Honey Bees Part 1
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English - April 13, 2024 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBEarth Sciences Science Comedy Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ah the venerable Honeybee. Humanities history with this insect stretches back beyond the written word, even beyond podcasts. This incomprehensible timeframe has left people with a lot of time to figure out many different ways to keep, collect, and utilize honeybees. This is the focus of our first episode on honeybees, where we cover topics like early honey collection methods, the development of beekeeping, and the competing theories around the honeybees evolutionary origins.