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Hello and welcome back to BigMood LittleMood. I'm your host, Danny Levery, and with me in the

studio this week is Emma Arnold, a comedian, artist and beekeeper who recently released a comedy

special called Myself. She hosts the CityCast Boise podcast and keeps bees and children with varying

degrees of success. Emma, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Danny. Do you mind if I ask?

I don't want to get too distracted by the bee part, but what kind of bees do you keep?

Are there particular types of bees that are unique to your area or that you prefer?

I keep European honeybees. Although in the last couple of years, I used to run quite a few

hives, but after some studies came out talking about how European honeybees, which are the bees that

make honey, obviously that you're familiar with? Your classic bees.

The classic bees. How actually having them in urban environments can actually push out a lot of

native pollinators. I have actually started to go back. I only have two honeybees hives now,

and I actually have started to try and do a lot more native bee. You don't actually keep them since

they're technically feral, I guess, or wild, but I have carpenter bee houses, and I have my whole yard

set up as a pollinator sanctuary for native bees. Actually in the last couple of years, it's been

really interesting to see as I cut down on honeybees, how many more native pollinators have come in

and how neat that's been. That's so exciting. I assume when you say native pollinators,

some of that is bees and some of that is birds, we're reaching the limit of my knowledge of how plants

work. No, like different bees and wasps. There's actually thousands of varieties of bees, like tons

and times. Even in your area, there might be a hundred different native bees that are running

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