Rewind Ep. 16 - Bees | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Original Airdate: February 26, 2019 Do you ever just wonder, “are the bees doing okay?” They’re so important to our food industry and native ecosystems, and every couple of years it seems like something horribly bad is happening to them. So this week, we’re taking a look at the fascinating lives and deaths of bees! Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts! Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to find great SciShow Tangents merch! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen [Poem] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120316-hot-bee-balls-hornets-insects-brains-animals-science/ http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/206/2/353.full.pdf [Truth or Fail] Handedness in bees Bees understanding zero Bees recognize faces [Ask the Science Couch] CCD: https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder Glyphosate: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/17/2799 https://www.glyphosate.eu/glyphosate-mechanism-action https://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305 Native bees: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/ http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Xerces_policy_statement_HB_Final.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/ [Butt One More Thing] Isopentyl acetate: https://www.extension.entm.purdue.edu/beehive/pdf/Breed_et_al.pdf https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamyl_acetate#section=Top #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents