Save the bees has gained a significant following in the past few years, but where did this come from? What are we saving the bees from? Tune in to hear about the ways that we can help our pollinators as well as some fun bee facts.
Sources:
World's Largest Bee:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/science/giant-bee-wallace.html
https://www.lostspecies.org/wallaces-giant-bee
https://medium.com/@LostSpecies/rediscovery-in-a-glint-of-blue-db87e685cd60
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25084498.pdfcasa_token=f3i6eFq8ql4AAAAA:OQ31Rlvqr5HhcNWUr2ez65w92Yv8tKMQSS_wkX-XYUCv6QQn0pzxRaxttrgN04OntcQir-1Olp7eaTcvVwqkhjnN9wJ_6cWKiH-w1xlyL4S5GGEq2Jk
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-was-alfred-russel-wallace.html

Fun Facts About Bees:
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.5.v.html
https://www.aaas.org/events/annual-meeting/2017/can-science-save-honey-bees

Save the Bees:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/interview-may-berenbaum-154052613/
https://www.aaas.org/events/annual-meeting/2017/can-science-save-honey-bees
https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org/the-situation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5tzx1x/science_ama_series_we_are_dr_may_berenbaum_and_dr/

Solitary Bees:
http://barnsleybeekeepers.org.uk/species.html
https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2001/07/pollinator-power
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/01/plan-save-monarch-butterflies-backfires
https://extension.psu.edu/what-can-we-do-to-encourage-native-bees
http://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/g2256.pdf

Bees Whooping:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-38967016/the-mystery-of-the-whoop-whooping-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171162