Nick and Liam are back and this time they're talking about their favourite group of insects: the bees. Join them as they discuss bees origins, pollination, some cool facts about bees and answer some frequently asked questions.

Sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society.

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.

What are bees?

Wasps laying into aphids

Evolution of bees

Honeybee pollen basket

By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2, Link

Megachile Scopa

By Pollinator at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Bees are great pollinators

Electric Charges and bees

Bees improve the quality of crops

Hand pollination in China

UK bee species

Tree Bumblebee coming to the UK

Carpenter bees (the genus Xylocopa in the subfamily Xylocopinae)

Tawny Mining Bee

By ©entomart, Attribution, Link

Two Osmia bicornis mating (Male on Top, Female below)

By André Karwath aka Aka - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link

Red mason bee pulling a nail from a wall

Bee Declines (blog)

Bee Declines (paper)

Short haired Bumblebee reintroduction

Bumblebee conservation trust

Buglife

Immunotherapy in peanuts

One study looking at the effects of honey on hay-fever symptoms

Turns out bumblebees can fly

Slow motion insect flight