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| 6/19/26 |  Bonus: I Got My Governor to Declare Pollinator Week — Here's How You Can Too | A quick bonus update: how a five-minute email led to an official Montana Pollinator Week proclamation — and how you can get the same thing done in your own state before Pollinator Week wraps up.www.secretpollinators.comResources: State of Montana, Governor's Proclamation, Montana Pollinator Week, June 22–28, 2026 (signed by Gov. Greg Gianforte)#PollinatorWeek #NativeBees #MontanaPollinatorWeek #PollinatorPartnership #WildBees #SecretPollinators #BeeConservation #Montana #Wildbees #nativebees #Bees #gardening # | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  How One Woman's Idea Turned 400 American Cities into Native Bee Habitat | It started with one woman's frustration and a unanimous city council vote in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2012. Fourteen years later, more than 400 American towns and college campuses have made formal commitments to become better habitat for native bees.This National Pollinator Week, we explore what the Bee City USA movement actually does, why the science of solitary bee foraging ranges makes urban habitat networks so critical, and what happens when a city decides to see itself as a landscape instead of just a skyline.www.secretpollinators.comReferences:Bee City USA history and program structureXerces Society: "Bee City USA: Galvanizing Communities to Reverse Pollinator Decline" — xerces.org/blog/bee-city-usa-wingsXerces Society: "Phyllis Stiles of Asheville, NC: The Buzz Behind Bee City USA" — xerces.org/news (May 2024)Bee City Asheville: beecityasheville.org/aboutBee City USA: beecityusa.org/aboutSolitary bee foraging rangesGathmann, A. & Tscharntke, T. (2002). Foraging ranges of solitary bees. Journal of Animal Ecology, 71, 757–764.Zurbuchen, A. et al. (2010). Maximum foraging ranges in solitary bees. Biological Conservation, 143(3), 669–676. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.003Hofmann, M.M. et al. (2020). Foraging distances in six species of solitary bees. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 77, 105–117.Urban bee diversity and connectivityLundquist, M.J. et al. (2025). Bug roads: Modeling green space connectivity in NYC. Ecological Applications, 35(7), e70128. DOI: 10.1002/eap.70128Frantzeskaki, N. et al. (2024). Bees in the city: scoping review. Ambio, 53(9), 1281–1295. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02028-1National Pollinator WeekPollinator Partnership: pollinator.org/pollinator-week#SecretPollinators #PollinatorWeek2026 #BeeCityUSA #NativeBees #WildBees #SolitaryBees #UrbanPollinators #PollinatorHabitat #NativePlants #BeeScience #IndependentPodcast #SciencePodcast #PollinatorSteward #Bumblebees #MasonBees #HoverFlies #Gardening #NativeBeeHabitat #PollinatorPartnership | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  Wild Bees Cut Their Flight Paths by 80% - Here's How They Do It | A bumblebee leaves her nest with no map, no GPS, and no instructions. By the end of the week, she'll have figured out the most efficient route between every flower patch in her territory — reducing her total flight distance by eighty percent. That's not a metaphor. Researchers tracked it with radar. In this episode of Secret Pollinators, Kelly digs into the hidden navigation science of wild bees: traplines, floral constancy, the multi-scale memory that makes it all work, and why the technology to track solitary native bees is only now catching up to the questions scientists most want to answer. Plus: what the flowers have to do with all of it.No honey bees. All wild. All wonder.secretpollinators.comBumblebee traplines and route optimizationLihoreau, M., Chittka, L., & Raine, N.E. (2010). Travel optimization by foraging bumblebees through readjustments of traplines after discovery of new feeding locations. The American Naturalist, 176(6), 744–757. https://doi.org/10.1086/657042Woodgate, J.L., Makinson, J.C., Lim, K.S., Reynolds, A.M., & Chittka, L. (2017). Continuous radar tracking illustrates the development of multi-destination routes of bumblebees. Scientific Reports, 7, 17323. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17553-1Floral constancy in native and solitary beesShrotri, S., Kaur, S., Nawge, V., Sandhya, S., Dandavate, R., & Gowda, V. (2024). Revisiting Aristotle's observation on bees: High floral constancy is common among bees but it is shaped by the locally abundant flowering species. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.28.614270Lanza, J., Smith, G.C., Sack, S., & Cash, A. (2019). Honey bee and native solitary bee foraging behavior in a crop with dimorphic parental lines. PLOS ONE, 14(10), e0223865. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223865Memory and foraging ecologyWorden, B.D., & Papaj, D.R. (2005). Flower choice copying in bumblebees. Biology Letters, 1(4), 504–507.Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees. (2022). Current Biology, 32(18). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.068Bee tracking technology — solitary and wild beesKratschmer, S., Milchram, M., Landler, L., et al. (2025). Tracking large bees in open landscapes with active radio tags — advantages and challenges using stationary receivers. Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70061#SecretPollinators #NativeBees #WildBees #BeeNavigation #BumbleBee #FloralConstancy #Trapline #PollinatorWeek #PollinatorWeek2026 #BeeScience #WildPollinator #NativePollinators #BeeResearch #PollinatorSteward #PollinatorPartnership #BeeMemory #Pollinator #BeeFlight #NaturePodcast #SciencePodcast #BeeFlightPath #Bumblebees #travelingsalesmanproblem #solvedbyabee #trapline #beeroutes #beepaths #QueenMaryUniversity | — | ||||||
| 6/7/26 |  What One Irish Town Taught the World About Saving Bumblebees | A small seaside town north of Dublin set out to save a vanishing ginger-colored bumblebee — and the way they did it holds a lesson for every gardener, balcony grower, and small-space planter in America. This week we travel to Skerries, Ireland, to meet the large carder bee and the community that built it a home out of wild meadows. Then we come home to discover the "secret hum" of buzz pollination — the irreplaceable trick bumblebees use to pollinate your tomatoes, peppers, and blueberries that honey bees simply can't perform. Whether you've got acres or a single windowsill, this episode shows you how to run the Skerries experiment in your own backyard.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #BumbleBees #BuzzPollination #NativeBees #PollinatorMonth #LargeCarderBee #SaveTheBees #PollinatorGarden #BalconyGarden #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #Tomatoes #WildflowerMeadow #PollinatorCorridor #CitizenScience #BumbleBeeAtlas #LetItGrowWild #GardenTok #NativePlants #Sonication #Ireland #IrishBees #Skerries #Dublin #Irish #Flowers #Carderbees #Gingerbee #Wildbees #BuzzPollination | — | ||||||
| 5/31/26 |  Where Do Wild Bees Sleep at Night? | Go out to a meadow at dusk and look closely at the flowers — some of them are occupied. Wild bees sleep out in the open, and once you know to look, you'll never stop seeing them. In this episode, Kelly opens up the secret nighttime life of native bees: why the females go home to their burrows while the males sleep outside in the flowers, the astonishing way a sleeping bee holds on (with its jaws), the loyal little crowds of males that bed down on the same stems night after night, and how a cold morning can leave a bumblebee frozen in place, waiting for the sun. Best of all, this is one wonder you can confirm with your own eyes tonight. No lab required. Just a flower and the right hour.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #NativeBees #WildBees #PollinatorPodcast #BumbleBees #SolitaryBees #LongHornedBees #PollinatorGarden #NatureAtDusk #BeeBehavior #SciencePodcast #PollinatorsMatter #BackyardNature #WatchTheBees | — | ||||||
| 5/25/26 |  40 Million Years of Bee Theft: The Cuckoo Bumblebee Heist | For 40 million years, a small group of bees has been pulling off one of the most elegant heists in the insect world. They build no nests. They raise no workers. They never collect a single grain of pollen. Instead, they walk into the colonies of other bumblebee species and quietly take them over. They are the cuckoo bumblebees — and in this episode of Secret Pollinators, we meet all six species living across the United States.From the Suckley cuckoo bumblebee (Bombus suckleyi) of the Mountain West to the lemon cuckoo bumblebee (Bombus citrinus) of the eastern deciduous forests, this episode tours every cuckoo bumblebee in North America: Bombus suckleyi, Bombus insularis, Bombus flavidus, Bombus bohemicus, Bombus citrinus, and the vanishing Bombus variabilis.We explore the chemistry of infiltration — how cuticular hydrocarbons let a cuckoo bumblebee queen smell her way into a host colony undetected. We unpack the violent takeover: the queen-on-queen combat, the reinforced exoskeletons and oversized stingers, and the pheromonal reproductive suppression that follows. And we end with the story of the variable cuckoo bumblebee, a southern species that may already be functionally extinct across much of its former American range — a ghost that lived by erasing other bees, and has now been erased itself.A wonder-first science podcast about native bees, wild bees, bumblebees, and lesser-known pollinators.www.secretpollinators.com#CuckooBumblebee #CuckooBee #BeeHeist #BeeTheft #SecretPollinators #NativeBees #WildBees #Bumblebees #Bombus #ParasiticBees #BroodParasite #BombusSuckleyi #BombusCitrinus #BombusVariabilis #AmericanBumblebee #BeeScience #PollinatorPodcast #InsectScience #NatureScience #BeeFacts #PollinatorConservation #SocialParasite #CuticularHydrocarbons #BeeBiology #SciencePodcast #IndiePodcast #Bees | — | ||||||
| 5/16/26 |  Do Native Bees Make Better American Olive Oil? | The US olive oil market is worth nearly three billion dollars — and 95 percent of it is imported. But across seven American states, a small, quality-focused domestic industry is growing. And native bees, without invitation or management, are showing up in those groves every spring and doing something that a landmark 2013 study in Science confirmed: improving crop fruit set in ways that honey bees alone cannot match.Episode 41 follows olive trees from California's Central Valley to Georgia's coastal plain, and the native bee communities — mining bees, sweat bees, carpenter bees — that found them.Secret Pollinators is a solo narration science podcast about native and wild bees and the lesser-known pollinators shaping the world around us.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #NativeBees #OliveOil #AmericanOliveOil #WildBees #Pollinators #MiningBees #SweatBees #CarpenterBee #OliveGrove #ExtraVirginOliveOil #BeePodcast #NaturePodcast #SciencePodcast #Pollination #BeeScience #GeorgiaOlives #CaliforniaOliveOil #GroveToTable #FoodScience #WildBees | — | ||||||
| 5/9/26 |  Bumble Bees Have Their Own Air Conditioning? Scientists Just Found Out! | A brand-new study — published this week in the Journal of Animal Ecology — just revealed something remarkable about bumble bee colonies: they function as living thermostats, maintaining their brood at a precise 30 to 33 degrees Celsius, which is 86 to 91 degrees Fahrenheit, using only the bodies of their workers. When temperatures drop, bees vibrate their flight muscles to heat the nest. When it gets too hot, they fan their wings — a living air conditioning system. And when heat events become extreme, the entire colony redirects its labor away from foraging to cooling, with cascading effects on pollination. Kelly breaks down the science of bumble bee thermoregulation, the critical role of underground nest sites, and what this research means for how we think about wild bumble bee habitat. It's not just about flowers. It's about what's happening below the surface.www.secretpollinators.com#BumbleBees #BumbleBeeSciece #BeeScience #NativeBees #WildBees #Pollinators #PollinatorScience #BeeNesting #GroundNestingBees #BeeHabitat #Superorganism #ColonyBehavior #InsectThermoregulation #BeeConservation #NativeBeeHabitat #BombusImpatiens #SecretPollinators #NaturePodcast #SciencePodcast #WildlifeScience #NatureLovers #EntomologyNerd #Entomology #BeeResearch #NewResearch #JournalOfAnimalEcology #AuburnUniversity #NCState #PollinatorProtection #SaveTheBees #BackyardBees #BeeNerd #InsectScience #MindBlown #ScienceIsAmazing #LivingThermostat #UndergroundBees | — | ||||||
| 5/2/26 |  Do Wild Bees Eat Lawn Grass Pollen? Surprising Science Says Yes | Everybody knows grasses are wind-pollinated. Right? RIGHT?? Turns out the textbooks have been quietly leaving something out. Bees — honeybees, bumblebees, sweat bees, mining bees — are visiting grass flowers and combing pale yellow pollen straight off the anthers. And they're doing it without the usual floral road signs: no nectar, no big colorful petals, no UV bullseyes. So how on earth are they finding it? In this episode we dig into the surprising science of grass pollen as bee food, the new (and shockingly recent) research showing five genera of bees collecting pollen from a single turfgrass species, what cues bees use to spot grass anthers in a sea of green, and why the lawn under your feet might be quietly feeding the bees you're trying so hard to save with your wildflowers. Spoiler: the cemetery bees from Episode 37 were in on this all along.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #NativePollinators #NativeBees #PollinatorScience #BeeScience #LawnsForBees #NoMowMay #PollinatorPodcast #NaturePodcast #SciencePodcast #PlantTheSpecies #LetItBeWild #LeaveTheLeaves #GrassPollen #WildBees #SolitaryBees #Andrena #Bumblebees #HoneyBees #SweatBees #PollinatorConservation #NativePlants #PrairieGrasses #BeeFriendlyLawn #UrbanEcology #BackyardScience #PollinatorGarden #Entomology #Apidae #BeeFacts #WildBees #Lawn #Pollen | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 |  Was That a Bee, Wasp, Fly… or Superman? | It's spring. Things are emerging. Something just buzzed past your ear, and your shoulders went up to your eyeballs. But was it a bee? A wasp? A fly? A genuinely surprising number of the "bees" in your garden are actually flies wearing a very convincing costume. In this episode, Kelly walks you through a five-second checklist — wings, antennae, eyes, waist, hair — that'll make you the most confident pollinator ID-er on your block. Plus, the hoverflies fooling everyone, the bee flies zooming over your dirt banks, and why bees are basically wasps that went vegetarian 125 million years ago.How to tell if your pollinator is a bee, wasp or fly | The Great Sunflower ProjectBee Guides | Pollinator.orgwww.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #PollinatorPodcast #NativeBees #Pollinators #BeeID #Hoverflies #BeeFly #Bombyliidae #Syrphidae #NativePollinators #BeeOrNot #PollinatorEducation #BackyardScience #CitizenScience #PollinatorGarden #SavetheBees #MontanaPollinators #SpringPollinators #WildBees #NatureNerd #EntomologyPodcast #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #MimicryInNature #PlantTheSpecies #LetItBeeWild #Flies #Wasp #Bumblebee #NativeBees | — | ||||||
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| 4/16/26 |  5 Million Bees Under a Cemetery: Your Dead Relatives Are Saving Native Bees! | In 2021, researchers noticed something unusual about the northeast corner of a cemetery in Ithaca, New York. The ground was full of tiny holes. A Cornell University team set up emergence traps and counted what came out. The answer: 5.6 million solitary bees, emerging from beneath the headstones every spring, quietly pollinating a university apple orchard 600 meters away. Then the same team found 651,440 more bees in a suburban lawn — collecting grass pollen nobody knew they wanted. These populations are hiding everywhere in plain sight, in the patches of ground we've never thought to study. And the safest place a wild bee can nest might just be the one piece of land nobody ever builds on.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #5MillionBees #CemeteryBees #AndreaBees #AndenaRegularis #NativeBees #GroundNestingBees #SolitaryBees #BeeDiscovery #HiddenBees #EastLawnCemetery #CornellUniversity #PollinatorScience #WildBees #BeeConservation #ApplePollination #MelissodesBimaculatus #TwoSpottedLonghornBee #GrassPollen #BeeResearch #NativeBeeResearch #PollinatorConservation #SaveTheBees #BeeNerd #BeeFacts #InsectScience #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #NatureLovers #EntomologyNerd #Entomology #DidYouKnow #MindBlown #ScienceIsAmazing #HiddenNature #UnexpectedNature #BeesOfInstagram #PollinatorHabitat #SacredGround #TheDeadAreKeepingBees #NewEpisode #Ghosts #Dead #Cemetery #headstones #wildbees | — | ||||||
| 4/10/26 |  The Spring Bulb Conspiracy: $1 Billion Worth of Empty Flowers | The Netherlands ships one billion flower bulbs to the United States every single year — and most of them grow into flowers that feed no bees at all. Modern hybrid tulips are sterile and produce no nectar. Daffodils contain toxic alkaloids that bees avoid. The "pollinator-friendly bulb mix" at your garden center is mostly empty flowers dressed up for human eyes. Meanwhile, bumblebee queens emerging from winter starvation are flying over a $6 billion tulip industry that offers them nothing. Here's the real spring bulb story — and the species varieties that actually feed the bees you're trying to help.Visit my website for the Spring Bulb Guide: The Spring Bulb Guide: What to Plant for Pollinators (and What to Skip) | Native Bee Podcast: Identification, Conservation & Habitatwww.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #SpringBulbs #SpringBulbConspiracy #SpeciesCrocus #PollinatorGarden #BumbleBees #SaveTheBees #NativePlants #SpringEphemerals #BeeFriendlyGardening #BFGAmbassador #Tulips #Daffodils #GardenTruth #PollinatorConservation #WildflowerGarden #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #SciComm #FoodForBees #NewEpisode #nativebees #wildbees #pollen #readlabels #species #pollen | — | ||||||
| 4/3/26 |  Through the Eyes of a Bee - How Bees See a World We'll Never See | Bees have five eyes, can see colors that don't exist in the human visual spectrum, and navigate by reading polarized light patterns in the sky like a living GPS. With the National Geographic Secrets of the Bees special fresh in everyone's minds, this is the episode that goes deeper — into the visual system that makes all that extraordinary bee behavior possible. And yes, it changes how you'll think about your garden.Watch Secrets of the Bees TV Show - Streaming Online | Nat Geo TVwww.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #BeeVision #CompoundEyes #NativePollinators #PollinatorGarden #UVVision #BeeScience #SecretsOfTheBees #NatGeo #BumblebeeLove #NativePlants #PollinatorSteward #NationalGeographic #SecretsofBees #NativeBees #WildBees #JamesCameron #bees | — | ||||||
| 4/2/26 |  My Article Featured in the Pollinator Partnership Bee Friendly Gardening Newsletter - American Bumble Bee | Exciting news — Kelly's article on the American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus) was just published today in the Pollinator Partnership Bee Friendly Gardening Newsletter. In this short episode, she shares what's in the piece, why this bee matters, and where to read it. Head to pollinator.org or find the link in the show notes. Please consider becoming a member of the Pollinator Partnership - Bee Friendly Gardening.My-Favorite-Native-Bumblebee.pdfBee Friendly Gardening | Pollinator.orgwww.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #AmericanBumbleBee #BombusPensylvanicus #PollinatorPartnership #BeeFriendlyGardening #NativeBees #BumbleBee #SaveTheBees #PollinatorConservation #NativePollinator #BeeLovers #Pollinators #GardenForWildlife #PlantNatives #KellyParks #CertifiedPollinatorSteward #NewArticle #Published | — | ||||||
| 3/26/26 |  The Bumblebee Who Rolled a Ball 117 Times for Fun | One bumblebee. One wooden ball. One hundred and seventeen times - with no reward, no training, and no reason anyone could explain. In Part 2 of our bumblebee play series, we follow PhD student Samadi Galpayage, who couldn't stop thinking about the bees she'd watched rolling balls for no apparent reason. What she discovered - published in the journal Animal Behaviour in 2022 — became the first scientific proof that insects play. Not for food. Not for survival. Just for the joy of it. We dig into what that means for how we understand bee emotion, insect sentience, and the surprisingly blurry line between creatures that feel and creatures we've always assumed don't. If this episode doesn't change the way you look at the next Bumblebee you see, nothing will.Galpayage Dona, H.S., Solvi, C., Kowalewska, A., Mäkelä, K., MaBouDi, H., & Chittka, L. (2022). Do bumble bees play? Animal Behaviour, 194, 239–251www.secretpollinators.com#Bumblebee #BumblebeePlay #BumblebeeScience #BeeCognition #BeeFacts #NativeBees #BeeResearch #BeeLovers #SaveTheBees #PollinatorScience #PollinatorProtection #Pollinators #InsectSentience #InsectIntelligence #InsectBehavior #AnimalPlay #AnimalEmotion #AnimalCognition #AnimalBehavior #DoInsectsFeel #SamadiGalpayage #LarsChittka #QueenMaryUniversity #QMUL #AnimalBehaviour #SecretPollinators #NaturePodcast #SciencePodcast #NatureLovers #EntomologyNerd #Entomology #TinyBrainBigMind #117Times #PlayingForJoy #MindBlown #DidYouKnow #ScienceIsAmazing #UnexpectedNature | — | ||||||
| 3/19/26 |  Can Bumblebees Play Soccer? | What happens when a scientist hands a bumblebee a wooden ball and a target — and offers a drop of sugar as the prize? She scores a goal. In 2017, researchers at Queen Mary University of London discovered that bumblebees could learn to roll a ball to a target by watching another bee do it first — and then improve on what they saw. With brains smaller than a sesame seed, these tiny athletes showed a level of social learning and cognitive flexibility that stunned the scientific world. But the most surprising discovery? Some bees kept rolling the ball even when no reward was coming. That's where this story gets really interesting. Tune in for Part 1 — and stay for the twist that launched one of the most fascinating bee studies ever published.Here is the link to the article:Are these bumble bees playing with toys? | Science | AAASwww.secretpollinators.com#Bumblebee #BumblebeeScience #BeeCognition #BeeFacts #NativeBees #BeeResearch #BeeLovers #SaveTheBees #PollinatorScience #PollinatorProtection #Pollinators #InsectIntelligence #InsectBehavior #AnimalCognition #AnimalBehavior #AnimalPlay #SocialLearning #CognitiveFlexibility #LarsChittka #OlliLoukola #QueenMaryUniversity #QMUL #SecretPollinators #NaturePodcast #SciencePodcast #NatureLovers #EntomologyNerd #Entomology #TinyBrainBigMind #MindBlown #DidYouKnow #ScienceIsAmazing #UnexpectedNature #soccer #cognativeflexibility | — | ||||||
| 3/12/26 |  Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater — And Scientists Just Figured Out How | Bumblebee queens spend up to nine months hibernating underground — and sometimes, that ground floods. A 2021 lab accident accidentally revealed they could survive a week fully submerged. A new study out this week finally explains how: underwater breathing, anaerobic metabolism, and extreme metabolic slowdown — three survival systems running at once. Kelly breaks down the science and what it means for bumblebee conservation as flooding events increase.Link to Smithsonian article:Bumblebee Queens Breathe Underwater to Survive Drowning, Revealing How They Can Live Submerged for a WeekLink to the Royal Society B Research Article:Diapausing bumble bee queens avoid drowning by using underwater respiration, anaerobic metabolism and profound metabolic depression | Proceedings B | The Royal Society#SecretPollinators #BumblebeeQueens #NativeBees #Bumblebees #BombusImpatiens #PollinatorConservation #BeeScience #Diapause #GroundNestingBees #ClimateChange #Pollinators #BeesOfInstagram #SaveTheBees #Smithsonian #NewResearch #WildlifeScience #PodcastEpisode | — | ||||||
| 3/6/26 |  The First Ceramicists - When Native Bees Taught Us About Clay | 🎉 Featured in Ceramics Now Magazine! The article companion to this episode was just published at ceramicsnow.orgThe First Ceramicists: When Bees Taught Us About Clay is live now in Ceramics Now Magazine. Read it here: https://www.ceramicsnow.org/articles/the-first-ceramicists-ancient-clay-structures-built-by-bees/Discover how ground-nesting bees have been master ceramicists for 100 million years—long before humans learned to work with clay. In this episode, Kelly Parks explores recently discovered 20,000-year-old fossilized bee nests found in a Dominican cave, revealing how native bees select materials, manage moisture, and engineer durable clay structures. Learn what Indigenous communities have always known about the bee-clay connection, plus practical tips for supporting ground-nesting pollinators in your garden. Perfect for nature lovers, gardeners, ceramic artists, and anyone curious about biomimicry and sustainable craft practices.#CeramicsNow #CeramicsNowMagazine #PublishedArtist #CeramicsCommunity #ArtPublication #NativeBees #Pollinators #GroundNestingBees #PollinatorConservation #SaveTheBees #Ceramics #Pottery #ClayArt #Biomimicry #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousWisdom #SustainableArt #NatureEducation #BeeFacts #Paquime #Ancients #Incas #Aztecs #Secretpollinators | — | ||||||
| 2/26/26 |  No Bumble Bees, No Hatch Chile: The $60 Billion Pepper Secret | Dedicated to the Hatch chile pepper farmers of New Mexico and the Chihuahua desert region of Mexico. My grandmother Susie Parks was a national heroine of the 1916 Pancho Villa raid on Columbus, New Mexico — my roots in this desert go deep, and so does this story.Every pepper on Earth — Hatch green chiles, jalapeños, bell peppers, habaneros — hides its pollen inside sealed tubes that only buzz-pollinating bees can open. Honeybees can't do it. Remove the bees and you lose two-thirds of your pepper crop. The global pepper market is worth over $60 billion, and the bees behind it are declining. This is the story nobody at the Hatch Chile Festival is telling.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #HatchChile #HatchGreenChile #NMTrue #NoBumbleBeesNoHatchChile #ChilePeppers #BuzzPollination #BumbleBees #NativeBees #SaveTheBees #SolanaceaeFamily #JalapenoPeppers #BellPeppers #NewMexico #HatchChileFestival #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #SciComm #PollinatorConservation #FoodSecurity #GrowYourOwnFood #NewEpisode #NewMexico #Chihuahua #LasCruces #NM #PepperFarmers #Mexico #farmers #ColumbusNewMexico #SusieParks #PanchoVillaRaid #HatchChile #NMSU #NewMexicoStateUniversity | — | ||||||
| 2/21/26 |  Your Avocado Toast Owes Everything to a Bumblebee! | An avocado tree produces a million flowers to make a handful of fruit — and each flower switches gender across two days. Honeybees don't even like the flowers. So who's actually pollinating your avocado toast? Meet the yellow-faced bumble bee, California's most common native bumble bee and the unsung star of avocado orchards, plus the ultra-green sweat bee, tiny carpenter bees, and hoverflies doing the real work. Your brunch has a secret pollination team - and they deserve the credit.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #AvocadoPollination #AvocadoToast #BumbleBees #YellowFacedBumbleBee #NativeBees #SaveTheBees #BeesOfInstagram #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #SciComm #PollinatorConservation #CaliforniaAgriculture #AvocadoFarming #WildPollinators #HoverFlies #SweatBees #InsectDecline #FoodSecurity #NewEpisode #avocado #farming #California | — | ||||||
| 2/14/26 |  Giant Fuzzy Bombers: Bumblebees Behind a $10 Billion Crop | One scientist called them "a monstrous, fluffy, ginger beast." Meet the giant bumble bees — the only pollinators that can buzz pollinate tomatoes, blueberries, Hatch green chiles, cranberries, and eggplant. Honeybees can't. No robot can. And these giants are vanishing — the American bumblebee has declined 90% in 20 years. In January 2026, U.S. Fish & Wildlife proposed a nationwide conservation plan covering 11 species. This episode covers the science, the $10+ billion at stake, and why nothing can replace them.Subscribe, share, and help spread the buzz.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #GiantFuzzyBombers #BumbleBees #BuzzPollination #NativeBees #SaveTheBees #PollinatorConservation #EndangeredSpecies #RustyPatchedBumbleBee #AmericanBumbleBee #HatchChile #HatchGreenChile #NMTrue #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #SciComm #InsectDecline #BeeTheChange #PollinatorsFeedAmerica #WildlifeConservation #BeesOfInstagram #GrowYourOwnFood #FoodSecurity #NewEpisode | — | ||||||
| 2/5/26 |  The Billion Dollar Chocolate Crisis! | Research published in January 2025 from Penn State revealed a shocking truth: flies, the world's second most important pollinators, are more vulnerable to climate change than bees—and that threatens chocolate, mangoes, and 72% of global food crops. But almost nobody noticed. Kelly breaks down the study everyone missed, explains why flies lose motor function at temperatures 2.3°C lower than bees, explores what this means for everything from alpine ecosystems to tropical cacao farms, and shares why this billion-dollar crisis isn't getting the attention it deserves.www.secretpollinators.com#ClimateChange #Pollinators #Flies #FlyPollinators #SaveTheFlies #Chocolate #ChocolateCrisis #Hoverflies #NativePollinators #ClimateEmergency #FoodSecurity #PollinatorConservation #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #FlyConservation #PollinatorClimateChange #ChocolateProduction #CacaoPollinators #AlpinePollinators #InsectDeclining #HoverflySyrphidae #Blowflies #PollinatorResearch #ClimateImpact #TemperatureTolerance #PennStateResearch #BreakingScience #NewResearch2025 #PollinatorScience #ClimateScience #EnvironmentalResearch | — | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  The Speed Demons: Sphinx Moths & Carpenter Bees | Think hummingbirds are the only speed demons visiting your flowers? Meet the actual fastest pollinators in North America - sphinx moths with wings that beat 85 times per second and carpenter bees that visit 5,000 flowers in a single day. In this episode, we explore the incredible physics-defying abilities of these turbocharged pollinators, from hover-flying moths with tongues longer than their bodies to vibrating bees that make your tomatoes possible. Discover why speed matters in pollination, learn which flowers attract these nighttime workers, and find out how you can support the pollinators moving too fast for most people to even notice. Your evening garden will never look the same again.www.secretpollinators.com#SecretPollinators #SphinxMoths #HawkMoths #HummingbirdMoths #CarpenterBees #BuzzPollination #NativePollinators #PollinatorConservation #WhiteLinedSphinxMoth #Sonication #TomatoPollinators #EveningGarden #TwilightPollinators #PollinatorGarden #SaveThePollinators #BeyondHoneybees #NativeBees #MothsOfInstagram #GardenPodcast #PollinatorEducation #UrbanGardening #BackyardEcology #NativePlants #PollinatorPlants #WildlifeGardening #ConservationPodcast #SciencePodcast #NaturePodcast #MontanaGardening #PollinatorSteward | — | ||||||
| 1/22/26 |  The Billion Dollar Lithium Crisis vs. Native Bees: Are Electric Cars Worth It? | Brazil's "Lithium Valley" is booming—and native stingless bees are disappearing. In March 2026, Brazil votes on whether to protect these ancient pollinators from mining operations. Kelly explores the uncomfortable conflict between electric vehicles and biodiversity, and asks: Are we trading one crisis for another?www.secretpollinators.com#GreenEnergy #LithiumMining #ElectricVehicles #ElectricCars #EVs #NativeBees #StinglessBees #Brazil #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #PollinatorConservation #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousRights #SustainableMining #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #BatteryRecycling #EnvironmentalImpact #GreenEnergyDilemma #DarkSideOfGreenEnergy #Tesla #NativePollinators | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 |  Secret Jurassic Pollinators in Your Garden | Discover the secret Jurassic-era pollinators working your garden right now! Tumbling flower beetles have been pollinating plants for 200 million years - long before bees even existed. Learn why these rice-sized acrobats with their dramatic "tumble and launch" defense move are essential pollinators for goldenrod, asters, and sunflowers. From ancient beetle pollination history to spotting them in your own garden, this episode reveals the original pollinators hiding in plain sight.www.secretpollinators.com: #TumblingFlowerBeetles #Mordellidae #BeetlePollinators #NativePollinators #SecretPollinators #PollinatorConservation #NativeBees #WildlifeBiology #GardenEcology #Biodiversity #BeneficialInsects #PollinatorGarden #NativePlants #Goldenrod #CompositeFlowers #InsectIdentification #Cantharophily #UrbanEcology #PollinatorEducation #SaveThePollinators #BackyardNature #InsectConservation #WildlifeGardening #NaturePodcast #SciencePodcast #EcologyPodcast | — | ||||||
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