Save the Bees From Pesticides

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The Center for Integrative Bee Research at UC Riverside is trying to save the bees from pesticides. Barbara Barr and Hoof are working on something that would repel the bees from any field that has been recently sprayed with pesticides. The solution that they're really focusing on right now is actually on a special kind of bee that sort of has it all. It's able to withstand a lot of the issues that come with modern farming.

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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