Episode 168: Fruitful Gifts from Busy Bees
The Poetry of Science

Episode 168: Fruitful Gifts from Busy Bees

2022-10-03

This episode explores new research, which has found that planting hedges and flower strips in orchards helps to support wild bee communities, thereby improving pollination.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.            

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.  

Read ‘The Bees’ by Bruce Mackinnon here.  

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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