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Overheard at National Geographic

Honeybee Chop Shop

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

4.5 • 10.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What is a honeybee chop shop, and why do they exist? Turns out the answer has everything to do with the food on our tables. We dig into the sticky business of beekeeping and commercial agriculture. For more information on this episode visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard. Want More? Read more about the seriously sticky problem of honeybee theft. Also Explore: Watch an amazing time-lapse of bees hatching. See how honeybees are each assigned their distinct jobs. Read about an unlikely feud between Maya beekeepers and Mennonites in Mexico. Learn more about honeybees. Without insects, we might all die, argues this author. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

At VWFS Renter Car, we'll give you exactly the car or venue aspo.

0:04.8

So you might want to stop calling us Renter Car and start calling us,

0:08.8

Renter Volkswagen Golf Auto or Renter Skoda Codiac for the whole family

0:13.1

or Renter Craft-a-Panel Van Respace for everything.

0:15.9

Actually, just call us VWFS Renter exactly the car or venue wanted

0:20.0

or VWFS Renter Car for short.

0:22.7

Say yes to vehicle rental as it should be.

0:25.2

Say yes to VWFS Renter Car, book online today.

0:28.9

Taisen says apply.

0:30.0

It's bad enough when someone steals from you.

0:32.6

It's even worse when they like the thing they still on fire.

0:36.0

They had a burn pile, it was just glowing red hot, it was about three feet high.

0:39.8

But that's what happened to Joe Romance.

0:42.2

He's a commercial beekeeper in California.

0:44.7

And he says one day he got a call from a friend.

0:47.0

He says, hey Joe, there's some guys that are new in town and I went to see who they were.

0:52.0

And I saw some of your green pallets and in the back kind of tucked away.

0:56.1

I said, yeah, I just had some stolen.

0:57.7

The green pallets had been stolen and so had the wooden bee boxes that sit on top of them.

1:03.4

Joe's friend gave him the address of where he might find them.

1:06.7

And when he pulled up to the house, they were having a party, kids and a jumpy gym and everything.

1:11.6

It was loud.

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