Episode 1 - Pollinators

By Ecosystems Mission Area

This episode's buzz is all about pollinators, the birds, bees, bats, beetles, and other animals that feed on pollen from plants and help bring about one in three bites of food to our plates. Pollinators are crucial contributors to our environment and society by enhancing plant diversity in wild lands and providing food for humans in agricultural settings. Some three-fourths of all native plants in the world require pollination by an animal, most often an insect, and most often a native bee.

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Episode 1 - Pollinators

Episode title: To Bee or Not to Bee

Release Date: February 8, 2019

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Interviewee: Steve Hilburger, USGS Wildlife Program Manager

Narrator: Marisa Lubeck, USGS Public Affairs Specialist

Producer: Marisa Lubeck, USGS Public Affairs Specialist

Music: The Green Hillside by Martin Fitzpatrick (used with permission).

Original artwork: Jeffrey Kemp

Bee noise licensed by Creative Commons and downloaded from freesound.org at https://freesound.org/s/333313/

More USGS science on Pollinators:

Honey Bee Helpers: It Takes a Village to Conserve a Colony
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - Pollinators Research

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