Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from Orinmore in Glasgow, Scotland.
My name is Dan Shriver, and please welcome to the stage is Anna Czazinski, Andy Murray, and James Harkins.
And once again, we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Andrew Hunter Murray.
My fact this week is that, for just one penny, you can rent a bee for a month.
What are we doing here?
So, what would you do with one bee?
Well, you make friends, you take it on expeditions, you know.
So, as we mentioned before on this podcast, a lot of bees in America live on trucks,
and the reason that they do is because they move around the country all the time,
because they're rented out to pollinate crops, and they have this whole,
basically a tall schedule where they move from area to area, pollinating a new crop every few weeks.
And there's a massive crop, the Californian almond crop, almond, and that needs one and a half million bee hives,
which is a total of at least 30 billion bees, which is amazing.
They all arrive around the same time, and so they arrive, they pollinate the crop, and then they go.
And an American beekeeper, whose name is Randy Oliver, has calculated the cost of it,
and he worked out that the cost is one penny, one U.S.
penny, in fact, so a bit less than an English penny, per bee per month.