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Human Footprint
The Secret Life of Squash Bees
Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a wild, solitary species with a deep evolutionary bond to agriculture. These high-speed pollinators rely solely on cultivated squash to survive, revealing how humans and bees have co-evolved for millennia — and what their survival means for the future of farming.