The podcast episodes discuss the well-known issue of colony collapse disorder, which has caused widespread concern about declining bee populations in recent decades.

The first episode, Honey, We Saved the Bees, provides an overview of how the honeybee population in the United States has actually increased in recent years, despite the previous concerns around colony collapse disorder.

The second episode, 397) Rosamund Portus: A preemptive mourning of bee decline, offers historical context and background on the colony collapse disorder crisis, which brought attention to bee population declines in the mid-2000s.