Pollination Ecologist Stephen Buchmann on the Internal Lives of Bees

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Did you know that bees have thoughts, memories and personalities? They can count to four, play soccer and feel pain, according to Stephen Buchmann, a pollination ecologist who has studied bees for more than four decades, ever since he was a high school student in Placentia, California. We talk to Buchmann about the internal lives of bees and why the stress they feel may be one reason they’re dying off at alarming rates. Buchman’s new book is “What a Bee Knows.” Guests: Stephen Buchmann, pollination ecologist specializing in bees and an adjunct professor in the departments of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona - He is also the author of “What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories and Personalities of Bees” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.3	Coming up on forum, do you think bees have feelings?
0:54.1	Pollination ecologist
0:55.1	Steven Buckman does. He's been studying bees for 40 years, and through his research
0:59.4	and others, Buckman has concluded bees have thoughts, emotions, memories, and personalities,
1:05.0	beyond the complex behaviors we've known about. His findings could help explain why bee colonies
1:10.7	are collapsing at alarming
1:11.9	rates and Buckman hopes force us to rethink how they're treated. California's fruits,
1:16.8	nuts and vegetables rely on bee pollination that's trucked in. We take a closer look at
1:22.0	what a bee knows after this news.
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