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# The Secret Life of Squash Bees
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/human-footprint/extras/the-secret-life-of-squash-bees-qgo12f/
- Published: 2025-07-08T16:15:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T18:48:14.000Z
- Description: Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Human Footprint, #ZZZ_Show_920c28e7-cc8d-4bd4-a6a1-1d54d80cf6c8, #geo-us, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_1fe7b84c-a2bb-4f15-96a2-99abbb50f870, #extra

Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a wild, solitary species with a deep evolutionary bond to agriculture. These high-speed pollinators rely solely on cultivated squash to survive, revealing how humans and bees have co-evolved for millennia — and what their survival means for the future of farming.