Do you believe in aliens. Life forms vastly different from humans and other animals, creatures with multiple legs and eyes, wings, tongues, and antenna thrice the length of their bodies. Well, they're here and they've lived in harmony with every previous generation of humans until now.These aliens are insects, bugs, creatures, or as we call them in South Africa, hos. But they are disappearing faster than we can discover them. Global insect populations are rapidly declining, bringing with it the six mass ext ...

[Music] 32 years ago, I fell in love with bees. It all started when I was an undergraduate. I took a class in beekeeping.The first day we went out to the bey yard for lab, we opened up a hive of honey bees and we pulled out the comb, it was covered with hundreds of little worker bees all moving around, all doing things. I didn't understand really what I was seeing, but I was struck in that moment with a profound sense of awe. I wanted to know more. I wanted to understand what they were doing.And certainly t ...