Some people have a reason to truly fear bees, because they're allergic to bee stings. But everyone on the planet owes a debt to bees, because of the critical role they play in putting food on our tables.
They pollinate the crops that provide our food.
Dr. Gabriela Chavarria can probably recite bee benefits in her sleep; she is renowned as an expert on bees and other pollinators.
And she works at the National Forensics Laboratory run by the federal Fish and Wildlife Service in Ashland. She drops by the studio to take us deeper into the things we should know about pollinators.