261-All About Native Bees, with Heather Holm
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to bees, everyone's familiar with the iconic honeybee, but what many don't realize is that honeybees are not native to North America. The 4,000 or so native bee species in the United States behave much differently than honeybee colonies and are generally not well understood. To educate us on the diversity of native bees, pollinator conservationist and author Heather Holm joins me on the podcast this week.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:23.6 | Show. |
| 0:24.6 | I want to start off today's podcast with a quick story and how nicely it relates to my |
| 0:29.4 | conversation today with three time returning guest Heather home. |
| 0:33.2 | I've been looking forward to this one, which is all about native bees. |
| 0:37.5 | Well, just the other day, in fact, this past Sunday, I had just returned from a weekend |
| 0:41.8 | out of town, and I was in my garden checking on things as I always do when I had been away. |
| 0:46.7 | But in my garden, I have three small American chestnut trees. |
| 0:50.9 | They're in containers that I've been raising for a couple of years. |
| 0:53.9 | Well, this one tree had been totally visited by a leaf cutter bee. |
| 0:58.2 | And if you know the signature work of this bee, it's those circular carve outs along |
| 1:03.1 | the leaf margin that she takes to build her nest and sections off the chambers between |
| 1:07.6 | the eggs in the nest. |
| 1:09.9 | So while I was there, quietly sitting in awe and admiring the surgical extractions of |
| 1:16.0 | the leaf tissue by this amazing bee, she pops in for a cameo appearance. |
| 1:21.2 | And thankfully I had my phone, and I was able to document this very brief visit before |
| 1:25.6 | she left, but not before I got video of her carving off one more small piece of that |
| 1:30.5 | leaf to take back to her nest. |
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