play soccer and feel pain, according to Stephen Buchmann, a pollination ecologist who has studied bees for more than four decades, ever since he was a high school student in Placentia, California. We talk to Buchmann about the internal lives of bees and why the stress they feel may be one reason they’re dying off at alarming rates. Buchman’s new book is “What a Bee Knows.” Guests: Stephen Buchmann, pollination ecologist specializing in bees and an adjunct professor in the departments of Entomology and…
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