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Ep. 415 - Inside the Minds of Bees

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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The Different Sensibilities of Bees

There's a huge global industry around the world with plant breeders making fancy flowers. When bees or butterflies go out there to visit them, they show up and there may be little or no pollen. And it's often very very much true that there's no nectar. So you can literally use a homeowner, spend a fortune on fancy modern hybrid plants but you're really doing a disservice to the pollinators by not using native plants.

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