Native Melittology (INDIGENOUS BEES) with Krystle Hickman

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Honeybees get all the attention, but native bees are the underbugs to root for. Photographer, author, and National Geographic Explorer Krystle Hickman shows us the wonders of indigenous bees through her lens focused on conservation of bees and their habitats. She covers their lifecycles, tunnels, turrets, fuzzy butts, frat house cuddling, and sexual dimorphism. We also chat about taxonomic fisticuffs, bee hotels, the mustard blight, monocultures, the teeniest livestock, and how to appreciate and photograph all of the marvels you’ve been overlooking. So grab a sunhat, order her deck of native bee flashcards, fill up your water bottle, and let's stare into the bushes to meet some tiny new friends.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that suitcase that you haven't unpacked yet.
0:02.5	Alliward, this isologies.
0:04.6	You're here.
0:05.5	I'm here.
0:06.0	We're here.
0:07.0	The bees are here.
0:07.9	The bees are everywhere.
0:09.2	But in the US, 18 states have declared
0:13.0	that their state insect is epismaliferra, the honeybee.
0:16.7	Here's the thing.
0:18.0	That's not native to this continent.
0:20.4	It's a European honeybee.
0:21.8	It was imported for wax and honey and pollination.
0:24.7	Every honeybee you see in the US is feral.
0:27.4	What you may not know about are the native bees.
0:29.9	The ones that have been here for eons, yet none of them
0:33.7	are state insects.
0:35.0	So today we'll meet them.
0:36.2	And within an hour, you're going
0:37.6	to become the kind of person who's
0:38.6	obsessed with indigenous bee species.
0:41.1	So this episode started in my backyard over a year ago.
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