We swat at them, but flying insects are actually essential to life as we know it. Host Krys Boyd talks with behavioral ecologists about wasps and bees, and a professor of animal sentience about flies to explore all the wonderful ways their tiny minds work and the positive impacts they have on our ecosystems — even as they sometimes annoy and gross us out.
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