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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American, posted on August 21st, 2009. I'm Steve Murski. This week, more about bees and all manner of other insects,

with entomologist May Berendbaum from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Now, last week I promised you that you'd also get a fellow named John Williams,

the beekeeper at Darwin's home in England.

However, I'm traveling and I apparently neglected to bring along that audio file.

But this problem is easily fixed because what was supposed to be a two-part

podcast is now, a three-part podcast. I plan to post the Williams chat on Tuesday, the 25th of

August. So look or listen for that. Meanwhile, here's more with May Barrenbaum. Early in our conversation,

she mentions Reed Johnson.

You'll recall from part one that Reed is her student working on genomes.

Honeybees, everybody thinks, eat honey and pollen.

But in reality, they feed their grubs something called bee bread,

which is a mixture of honey and pollen packed into cells and it cures or ages.

And the suspicion is that maybe some of these symbiotic microbes are contributing to the

sort of processing of bee bread.

So one of the findings from this yet unpublished work that was discussed in Florida,

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