Honeybees

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Honeybees!

Buzz on over to the Blazing Caribou Hive and join Paul and Donna today to discuss these smartypollenpants little critters, the honeybee!

But first, the news!

McDonalds Opens A Tiny Restaurant For Bees

Is there a fly through? Of course there is!

Let’s take A Closer Look at the Waggle Dance! Article courtesy of beeculture.com.

♪ ♫ Get down, boogie-oogie-oogie! ♫ ♪

What’s the Waggle Dance and Why do Honeybees do it? Video courtesy of YouTube user Smithsonian Channel.

Narrated by the show’s hero, Sir David Attenborough!

Bee Venom and the Chemistry of Ouch! courtesy of beeculture.com

Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch!

Why do honeybees die when they sting? Article courtesy of pbs.org.

Nature is sometimes cruel. But here is a picture of a cutie pollenpants anyway.

Bee Movie (2007) – I’m Talking to a Bee! Couresty of YouTube user Movieclips.

Too bad it couldn’t bee a better movie!

Blues Brothers – King Bee, courtesy of YouTube user BluesBrothers534.

Buzz buzz! Buzz buzz!

How to keep bees! Article courtesy of beesbros.com.

Bee a beekeepah!

What? Native North American Honey Bees! Article courtesy of nativebeeology.com.

Look at these melipona bees! Native North American honeybees!

Now you know a little more about honeybees than you did this morning! What do you think of them? We want to hear from you! Send us your suggestions for animals you’d like to hear us talk about, or just drop us a line about anything at [e-mail]! We might even read your email on the show.

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About our voice actors:

Kari McGinnis runs Blazing Caribou Studios and is a co-host on the podcasts Feast On History and Trivia Geeks Live.

Chris Braaten runs the Podfix Network and is a co-host on More Gooder Than.

Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast.

Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1)

Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit.

Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast.

Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty,

and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe.