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This week, a new concern for bumblebees, the researchers mapping opioid use in the US,

and the importance of understanding the weather in our oceans.

I'm Adam Levy. And I'm Benjamin Thompson.

Last weekend, I went to a barbecue in my friend's garden.

And, of course, being the UK, it was a bit drizzly, but we barbecued anyway.

We were kept company by a couple of bumblebees that were loving the lavender plants

and spent a good chunk of time bumbling around the purple flowers looking for nectar.

But bumblebee's clumsy quest around flowers actually makes this type of bee super important,

as Harry Sivitza from Royal Holloway University of London explains.

Bumabee is absolutely vital for pollination services, yeah, for agricultural crops and for wildflower

pollination as well. We know that Bumblebee are absolutely fantastic pollinators, and this is basically

because they're so big and such clumsy pollinators, they're much more effective pollinators than other species of

bee. And they're really, really important for things like tomatoes, strawberry pollination,

...