Loving Bees
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Bees stir each one of our senses — the zen-like hum, the sweet honey, the waxy smell of wildflowers mixed with hard work, the vibrant orange and black bodies attached to window-paned wings.
If they land on us, and we are calm, say beekeepers, it will be a gentle touch; they will sting only to save their lives.
Bees are endangered, but all over the world, people are stepping up to save them — in backyards, science labs, and the abandoned lots of urban Detroit. We explore the art to building a relationship with bees, and the science of how they thrive and what we might do to preserve them for future generations.
Original Air Date: July 28, 2018
Guests:
Heather Swan — Nicole Lindsey — Timothy Paule — Thor Hanson — Christof Koch — Tania Munz — Stephanie Elkins — Peter Sobol — Anne Strainchamps
Interviews In This Hour:
Falling In Love With Bees — Listening To The Mood Of The Hive — 'Medicine' — Why We Ought to Live a 'Pro-Bee Lifestyle' — Rebuilding Detroit, Hive by Hive — 'Honeybee' — How Do We Wrap Our Minds Around Bee Consciousness? — Waggle Dancing with Karl von Frisch — 'To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee'
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX. |
| 0:05.1 | Do you have any idea how many people all over the country are trying to save bees? |
| 0:10.9 | It's a lot. |
| 0:12.9 | What's your relationship to these bees? |
| 0:15.6 | We're bee parents. |
| 0:17.7 | From suburban backyards to empty city lots, we have become a nation of beekeepers. |
| 0:23.3 | They can dance a map in the dark to a flower, and the other bees will understand that. |
| 0:30.9 | It's so miraculous, isn't it? It's so miraculous. |
| 0:34.3 | Hi man, strange champs, bees are amazing, but if they're endangered, so are we. |
| 0:39.3 | This idea of the bee apocalypse has definitely caught our imagination in part because we're |
| 0:45.3 | so dependent upon bees for so much of our food supply. |
| 0:49.3 | Every third bite of food is reliant on bees. |
| 0:53.3 | This hour, saving and loving bees. |
| 1:10.2 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 1:15.6 | When did you first begin to notice, like really pay attention to bees? |
| 1:27.0 | So the first time that I was around a group of beehives up close was when I was probably around eight years old. |
| 1:37.3 | This is writer Heather Swan. |
| 1:41.5 | My dad took me to visit a beekeeper. |
| 1:47.0 | We walked into this room after looking at all of the beehives, and there were all of these |
| 1:55.0 | frames filled with luminous honey, gorgeous honeycomb. |
| 2:01.6 | Bees were flying everywhere and there was this man |
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