{"podcast":{"title":"Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't","slug":"crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480","podcast_index_feed_id":244480,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5634537/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/aabef98da4722f208d0d3b834538f52f.jpg","author":"Tony Santore","episode_count":289,"summary":"Why do some plants grow where they do? How can geology cause new plant species to evolve? Why are some plants pollinated by flies, some by bats, some by birds, and others by bees? How does a plant evolve to look like a rock? How can destroying lawns soothe the soul? This is a show about plants and plant habitat through the lens of natural selection and ecology, with a side of neurotic ranting, light humor, occasional profanity, & the perpetual search for the filthiest taqueria bathroom.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480"},"episode":{"title":"Native Bee Diversity w/ Krystle Hickman","slug":"native-bee-diversity-w-krystle-hickman","published_at":"2025-11-11T19:14:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480/native-bee-diversity-w-krystle-hickman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/native-bee-diversity-w-krystle-hickman--68526444","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68526444/krystle_hickman.mp3","summary":"Ad-Free episodes of the podcast are available on the Patreon at : www.patreon.com/Crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Krystle Hickman is a biologist, native bee researcher, and conservationist from Los Angeles, California and author of the book \"The ABCs of California's Native Bees\". In this 2-hour conversation we talk about how to identify bees to genus, different groups of native bees (IE longhorn bees, cactus bees, leaf cutter bees, sweat bees, Euglossine bees, and more), specialist relationships between native bees and native plants, how native bees could be utilized to pollinate human crops simply if farmers created hedgerows of native plants in between their fields, how honeybees reduce native bee species diversity as well as reducing fitness in native plants, how to get good macro photos and more.","meta_description":"Ad-Free episodes of the podcast are available on the Patreon at : www.patreon.com/Crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt Krystle Hickman is a biologist, native bee rese…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7889,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480/episodes/native-bee-diversity-w-krystle-hickman/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesn-t-244480/native-bee-diversity-w-krystle-hickman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}