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Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 11: Breeding A Better Bee

Humans have been breeding honey bees for centuries to help them adapt to new environments, and with technology improving at a rapid pace, breeders may now have the too...

Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 10: A Perfect Symbiosis

ARS research entomologist Dr. Shawn Steffan works in cranberry country, USA – aka Madison, WI. Here, bees are vital to cranberry production, so keeping them healthy an...

Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 9: The Hunt For A Predator

Join us at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., where we talk with ARS researcher Matthew Buffington, who explains how a deadly predator to the ...

Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 8: Bee Diversity

How many different types of bees can you think of?  Bumble bees, honey bees, mason bees. There’s actually a lot more bee diversity than you think, a lot more. Find out...

Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 7: Honey Bees And Pesticide Exposure

Pesticides are an important tool for managing hungry and destructive insects and invasive species. But there is little known how pesticides affect the bees that pollin...

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