What is going on everyone? It's Kevin here from Epic Gardening and today we're back again

with Dave Hunter of Crown Bees talking about probably the question most of us are the most familiar with or the topic most of us

are most familiar with when it comes to bees and that would be that you know we all

know bees are in trouble and you know you hear about things like colony collapse disorder you hear

about I don't know the Varroa might I think it's called but there's a lot of things that

are happening to bees but what I wanted to do was talk with Dave and really ask now that we know a little bit more about the many species of bees and what they're doing in the ecosystem, I would love to talk to you Dave about how does that

change our perception of what's going wrong with the bees. Does it make it worse? Does it

make it better? Does it add some sort of dimension that we haven't thought about yet?

I mean, what's your perspective on that?

Okay, all good questions.

I'm going to tread lightly on some things.

I'm going to say probably the big hierarchy of these is humans are blowing things.

I mean just whether it's the chemicals that we're putting out there, whether it's

the encroachment on their turf, whether it's the introduction of bees that shouldn't be there, we're probably doing the damage.

So, you know, probably blame us.

And I might even say, you know, global warming, we've done this to ourselves and we're scientists are looking

oh crud as the climate warms can the right insects from the southern climates, can they get to the northern climates fast enough

so that we still have the ecosystems moving up? I mean, it's that, we're doing a lot of damage, okay, but, We've heard save the bees for quite a while and if you've been listening past couple

podcasts yeah there's like 24,000 species of bees and seven of those are the honeybee.

So when we're saving the bees, well, mostly we're talking about all that we know, just the honeybee.

And I think we're using the honeybee wrong.

And if we've been talking about, you know, the wise of this.

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