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Enter the hive with us for another classic critter topic: BEES! We recorded so much on bees that we have to split this bee-nanza into a two-parter! In part one, Leah suits up for a tour at Two Hives Honey in Manor, Texas, and investigates honeybee ecology. In part two, we\\u2019ll focus on how, as a gardener, you can support our honey-making friends (along with native bees and other pollinators).\\xa0

What are honeybees? Why do they live in boxes? And how did Apis mellifera, just one of tens of thousands of bee species in the world, become so ubiquitous in our gardens? We\\u2019ll answer these questions and more with the help of professional beekeeper Samantha Dula.\\xa0

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The Beekeeper\\u2019s Bible by Richard A. Jones and Sharon Sweeney-Lynch; and Bee City (1951), a short film about honeybees narrated by sportswriter and amateur naturalist John Kieran.\\xa0