Maximilian Ebrard first started keeping bees as a kid in France. He's 31 and works with a beekeeping company called UBS. "There is like a cult documentary waiting to be made about bees," he says. 'I was remembering how when I was in elementary school, there was a close up picture of a bee on my textbook'
Humanity can’t survive without bees, which is why bees are big business for thieves. Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah heads to the capital of sting operations — California’s Central Valley — to find out who’s beehind these thefts and why they're happening.
This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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