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From Bloomberg environment this is the business of bees. A pop-up podcast about the humble honeybee

and the outsized role it plays in our economy. The business of bees is quite good.

They're kind of like the panda, aren't they,

of kind of inversbruck conservation.

It's a big enough difference that without them,

there would be really no point in trying to farm almonds out here.

In fact, these days about one in three bites of food you eat

wouldn't be possible without commercial bee pollination.

You know, they'll go from almonds to plums to cherries to apples to vine crops to pit fruits to cotton to

lima beans to watermelons and then their season is over.

As important as bees have become for farming, there's also increasing signs that bees

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