Hey, it's your old pal, Alley Ward, with another straight shooting episode of Alley Cheese.

Bees. Bees, man. I hear worried about him, aren't you?

Did not.

You've cradled a cup of warm tea, you've gazed out a window vacantly and thought,

the fuck are we gonna do about these fucking bees?

Well, first thing, let's get to know him a little better.

So, now I've wanted to do this episode for literally 12 years.

When I first came across a list of Alley Cheese, back in the day, this one was honestly the one I was most horny for.

I love insects, I've harbored a fantasy for decades that I will retire and become a very wrinkly old lady who wears cotton smocks

and lovingly tends to like 30,000 bee pets in her desert garden, trying to name each one of them a human name.

Speaking of loving admiration, I'd like to take time to stare at you like a grateful creep and look into your eyes and say,

thank you, Alley Gites, for rating and reviewing and also for leaving reviews on iTunes.

It helps so much. It lets the podcast get seen by other people and also, I'm very needy for feedback sometimes.

And I read every single one of your reviews.

Subspeciesci died, says, thank you, Alley. This podcast feels neat. I didn't even know I had before I found it.

Your edits are like the most relatable internal commentary and my Twitter feed has become so much less bleak and more full of squids.

Get those squids in your timelines, guys. Get them right in your eyeballs.

Okay, back to bees. So, is it mellatology, apology? There is controversy, which is it?

Okay, I didn't know what to title this because I didn't know what to call it.

So, apis, melifera or apis melifera, whatever, is the genus and species of the European honey bee.

The ones you think of commonly when someone says honey bee, but there are so many species of bees.

There are 20,000 species of bees. That's like if every seat in Madison Square Garden were filled with one species of bee,

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