Episode 168: Fruitful Gifts from Busy Bees

<p>This episode explores new research, which has found that planting hedges and flower strips in orchards helps to support wild bee communities, thereby improving pollination.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/3600/fruitful-gifts-from-busy-bees/%20%E2%80%8E'>here</a>.            </p> <p>Read the scientific study that inspired it <a href='https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14277'>here</a>.  </p> <p>Read ‘The Bees’ by Bruce Mackinnon <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/52157/the-bees-56d230672b3bf'>here</a>.  </p> <p>---</p> <p>Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:</p> <p>Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a>  </p>