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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.
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Clip Season 2 Episode 4 Length 09:58 Premiere: 07/16/25

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Vanishing Act
S2 E6 Length 55:39 Premiere Date 07/30/25

Dammed If You Do
S2 E5 Length 55:08 Premiere Date 07/23/25

The Honey Trap
S2 E4 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/16/25

Dressed to Kill
S2 E3 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/09/25

The Enemy of My Enemy
S2 E2 Length 55:13 Premiere Date 07/02/25

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S2 E1 Length 55:07 Premiere Date 06/25/25

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Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 07/16/25

Rusty-Patched Rescue: Saving America's Wild Bees
Clip Length 04:11 Premiere Date 07/16/25

The Secret Life of Squash Bees
Clip Length 09:58 Premiere Date 07/16/25

The Pollination Economy: Inside America's Bee Crisis
Clip Length 12:42 Premiere Date 07/16/25

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