Honeybees Need Your Help, Honey

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🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A deadly triangle of factors is killing off U.S. honeybees. Last year, forty percent of honeybee colonies died in the U.S., continuing an alarming trend. Entomologist Sammy Ramsey tells host Maddie Sofia about the "three P's" and what listeners can do to help our fuzzy-flighted friends.

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0:47.3	Maddie Sifaya here today a non-coronavirus episode for you about honey bees from a guy who
0:53.6	knows all about them.
0:55.6	Sammy Ramsey aka Dr. Bugs.
0:59.7	So first of all, can I just ask you how you got that nickname?
1:03.3	So I actually got that title Dr. Bugs while working at the Supreme Court of the United States.
1:09.1	I worked at the Supreme Court in the, I know, I know.
1:13.9	I was the only interned entomology major and the deputy clerk of the court referred to
1:19.7	me as Bugs.
1:20.7	And then when I told him that I was going for my doctor, he's like, oh, Dr. Bugs.
1:24.7	So honestly, the Supreme Court folks just did not know how to handle your entomologist
1:28.7	and all they could do was just yell Bugs.
1:32.0	They really did not know what to do with that.
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