Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Veness and every week I sit down for a 30 minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

This week I'm curious about how it can be less rude to bees. They're just a bunch of

little babies. I'm so excited to talk to you. I can't even handle it.

Dr. Nye. Welcome to Getting Curious. And you guys, it is not Bill Nye. It is gorgeous.

Dr. Nye, who is named as James, but we're going to say Dr. Nye because I'm very official

around here. Thank you. I'm so excited for you to be here. So you are basically my question

for you is what's going on with bees? What is going on with bees? It's a very general

question. We're going to meander all through the woods together on this.

Okay. First of all, let me just say, you know you guys, I'm obsessed with a doctor. I

love a title. Like I just I think it's amazing. And your your titles are vast and aplenty.

You literally went to Harvard and Cornell. And then you did, I mean, and you got the Harvard

junior felt, I mean, you're literally just like the smartest person. Like you're, it's

outrageous. It's amazing. And you are a bee specialist. Like you like, sorry. I mean, I

mean, like based off of what I read about you, but like you just quickly tell the children

listening what you do, what you're, like what's like a day in the life of Dr. Nye.

Sure. So I am a behaviorally collegeist that studies animal behavior and I focus on bees.

So you might say that I'm also an entomologist, but in terms of what identify as I would say

more as an animal behaviorist or a behaviorally collegeist. And very simply put, my life

San Vision growing up was to talk to the animals. And that's why I focused on bee language.

I love that story so much. It's amazing. So what's an entomologist?

An entomologist is someone who studies insects. Got it. Okay, great. So, okay. So that's, and so,

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