The Real Reason Why All the Bees Are Dying
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Just started beekeeping March. Have 60 hives today. It’s costly and tedious work. Wish me luck better yet pray for the bees!!!
Good luck bro
Good luck!
Keep fighting the good fight!
Beekeeping is costly? I'd never guess. Always thought you just needed a piece of land with some flowers, some wood, a saw, hammer and nails to get started. Keeping in mind that the hardest part would be to actually convince bees to move in to the new luxury apartments.
Good luck
Thoughty: "Nobody likes insects anyway, right?"
AntsCanada, DarkDen, Exotics Lair etc. fans: *Slams fists on table* "YOU TAKE THAT BACK!"
omg you know them too?!
AntsCanada do be pretty sick tho
@@Seabass23 Gotta respect the dedication he has for his craft and passion.
Antscanada is greedy soy boi. More ants australia
And KB ANTS 😀
Everyone can help: If you have a little space on your balcony or in a garden: plant a few flowers, the more colorful, the better. It helps bees alot, especially in urban regions. It doesnt have to be that much, but every here and there a few flowers without pesticides and the bees will find a reliable source of food.
Amen
they should motivate people to plant more flowers instead of putting those stupid wind turbines and all up and lying that those things are gods gift that are going to save us, not there is something to save xD
Planting the flowers as you say isn’t that effective, particularly if you are in crop country, as the bees get directed at the hive on where to go for food, there’s a dance they do, flies do the majority of pollination of those sort of plants. Which it’s purely coincidental.
@Roland Grange are you blind? ALL of our pollinators are in trouble. Their used to be fields full of flowers of all kinds, grove of flowering trees, all sorts of blooming plants. Because we paved paradise, all of their food is gone, and unless we want them to completely die off and thereby WE starve to death, we need to do something. If it werent for the beekeepers we have, keeping the hives alive when there isnt enough food/flowers where they are based, then we would be in a lot more trouble than we are already, and you would be able to see better. Starvation is a heck of an eye opener.
I do that - I planted Jasmine plants in my urban balcony but bees are giving cold solders to my lil'plants. They only feed on flowers of a tree 3 feet away from my pots. Now I hate bees. I am taking it personal..hahaha
Also it doesn't take that much space to put up one or two honey bee hives. I put two hives up next to my carport. I just have a small lot and the bees never bother anyone. The only disadvantage is bee poop on my car. They are great fun to watch. The reason I decided to get some bees was because of the dramatic difference in bee population between now and when I was a child. If you live in a residential neighborhood and you don't have any neighbors with bees you probably won't have any buzzing around your lawn or garden.
When you drove in the 90s , the front of the car was filled with smashed insects... In 2020 you barly find dead insects on the screen or number plate.
Yeah. It hasn't been the same since yr 2000. Last time bees were commonplace was in 1999 in my experience. Summer of 99. Maybe summer of 00 then they fell off.
I would have agreed with you, until last week! You must live in a populated area, so do I. I drove across the state of Missouri after dark last week, and I had to pull over halfway through to clean the bug guts off my windshield so I could see. It sounded like pieces of pea gravel hitting my windshield, for hours. The front of my car and back of mirrors are so bad it's going to take a lot of work to get it all off. Regardless, there is a huge decrease in fireflies and bees. As a child, dancing around with the fireflies was a magical experience for me. 40 years ago (I'm 53), literal seas in the air of fireflies. I've felt guilty all these years for collecting them in jars, and ripping their tails off so I could smear it on my finger for a glowing ring. Feeling I've been responsible for their decline. There was just so many, and a child thinks it will last forever. Now, in the country, there's very few. In a populated area, almost none. I never see bees. Only wasps. The mosquitoes are worse than they've ever been in my area. I have to wear long sleeves and pants in my yard at 3pm. They don't wait till dusk and dark anymore. There's a definite shift, and I don't like it one bit. Something is wrong, and I insist it's the pesticides. I refuse to use any, preferring a more natural approach for the inside of my home only. I don't rid my yard of dandelions because it's one of the first flowers in spring for the bees. Sadly, my 25 yr old son uses pesticides profusely inside and out of his home, for ants. I've complained, but he doesn't understand because he hasn't witnessed the decrease like I have.
Well, that depends on where you live. Born and raised on a ranch in Cali here. We left the state almost 2 years ago due to the growing decline. Well meaning--I guess--pols and their minions here on the Pacific Coast destroyed our way of life in many rural ag areas. They just push and push, without understanding how they can affect the outcome of things negatively because of their lack of understanding, and are never satisfied. But they are so ignorant of the way most things really work. Especially for people living in rural areas that grow their food, process their dairy products for sale in stores, etc. Don't let big city pols blow smoke up your arse. Learn what it takes to feed the world so you can make informed decisions. Plant gardens with heritage seeds, and learn to save them. Add flowers for the bees and be careful of what you spray your flowering vegetables and plants with.
Ah yes, the good old days of disease-carrying, annoying swarms of insects any time you left a city. Boy, do I miss that.
Lmao, don't act as though this is somehow a bad thing. With the exception of bees, few other insects serve a real purpose beyond being food for birds and other small animals. If a few happen to go extinct, so be it. If anything, the world is better off, anyway.
Biodiversity for biodiversity's sake is an inconvenience to humans at best, and a very real threat to our continued existence at worst. A large portion of diseases, famines, car accidents, allergic reactions, and more could be gone in a matter of years if we took the time to kill off these useless species. When you weigh this against "bUt IsS a PrEtTy NaTuRe", the choice is clear.
@@jamesmoriarty3877 I've wondered if some GMO foods could have affected the bees, as well, since I've read some interviews of doctors who are reporting allergic reactions of some patients eating GMO foods. An example was a person with shellfish allergies eating a tomato that contained shellfish DNA that had been spliced with the tomato for some reason. They had no idea what was in it--it should have had a warning.
I encourage people to look into starting their own garden. We don't use any pesticides on ours, and only use heritage seeds because it does no good to save the others. You just end up with the root stock of whatever the hybrid plant is. So you have to keep buying the seeds. Not so with the heritage ones. We also plant flowers the bees and hummingbirds like and have plenty in our yard. We have bird feeders, and they also eat the pests. There's a lot you can do personally. It used to be common for people to plant a small garden in their yard to supplement their diet. But I think it's more crucial than ever because corporate farms are depleting the soil. So produce grown today only has about half of the nutritional value it had in the 50's. I also grow some worms for their castings to build up the soil. You can compost, as well. I have some squash that has just begun setting fruit where I had added a lot of these castings. I've never grown squash with leaves like those giant Elephant Ears before. I'm anxious to see how the squash does. There's an urban farmer in LA that grows enough for his family, as well as selling about $30,000 of it to restaurants. He and his kids do this on a standard suburban lot. So, there are things people can do to help the bees and themselves. If enough do, it can have an impact. It's a growing movement in Cali where we first started this. There's a heritage seed festival in Santa Maria every year; if anyone is near there and can go. There might be in other states, if anyone is interested. Just start with a few pots on your patio. When my wife wanted me to dig up half our lawn for a garden, I thought she was nuts. But we had so much fun with it, and it was so beautiful because she mixed flowers in with the vegetables, that the next year I dug up more if the yard--LOL! I've been hooked ever since. She learned to can the produce we had in abundance and it just took off from there. We remind ourselves of our own grandparents now. They grew up with the victory gardens of WW2 and kept it up afterwards. They always had a small garden until they weren't physically able. I'm sure many others did, too.
*flower blooms*
dinosaur: *confused screaming*
*flairs frills and spits acid*
Thats incredibly racist
Then Lex begins screaming obnoxiously and a screaming match ensues with the T-rex as the flower exists.
Screaming for joy, now the dinosaur had something to give his girlfriend.
"Aliens get blamed for everything, dont they? No wonder they never visit."
Brilliant.
Im under the theory that they created man and are just ashamed of what we have become..
@ we are doing their dirty work !
Dragon 211 #LarryLawton
Lmao it’d be on sight
@@blakemarkland20 Those aren't aliens. They are called "parents".
Here in Switzerland, in June of this year, there will be a vote on whether or not pesticides should be completely banned in the future. I vote YES and I hope that more than 50% will do so.
Good intention… but unfortunately Switzerland is very small…. Convince your farmers and then whole Europe. Lead by example. It would be nice, if you could report back, please…
Kiss your food goodbye either way. I'm not sure you realise what food would be like without pesticides. I've seen organic produce. You get about a gram of edible vegetable matter per kilo and the rest is worms and such.
@@ceedee743 Switzerland is small in size, not in influence. I hope they vote it through!
@@Wqube I hope so. Where is swiss influence especially in the world?
@@ceedee743 Liechtenstein maybe?
9: 47 Thoughty2 "and You likely would not be able to get your hands of coffee". what DID YOU JUST SAY ???. 9:51Thoughty2 " Ill let that a s sink in for a moment, NO COFFEE" 9:52 I became a bee activist
Soooo bee keeping companies should build a lot of botanical flower gardens.
Let me get this straight: You comment something that is unrelated to the fact that I have two DANGEROUSLY DASHING girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest UA-camr ever, having two hot girlfriends is really incredible. Yet you did not mention that at all. I am quite disappointed, dear sja
@@AxxLAfriku damn you still out there? Wow... can we share your girlfriends one day?
Let's make petrol, tech, and paper companies build them.
@@AxxLAfriku meh; relationships are overrated.
260 from the 300 most polluted cities are in China or India..
While all of the 298 of the most polluted cities are located in Asia
Being a Beekeeper. Every wild bee hive I come across has no problems surviving. But the bees beekeeper keep have a hard time staying alive.
thats because the wild hives that have problems surviving usually die long before you find them ....
The problem is your cell phone and wifi. Get rid of your wireless devices, your bees will be fine.
@@Acetyl53 Stop believing disproven conspiracy theories
@@heyimanameheyimalastname Copying my other comment.
If solar radiation management which involves spraying microplastics and aluminum nanoparticles in the upper atmosphere, increased UV-B and UV-C on the surface, and microwave radiation are not included in the constellation of factors which is killing off most insects and higher insectivores, this cannot be dealt with. It's not just honey bees dying, all the insects are dying. There are less and less every year, and in turn, there are less insect consuming birds, spiders, amphibians, and so forth every year. This is a demonstrable statistical fact and has been progressing for over a decade. Honey bees were found to display dementia-like symptoms, and when dissected what did they find in their tissues? Aluminum deposits. Hm, funny thing.
@@Acetyl53 None of that has a single thing to do with wifi or cellphones, so your point is what exactly?
As a Beekeeper, born in the central valley of California (the most dense and diverse farming region in the world) I know why the bees are dying. Grass is wind-pollinated, (grass = Wheat, Corn, Oats, Rye, Barley no bees needed ) your Atkins diet joke and showing a combine harvesting wheat make no sense. As to the Bee decline, the largest single contributor is the Almond, and Almond milk crazy and the Almond industry of California. To understand this you have to understand the situation, The Almond orchards cover nearly 2 million acres, add other fruit and nut trees and you are closer to 6 million. Bees need flowers all spring and summer !! all 6 million acres of fruit and nut trees flower at roughly the same time and only for about 2 weeks. The rest of the year there is nothing for them to eat, trust me in these orchards there are no wildflowers. to pollinate this insanely huge amount of trees, (here is the important part) 100s of 1000s of beehives are imported for 1 month from ALL OVER THE GLOBE. Then they are all shipped back home as the food for the bees is gone. ( ironically may are sent to dairy farms with diverse pastures that can support the hives over the summer) The things killing the bees are the Varroa mite, the small hive beetle, and a whole host of other parasites and viruses, that the honey bee we use never had to deal with before. But thanks to importing hives from Asia, South America Africa, Australia, and Europe, every year starting in the early 2000s we now have every known bee parasite and virus in the USA, it's almost like the system was set up to spread disease from all around the world. 25 years ago the diseases a beekeeper had to worry about was a pretty short list, now it's unbelievable how many different and active issues we have to deal with. The blame like to get shifted to pesticide, but only to protect, the almonds, the almond industry is the very definition of unsustainable and artificial. want to save the bees, put down the almond milk and support a local dairy.
Agree!! But also remember that when pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are put together in cocktails for the orchards that this makes them toxic to insects. Alone they are generally not too bad. Look at alcohol and barbiturates. One by itself you're fine. Put them together and you're dead.
@PerfectBergers dude, if you don't like cheese, butter on your toast or cream in your coffee we have nothing to talk about
@PerfectBergers People like milk. Leave them alone. You don't want milk then don't drink it. Don't eat ice cream, yogurt, cheese, Kefir, etc.
NO MILK FOR YOU
@@DeminicusSCA My professional bee journals say different. I'll stick with their information
@Rainbow Capone he bees are only there in the spring for the two weeks of flowering, no one is spraying the orchard during that time, they just paid out the nose to have bees imported to pollinate the orchard and they're liable to The beekeeper during that time nobody is spraying during flowering.
Thoughty2 is the kind of person that will calmly tell you the world is ending and exactly why it is happening.
But then ask how your family is and where u went for vacation.
As I thought 😃
Don't feel bad. Im homeless 7 years and I have noticed that birds don't sing as much as before. Traffic now is so loud with everyone's screaming exhaust pipes that it smothers out the birds mating calls. I am constantly woken up at 2 to 4 am by birds trying to sing while traffic is at its minimum. Thoughty, could you make a video on this topic? I would greatly appreciate it.
Sorry to here that, but i am impressed you managed to watch this video, so well done
@@danmack7769 lol
@@danmack7769 He probably has a phone or something
Maybe look for work instead of youtube
@@chrise1491 its very easy for you to say that. Covid has slowed down even labor ready (day labor if you have forgotten). I lost my ID. Ive let go of anchors that held me down and if you dont know about this life then dont speak of it and help someone on the street.
"No coffee"
Now this is an avengers level threat
This is serious
After working at Tim Hortons, I now know the wrath of people lacking coffee. (Good luck for me though, I got a better job and I start on the 30th)
@@henkbarnard1553 agreed, nothing funny about this
or Vitamin C
For me it is all about the fruits and vegetables, without those our health would become a disaster very fast.
Idea: Get a GIS system to overlay maps of Bee vanishing and 1) GMO growth and 2)Pesticide usage 3) Roundup usage 4) Monoculture, etc.
GMO growth is unlikely to have something to do with this considering that they tested bees to see if the GMO crops had any negative effect on them and the answer was a big "No" at 200 decibels.
Pesticide usage and Roundup usage might be having an effect considering that we know that those things target bees as much as other harmful insects.
it's probably pesticides. farmers have a tendency of over-using fertilisers and pesticides cus "more is better right?"
It would be pesticides most likely since as we are told by this wonderful video it is weakening bees as a whole to parasites that are getting stronger globally. I don't find it hard to believe that the combination of the two is the problem. I would first say begin placing things to strengthen the immune systems and cut pesticides by around 35% and will see an increase in immune systems. More varied food sources will also help. Another solution killing the parasites off. With the methods, we now have for killing things like bugs to kill them all.
Thank you all for your generous comments.
You brushed over the varroa mite, but it could likely have been the single largest factor in CCD.
Shut up Jerry
I'm thinking it's only because of the weakened resistance to the parasites, caused by the pesticides. Without the pesticides, parasites shouldn't be a problem, they weren't before.
YUP! But why let science get in the way of a raging scary science 'story'.
lol. I expect better from Thoughty. Disappointed.
@@soconoha8495 I agree, it’s a complex issue involving multiple factors, people just like pinning it on one thing for some strange reason
Poor little Bee's. They never asked for the weight of the world to be put on them...
No it's the flowers fault for not even being able to procreate without the help of bees. Evolution was like nah we shall let someone else sort our problem when we could do something about it.
@@Evasive1 butterflies didn't want to be a part of it so they ate a shit ton of leaves
That sounds like some people. Do a really poor job so they don’t ask you again. That works best in government jobs and unions where they can’t get rid of you easily.
@@Evasive1 .
There's this thing called wind you know.
Cockroaches: Millions of years
Ants: Millions of years
Flies : Millions of years
Bees : Millions of years
Humans: One spray away from extinction.
cockroaches would probably outlive us.
@@AdmiralBison they will.
They will probably evolve to fill our niche.
@@lynnwood7205 unless they somehow manage to grow vertebrae, they won't get much larger before they start to asphyxiate and get crushed by their own weight.
@@randompheidoleminor3011 Mimicry where form would allow function.
@@lynnwood7205 there's no reason a roach would mimic a human. Much less when we're extinct. Other vertebrates would fill in our niche way sooner than what it would take a roach to even independently evolve a strong enough support, which thay won't because they have no reason to do so.
I am in my Mid 30s, when I was a Kid, between 30 and 20 years ago, the Bugs where thick, like going outside sometimes of the year would have a black cloud around your head, and than it just sort of stopped...
ive noticed this too. there used to be trees covered in green fly and hundreds of bees and wasps around where i grew up. now i see barely anything
rarely i see firefly
I used to struggle to keep the windshield and grill clean. Now, not so much.
i think you didnt grow your perception along with time LOL ,where i am from, the bees are more than ever now =))))
Lots of insecticides.
As someone who keeps bees on a small scale, I really appreciate you putting this out there. Life without the beautiful bees would seriously suck.
Except they aren't native nor are they good pollinators!
not only that, but it wouldn't BEE there. Lol. Seriously, though. Withough the bees, and moving them around to pollinate our crops, most humans on earth would starve to death. We would go extinct together. Thanks for taking care of them James
@@VoidWhereProhibited Large scale mono invasive "crops" need invasive bees to be pollinated....It help$$$ to feed the KraftMonsontoNestles garbage agriBusiness....small,regenerative agriculture requires no destruction of native pollinators or the use of petrochems....
@@morecomplex5233 i think u purposefully missed my entire point which was that without the bees most life on earth would die and with the beekeepers keeping the bees they do have alive and well they are keeping US alive and well, too. You know, system already in place, mass starvation before we can shift things to less monoculture and better quality again. But go ahead, use my comment to make yourself feel smarter by doing one of those "well, ACTUALLY.." moments that male EVERYONE groan.
@@VoidWhereProhibited We all hate invasive species.
Just look at Cuba. Their bee population is flourishing as always, their whole insect population is as divers as ever and as many as ever. And now ask yourself what is the difference between Cuba and the rest of the world?
Cuba’s agriculture is entirely organic. There are no pesticides or artificial fertilizers being used on the island since the American embargo of 1960.
While the rest of the world kept on poisoning the insect population. As usual humanity is looking for other explanations instead of admitting that it’s the result of our own doing.
Well said.
We are done for. We deserve it. The tragedy is that all the other inhabitants of Earth's biosphere do not.
No internet?
@@niconawilson6319:
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Tru man
The bees are leaving Earth and returning to their home planet. We need the doctor!
Is that a hitchickers guide to the galaxy reference?
@@mariolis no dr who
IF I could fly i world try..
"It's NOT ALL of the bees that are leaving the planet, that would be stupid. It's just the Queens" 😀👍
kaioken #JustMonika
There was nothing more relaxing to me than being in our back garden filled with flowers and flowering apple, plum and pear trees and watching the bees and bumblebees working hard, collecting pollen with their cute, fluffy bodies. Bees and bugs are such treasures. This is heartbreaking.
It’s not only bees, I don’t see anymore in my area ... moths, beetles,butterflies,crickets, even pesty bugs like house flies, mosquitoes are hardly seen....
When I was a kid you had to be real careful before you touch a flower to make sure there wasn’t a Bee on it. And everynight you would hear crickets loudly chirping you to sleep. You are right. I hardly see any insects of any type anymore. Or bats which feed off insects and would fill the sky at night.I live in an area surrounded by vineyards with a killer where they kill off bugs spraying pesticides and I think you’re killing the bees along with everything else. Between that and the oceans we are killing our planet. If the oceans die we die if the bees die we die.
yep and look at the flock's of birds they have diminished to next to nothing, large agriculture, and the cheapskate consumer doing us all in
_I'm not ready to explain my grandchildrens what bees are_
With our new 2021 disaster bundle,
U wont need to. Actually u wont be able to
In the future, you'll only need to explain about the birds, but that's the whole point, I guess.
@Peaceful Account it'll get better :)
@@jessejames1590 better in the perspective of a thiriller movie.
I don't think human be able to get grandchildren anyway..
At this point, I've learned more from British guys on UA-cam than I have from school
Even in my day school was more about socializing than learning. School could easily be more challenging and interesting.
I learned much more reading on my own in libraries and in college classes I chose.
Although I see college is useless now too. Too many courses in bullshit being mandatory. Much more expensive too.
Welcome to the resistance.
@@despinoza6205 Well said.
I have too and thats sad
This guy really doesnt know shit about the problem. Hes just pilling the NWO DRIBBLE. HERES BETTER INFO
ua-cam.com/play/PLBTPq_aYW18IbHMqHKLG9rXUu7grO-IJz.html
We've started doing " No Mow May " over here. Don't cut your lawn in may. Let the flowers grow in your lawn to give the bees some more to live on. Offcourse just the one month won't help all that much but is a sensabilisation kind of thing i guess. You're lawn doesn't always need to be freshly trimmed. Let nature live a little from time to time.
People are seeming to take to it, cities aswell, not mowning parks or the graspatches next to roads and what not.
"I miss bees" she thought, as she chewed the bland grain breakfast mush. "They were such a stimulating meal"
Spicy flies, we used to call 'em... added a nice crunch to our gruel.
We thought there was all this sciency stuff behind their disappearance, but it was just her eating all of them...
No wonder there were no bodies...
At least having no coffee might solve the whole Starbucks problem.
WHICH IS...???
@@JohnSmith-el9qn its existence
Starbucks shit coffee just my opinion
Than i will be extinct soon...
starbucks would find some alternative
Thoughty2 is like that one kid who is insanely good at telling campfire stories.
& V. Funny at that!!!!
And like most campfire stories are complete BULLSHIT!
@@beemanminnesota7683 lol don't be TOO hard on him: His research team make a few mistakes per video, but i'd say his material is over 90% correct, I wish someone would do a bit of checking, to catch the most glaring mistakes (such as "One day in the Cretaceous period, a flower appeared", lol... it was of course a much longer, more intricate process than that!!), but on the whole he presents stuff that is very much in line with modern scientific concensus and even fairly recent research material is often included.
He IS the kid insanely good at telling campfire stories 😂
@@perfectlypurepinkpompompan3467
It's more like 97 percent correct.
If he DOES get something wrong, it's the tiniest thing.
He of course didnt mean it popped up put the ground ready to populate the earth with its pollen. I'm guessing he put it like that because noone knows why they appeared.
Former hobbyist beekeeper here. This is an EXCELLENT summary of coevolution, CCD, and current fields of research. I will definitely be saving and sharing this video! Only suggestion? They’re pronounced Var-O-A mites, not varrio.
This video made me tear up. My fiance and I love bees. Thanks to COVID-19, we're currently separated by closed borders. Once I immigrate though, we have plans to start a garden and a bee hive. We're still doing the much-needed research on the subject, but it's something we're very much looking forward to.
Just speculation here.
Makes me wonder if taking those abandoned farms and just seed them with local wildflowers mix several fields can be done. If farmers can be paid to not grow crops why not local wildflowers instead? Just don’t use pesticides (etc.) there. Leaving fields fallow is a known farming practice.
Ok, so I’m being silly. Sorry.
The EU actually does pay farmers to plant flowers
no it's a good ideer there is a lot of government store invole probably that i'm not smart enough to talk about but all in all it's good corner piece for a solution
@@Plutonium2000 yes, and local we are doing the same. in villages and citys too i mean.
free seeds...plant them where ever you want!
Many areas of the UK doing this. It's termed "rewilding"
www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/rewilding-network
With the generation gap, new farmers “discovered” that planting odd plants (radishes?) renews the soil......their grandfathers knew this......duh.....the EPA uses several seasons of rotating plants to clear the ground of certain chemicals then continually harvest the saturated plants to destroy. Watched this being done and asked “ what the hey?” Here in NW Ohio near G’ma’s house. It’s odd but real, at least it was at one time.
*"Limp Stamen"*
I'm adding that to my mental list of insults.
Wasn't that a band Fred Durst thought up and then ruined?
Ha ha ha try the blue pills !
*awkward blink*
It starts in a joking, trivialising manner but has a sting in its tail (pun intended).
Yet another ecological crisis that is unfolding in our times.
Colony collapse has a correlation with a systemic pesticide usage.
Holy crap the end was kinda intense. That's the type of crap that we fear happening to us. It's a literal horror show for these guys.
What do you call a secretive Russian Bee?
The Cagey Bee.
😂
So he must bee called Vladimir Bee Putin. Екс-KГБ агент..
Nicholas cage approved
Wait that doesn’t make any se- ohhhhhhhhhhhh my god Good one!
Awesome jk mate 😁😁
I was thinking in pesticides since the beginning of the video. We must create organic orchards in our backyards and other alternatives for a more safety environment for the bees and us.
@Rainbow Capone I have the time. If you could see my backyard full of butterflies, carpenter bees, honey bees, syrphids, native pigeons and other species. You are sure, we need to dedicate time, and now is the time.
Memories from Childhood:
Street lanterns at night were absolutely swarmed with a shit ton of flying insects.
Sitting in my parents car while driving on a highway was always exciting, due to entire swarms of bugs getting smashed on the windshield, like short bursts of hail.
Huge swarms of may beetles.
All that is completely gone. I don't know about bees, but everyone a bit older already knows that there's an insect holocaust going on.
So the Black Mirror episode Hate in the Nation “Bee Episode” was not science fiction. It was sent from the future to warn us.
I think that presumption would apply to every episode of Black Mirror.
@@marcusjackson5837 So, if someone is murdered but their body is turned into fertilizer for crops that makes murder okay?
@@marcusjackson5837 None of that water ends up in reservoirs. It goes straight into the atmosphere. Where it accelerates the greenhouse effect, yes, H2O is a greenhouse gas.
Were you under the impression that gas power plant exhaust, and the flares on oil platforms, all trickled off to beautiful meadows in sparkling streams? Do you think Care Bears are born from car exhaust fumes?
@@greenaum , um...you do know the water cycle, right? Water vapor in the air collects into clouds, which, as they get denser, drop the water back to the ground via precipitation. Water doesn't just sit in the air and create global warming.
@@SgtSupaman Warmer air retains more water. So the temperature heats up slightly, and retains more water, heating up more, retaining more water, etc.
I love bees, I'm going to plant flowers and plants that bees like in my yard.
They also like jazz
It's a nice thing to do :)
14 hours ago on the top comment. Yet the video is 11mins old
Curious.....
Im going to plant bees in my backyard so that it may attract flowers
"They're turning the frickin bees gay"
Baby Jesus
One word to describe. Monsanto
and frontyards in suburb residential areas.
just boring grass, a plastik playhouse for the kids and consumerism as far as the eye can see. In the end It's the mindset pushed by people sitting in their ivorytower.
Lets plant flower and our own vegetables. build insect hotels. share awaresnes and set new standards, because the ones of brought to us by kapitalism are leading to certain extinction and i like live in a healthy world as everybody else too.
One Love
Yep.
I was looking for exact that comment. Bayer……
@@timjesse8432 it's capitalism that will save the bees and humans. smh
@@mrose4132 smh ?? You’re talking irony? Or are you for real? Capitalism is the worst. It doesn’t care for anyone but the narcissistic ones.
.... I love it when you're trying to code complex instructions and new functions develop by themselves.......
It's interesting how people continuously talk about transitional evolution like it's some kind of metaphysical entity able to make choices.
Correcting Thoughty2: Yes, cell phones and other devices that produce electromagnetic fields also contribute to bee extinction, because bees use electromagnetic field of the earth to navigate. Imagine trying to get somewhere using compass, but being surrounded by large electromagnets.
Wind farms
It's happening in every country that are using genetically altered crops
@@unclebo5672 Absolutely they have bread seed out of so much of our natural vegetation . So many plants that I have propagated throughout the years are no longer available and honestly unheard of .
Correction2: More like an add, than a "correction".
@Alec Alberti dude you need to understand something. the people that have money they're going to redirect you to following a symptom or a cause that has no scientific proof.to be able to be back up scientifically . example A is electromagnetic field. Sample B is the dying off of bees. Therefore an argument can be constructed in a societal debate. In actuality the main cause of this epidemic has been well documented by independent scientists which has been the result of genetically engineered crops that were roundup-resistant being banned in Britain Germany Scotland Italy turkey and there's a couple of other countries I just can't remember off hand. It's okay to wonder but ignorance is not an excuse microwaves have nothing to do with electromagnetic fields get an education
The moment Thoughty2 discusses ‘diversity/variety’ in human nutrition and relates it to the same needs as bees food requirements [ an argument against monocultures/farming ] , I just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU for making this video because I was shouting at the screen like a nutter thinking ‘This guy , he get’s it ! ‘ , at least I am not the only one that sees this issue . 🧐🇬🇧🤔🤝👍🏻❤️
This is also why uneducated vegans are so sickly.
They don't understand that they have to replace the things they are giving up with something equivalent.
You can't just eat nothing but Doritos and Mountain Dew and call yourself a vegan.
@@chaosmastermind Ok, french fries and beer? I'm kidding btw
Ever since I was a teeny tiny little boy we had a tree right beside the house that at least hundreds of honey bees lived in like there was an insane amount of them, and we don’t understand how the tree is still standing because they made the entire tree completely hollow, including what we can see of the roots and all the branches too! We didn’t have a problem with them, honey bees are nice just don’t piss them off or scare them (I have been stung quite a few times unfortunately usually when cutting the grass lol). About a few years ago in the winter it randomly got warm and sunny out, so the bees came out early. The snow and cold weather came back out of nowhere and killed them all... all of their bodies were on top of the snow right outside their entrance to the tree. There was just few left but I guess they died off or went somewhere else
Thoroughly enjoy 42s blending of humor, sarcasm, sexual innuendo, the macabre so often brilliantly sprinkled thought-out his narration .
"Do we actually know anything?"
Nope.
“NO COFFEE!”
I might as well just ring down the curtain and join the Choir Invisible...
💀
Great video! Next you should do a video on how commercial and hobby bee keepers are treating bees for varroa and populating week bees. I am a hobby bee keeper. Completely treatment free. Trying my best to keep a strong line of hygienic bees.
I didn’t give a 🦆 until I read, NO COFFEE! This is a god damn emergency people.
No coffee or chocolate
Wait I came late to the party! WHAT! "NO COFFEE!"
“Wingman”. Touché. Bees are smart. They’re not moving for no reason. We also know why they’re dying. It’s not a mystery.
It's disappointing that chemical companies don't give a crap about the environment, only about money.... I can only hope that the bees pull through and we're able to get our shit together and help them along.
It isn't only the chemical companies. It is also the farmers and possibly even the bee keepers. As long as farmers buy the pesticides, they will be produced. Should they stop buying them, due to finding more ecological methods of keeping crops safe from pests or by asking to pay for a more pollinator friendly pesticide, the problem might solve itself. For that, however, you'd have to also involve the consumer, that would have to be asking for that and consider additional factors like food supply safety (both short and long term).
As with many matters, once you start to look at a problem that, on the surface of it, would seem simple to solve, doesn't become so simple to solve anymore.
It's the consumer that buys it is the problem, not the companies. Companies go where the money is, the money comes from the consumer. And well, the consumer tends to be cheap, which forces companies to be cheap to give cheap product.
@@Schnittertm1 so the main culprit falls to greed, human greed, and stupidity, and/or ignorance (yes those 2 are different)
@@relo999 yeah consumer buys but it's the company that decides what the consumer can buy. People buys what is readily available and money is just a factor. Company goes to where money goes? Of course you have to take into account that the prices are also decided by the company not the consumers, we know that these prices varies depending on costs incurred to make the product but you also have to take into consideration that companies also look more into "Profits" and not to mention that you should also consider company workers are also consumers. Considering being consumers means especially those that have families means more mouths to feed hence increase in population then goes increase in demands. And don't forget those company owners too greedy for profits. So this is not linked to the consumers as this should be addressed to the companies and business involved because they are the one who decides what they present to the market to earn a profit and they are the one who decides what development they should take into their businesses using the profits they earn.
@@thelucondrix391 yes that is correct. Human greed and ignorance is the main culprit.
If you are like most people, you have not even noticed the complete lack of bugs in the last 10 to 20 years. Along with the lack of bats, it makes no sense. There should be an over abundance of insects but there isn't.
If you are over 40 years of age then you will remember how thick the moths and other insects used to get around porch lights at night.
All the bugs are gone. They are the bottom of the food chain. Without them we are pretty much screwed.
I have to admit I love watching your videos and more people definitely need to watch it not only for the information but for the quality and enjoyment so keep up the good work
I moved to the town in which I live in 1973. There were severel farms in town. Many in my neighborhood. They are all house lots with lawns now. Not much for bees to live on. I let my lawn grow and do not suppress "weeds" or wild flowers so the insects and other critters have a source of food. My land is 1.5 acres though and hardly makes up for the hundreds of acres of lost farm land.
Sounds like almond farmers should plant various flower types around and between their groves.
My guess would be they don't want that, as it would distract the bees from pollinating the almond trees. Then they would need even more bees.
I have no idea how valuable the almond honey is, as it is not common around here, but if it's expensive, beekeepers might not want other flowers in the mix either.
In the end, it's about the money. This could be fixed by state regulations, but if the almond industry is so big, they probably have enough lobbying power to stop that from happening.
@@darktoranaga OP's solution sounded so hopeful. Then reality hit with your reply. And you are probably right :-(
Yep
The apiarists should be doing that around the home hives.
This solution is too simple and too easy to do. So, it will never happen.
I'm really sad watching this video. it gives me a headache, but on the other hand, I'm really glad to watch it cause I learn something new.
Cell phone antennas are stressing the bees. In rare places where there is no cell signal, bees flourish.
So Im hearing Lead-lined Bee sanctuaries should become a regular thing across the country?
Lead lined Apiaries as well then...
Actually lead lined apiaries would probably be a good solution for that all things considered
Being a beekeeper for 45 years the biggest change I have seen is the queens are now chosen by man. So I leave 4/5 queens in each Nuc so the bees can choose their own queen. But the next problem comes when they get mated with the poor drones that are out their. Only 50% percent make it into the next year. I love the way you explain thing to you listeners so down to earth and you do make people think. So enjoy you look at the world.
Honeybees aren't in any danger. If you're losing 50% of your hives you need to improve your beekeeping practices rather than blame it on the queen too.
Our local beekeeper said that most of the hive abandonments were found to be caused my mites. I've looked it up and the information is out there, I just don't understand why it's never presented in videos or articles. Wonder you're take on it?
A similar thing is occuring with salmon
@@criteecgaming ,
Yup beekeepers have spread pests like varroa and diseases around the world.
Many beekeepers don't look after their colonies in a way that they should to manage these new problems.
Unfortunately honeybees mismanaged with poor beekeeping can spread these pests and disease to wild bees as well.
I had seen a report where a scientist was cutting into bees and he found micro aluminum inside of them . He accidentally realized these conspiracy people are actually right about planes spraying it high up in the atmosphere. He even found the bill for geo engineering and spraying it in the United States to " stop global warming " . He found it is actually driving the poor bees insane from aluminum poisoning.
Bees be like "If we die, we're taking you out with us."
Which is quite fair now isn't it? How is it that humans are so ignorant of these bizarre and beautiful insects? How can we be so selfish to not see they are empathic? They'll be chill, if you'd control yourself and that panic you call fear. They're very curious things. For a feminine creature for the most part, the drone/male is perhaps the most interesting male of all living on Earth, for his task is harder than most imagine, and the entire thing relying on his success alone.
@@alecfleming373 Yeah maybe I don't get why people freak out like other people when I see a bee because I've never been stung, but I think I've never been stung because I don't freak out when I see a bee. If you leave them be, they'll leave you be. They're much to busy ensuring making sure the queen stays nice and fat to have to deal with humans and their phobias. I've even accidentally closed my hand on a bee before. Even crushed it a little. Still didn't sting me. I just opened my hand back up and it went back to whatever it was doing before. So for those that have been stung I ask what were you doing exactly to make a bee want to sting you?
@@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522 Terror, that is all. I sware, they are basic in the sense they feel and act on what is around them. Very sensitive things. But like you, once I stopped being scared, never stung again.
@Babyhowdy233 -- so you think that humans and animals would survive quite nicely. Where would you get your vitamin C to stave off scurvy then?
Not really
Paul Stametts. That man is a wizard. He figured out a natural solution to many of these issues.
Please No, Not my Brussels Sprout's; I love Brussels Sprouts... Seriously, I really do! Especially during the holidays.
hey Thoughty2, we need a video about pesticides and their commercial applications in the food industry :)
99% of the comments: hahaha, 1% oh well I will die soon
5g anyone . bees and honey are the two best thing.
He's turning into his final form. That mustache and suspenders will be his granddad look.
That last bit with you coming out of the side of the screen reminded me of MKII. "Toasty~!"
"Someone pointed out that the acronym was rather problematic". LOL.
You had me at "no coffee". We have to do something!
chocolate relies on 1 single pollinator and they're losing habitat too.
@@Azurath100 I enjoy chocolate, but I don't need it to survive
@@calimerohnir3311 technically you don't need coffee either, but it does get rid of the option for mocaccino, cafe mocha, etc.
@@Azurath100 I don't need it on a strictly biological level, but since I'd lose my job without it it's pretty much a distinction without a difference
I'm sorry, but this joke isn't funny. That's the whole goddamn problem with you people.
I think Neonicotinoid (a family of Pesticides ) are an important part of the dying of bees, especially wild bees. Also the monocultures in Agriculture, that have large amounts of flowers in a very short period.
So if you want to do something, do not pave ypur garden, plant loads of different flowering plants.
I'm ipressed how you can look more and more like a grampa every time I randomly watch this channel
People: “I want to help the earth by protecting the bees”
Also people: *kills every bee that comes close to them out of fear
Edit: wow, lots of likes, thanks I guess. Also, can none of you take a fucking joke? (Insert word to express exasperation here)
Bees land in my pool to drink water. The ones that get rolled by the current i save with a skimmer.
I agree, & I don't understand it.
I don't even kill bees that sting me.
That'd be like beating the snot out a child for stepping on your toe.
Just stupid.
Not all.....but we do have killer bees here where I live and my son's troop has been swarmed....so the fear isn't unfounded.
Depends on what kind of Bee.
They die anyway after the first sting.
6:18 How in god's name did you get stock footage of a beekeeper smiling and then frowning for a second. That is so specific.
This is a good question that I wish I hadn't read because seriously wtf
I scrolled a bit just to find this comment
well caught!! wow.. another thing to obsess over when I really need to sleep..
Thanks..
I hate you.
He made an adjustment on the script because he found a funny stock video..
08:33 "There is an imposter among us"
My father was hired to solve this very problem. He found that it was neonicatines in the pesticides. However the lobbyists for the much larger "more important" farmers, corn, dairy, ect. (monolithic crops) are FAR more powerful. Also the almond, apple, orange growers use the same pesticides on their crops. The pesticides remain in the soil and are also coming through flowering plants in adjacent fields from run off after it rains.
Veroa mites have always been a problem but manageable. However once the colony has been poisoned it is virtually impossible for them to fight off fungus and parasites. However the likely hood of anything being done is about a billion to 1, because the other farmers have to produce food at such volumes to even pay their bills.
Bees love my property. I use no pesticides and have lots of flowers or flowering shrubs.
They pollenize my fruit trees and I get along with them great. I can't remember a single time that I have ever been stung by them in the past 30 years that I've been the property owner and I usually spend several hours per day gardening in my yard.
I get a good amount of fresh food from my yard too.We have a mutualistic symbiosis.
Ugh, I’m so sick of everything being so dystopian and hopeless all the time.
accept is pussy, black pill is the key to life. Nihilism is life !
@@K87jk what the hell are you talking about, fix your damn comment I can't understand what the hell you're talking about.
@@ExplosiveLandmine i agree he should fix his comment
Just become a doomsday prepper. They got it right: don't take life as you know it for granted. Be ready to fend for yourself.
I agree...sort of. I think much of what the "mainstream media outlets" (re: pretty much any news agency on TV or in print) say is either sensationalized at best, or outright lies at worst. "Bees are Declining in Number" doesn't get the clicks...but "Bees Will Bee Ex-STINGt Soon" gets more, and "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!" gets the most.
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Of all the current 'things' going on...C19, Rapid Climate Change, Dystopian 1984-esque American Election, etc... the one that gets me the most riled up and most 'concerned': Bee's. If Bee's go...we ALL go. If we get global flooding and a global pandemic with a 50% kill rate...we have a chance. No bee's though? All that other stuff won't matter at all.
One thing that appears like it might be missing is hybridization.. Hybridization changes the chemistry of the plants. It's why roses no longer have any, or at least much, smell. The changing of the chemistry would seemingly change the attractiveness of the plants to bees and maybe even the usefulness. While the other things mentioned in the video have come along at the same rate as the bee decline, so has hybridization. If it hasn't been considered, maybe it should be.
I haven't seen a single bee this year, last two years there have only been a few on the things in the yard that they once flocked too.
"solving the bee genocide issue isn't rocket science, which is lucky because most of the scientists working on the problem are entomologists" 😂😂😂🙏🙏
LMAO ...
And almost all of those scientist get their funding from Bayer or Monsatan which is now owned by Bayer. Neonics that are used in this country are banned in the Country of origin, that being Switzerland. They are also banned in Germany, Bayer's home Country. Only America allows the outright poisoning of it's population through the food they eat.
He definitely has a Great sense of humor!
@@beemanminnesota7683 So very Sad!
And, oddly it has been solved by a Mycologist - Paul Stamets. Seriously... he discovered the bees eat the fungal mycelium for antibiotics and created a product to feed the bees that dramatically reduces and often cures diseased hives. real shit.
Seriously, this has been a massive problem...and it's been going on since early 2000s and got way worse over the years in southern california. I used to go to the beach and wonder why there was a dying bee on the coastline right near the waves every like 3 steos I took. Something was messing with their navigation systems (pesticides, herbicides, and whatever other chemicals are being used). I literally have watched bees in my yard where there are like half of them are just "fucked up," in a way that is hard to describe. It's like they are drunk and will walk around on a leaf next to a flower trying to drink it for a looooonnngg time. I see dead bees all the time. I used to play around in southern california in the early 90s as a 4-7 year old and collect bugs. Bumblebees and bees were everywhere near any flowering plant. I rarely saw a dead or dying one. I was always amazed at how much insect activity there was as a child. Now, when I grow native milkweed species as a butterfly garden for the monarchs, hell, 95% of the caterpillars don't make it to adulthood due to the myriad of diseases and parasites that NEVER were a problem in the past. Just the flies that lay their eggs on the caterpillars that eventually cause them to explode with 2-4 maggots coming out are enough to kill most of the caterpillars, and there are all sorts of other parasites, spores (OE), bacterial, and viral problems they have to try to fight to survive. Even the milkweed plants struggle to grow as they are getting killed by bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases, making them unappealing to the parent butterflies to even bother to lay their eggs on them. This is happening with orange trees, birch trees, and complete death of all plum trees in my yard. There are a lot of introduced pests and species that are greatly affecting the entire ecosystem. I blame the farmers using herbacides and pesticides for all this....they created super-weeds and super-pests, and globalism does the rest when pests are introduced. Just wait until that orange yellowing disease from asia kills off all our orange trees. Maybe, someone will pay attention because I've lost a blood orange and a grapefruit tree to it. Of course, the Asian Satsuma mandarin tree in my yard which is also grafted to another variety is mostly fine, but plagued with mold and deformed new leaf growth. We will lose our bananas due to panama disease, just like we lost big mikes (my dad says they were so good). And, like thoughty said, the studies from Germany were disturbing. It's definitely humans.
I live in SoCal and see so many dead bees. Moved out here from OH last year, and all the dead/dying bees I saw on the sidewalk were one of the first things I noticed about CA. Incredibly sad.
This is sad, and you are right, it's the result of.humans who have no respect for this biosphere we live in and no respect for the species that feed us.
Cell phone towers and cell phones cause birds to fly in circles even crashing into the ground and dying because they can't find their way back from south to north and north to south because they have a mini magnet in their brains to help them tell where they are during migration the same thing happens to the bees and they can't find their way back to the bee hive also the whales and dolphins to beach themselves because of the sonar and radar signals used by the ships and the military also the Wi-Fi is cause of forests to dry out cooking the trees from inside out. Also microwave signals cause heating up the system. Also look up D.E.W direct energy weapon and what that is causing. Besides of pesticides and herbicides and chemical FERTILIZER and drugs in the waters. Stop the madness people SHEESH no sense or ability to sense. It's the truth about things.
I love Symbiotic relationships and i wish that us humans could one day operate in such a manner on this planet and universe. The people of Iceland living off of the natural geological heat and steam energy i think is the closest form of that type of living we have yet discovered.
ok it brought me way to much enjoyment from the fact that plant do be chattin about that flamboyant flower
I am so glad that someone recommended this video to me. It's such an excellent introduction to what's going on with bees and the issues facing them, largely due to the people that keep them. There is so much that we still don't know and we need to dramatically change what we're doing, or how we're doing it. Thank you many times over, I've subbed and will be looking forward to more. I hope we all can learn to work in harmony with nature and refuse to damage the delicate world eco-system.
I agree with the sentiment, but the world eco-system isn't delicate at all, it's very robust. Asteroid impacts, Tsunamis, Volcanic eruptions and constantly into and out of Ice Ages.
Fred being an awesome beekeeper and teacher knows what he is talking about also ;)
Well just like most people on this topic honey bees are the that are dieing not the 20,000 other bee wait 19,999 other bees and just like earth worms there not from most country's like my own us of a we were doing just fine til Spanish brought there bees here so watch film theory about this topic
Most of this video is BULLSHIT! What's killing the bees is not the one's that keep them, as there has been an annual migration of honeybees moving to California for over 75 years. The EPA truthfully said in 1975 when neonicotinoids were first invented, that if this pesticide is allowed in America all the bees would die and also all the fish in the rivers. Yes this pesticide was banned in America since 1975, but only when Monsatan took control of the EPA did this get reversed, in 1999 under the dead Criminal George Bush. Monsatan convinced Bush to fire the board members that opposed this pesticide, and install ones that approved the pesticide, see the criminal in action here, in dereg business ua-cam.com/video/HxtItwi6A_Y/v-deo.html . You can see the complete video under the name "The World According To Monsanto".
BTW this pesticide never could get approved as a bee safe pesticide even though Monsatan tried and failed 3 times. In 2016 there was a Federal Judge that banned this crap after a 4 year court battle. But the lying ass holes just come out with a new pesticide under a different name! EPA is not an environmental protection agency they know exactly what is killing the bees.
FYI the beekeepers dealt with the varoa mite for over 50 years and was never a problem until around 2000, but the real problem started in 2007 when GMO's took over 90% of the soy and corn market.
If you want the real truth do a web search for Tom's Corner in Boulder Colorado, he has saved documents that will prove my point. You can read for your self what the EPA scientists really think of neonicotinoids, as Tom has saved on his web page a 100 page document all about this pesticide, from the EPA scientists. You should also know this pesticide acts as a nerve agent on the insects and is highly water soluble, the USGS has already found it in many wells in the Midwest. So it's not just affecting the honey bees but also human and no one knows it, is this pesticide the cause of this new so called disease, Acute flaccid myelitis? They call it a disease but it's a nerve disorder the word myelitis points to the nervous system. Very well could be pesticide poisoning from the processed foods we eat.
Just so you know the truth on the corrupt EPA, every year Monsatan has thousands of test plot throughout the USA. Those plots test every thing from human genes in corn to fish and all kinds of insect and viruses. Those test plots don't get destroyed but get combined and used for animal feed or what ever it is being sold for at the time.
What will save us from these evils is regenerative agriculture, look it up and start demanding food be grown this way, General Mills believes it as they now have a big sign as you walk into there Minneapolis headquarters, "The future is Regenerative Agriculture", also watch Gabe
Brown right on UA-cam.
BTW before they ever trucked the bees to California they used to be loaded on trains, which was a much longer and rougher ride.
@@beemanminnesota7683 The green party who is in a coalition government with labour in New Zealand is pushing for regenerative agriculture. They are ridiculed by the farmers. Not all farmers. Some want to get into regenerative agriculture but since New Zealand is an agriculture mainly economy, the farmers have a large sway of who can get into government. Labour and the greens were voted in for the second term but the resistance is great to make progress. If they cannot make progress the majority will vote them out and National will likely gain power. National is very pro farmers and rich business people. We in New Zealand are seeing some of the problems as the USA where the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. It is not just because of AI technology. and how it is used. It is because of a mindset that favours those who are already rich, that started in the 1980's with trickle down theory of rich to poor, that although largely applied has worked the opposite way. It has worked against the environment and people.
I'm terrified of bees, but I don't want them to die- 😭
I used to be until I realized it was always wasps, hornets and horse flies biting and stinging me, never once a bee.
lol, same here
thank you monsanto
Me to I am crying 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😖😢
bees are cool to me, infact there the only insect id let land on me
Me too I like honey
So plant as many flowers as possible, anywhere, inbetween crop fields, sides of buildings, streets, unused fields, everywhere.
Thank you!! Keep teaching these things. We need all the info we can if we are going to keep this planet thriving. We are ment to use the resources we have on earth. But how we do that is the most important part.
Imagine everyone in the world going to the same place in the world to eat nothing but bread for 2 months. It would spread disease like wild fire. Now picture that place was Chernobyl
And, as if that wasn't bad enough, you have to cross a wide and shallow river full of schistosomiasis (snail parasites that infect your eyes) to get there.
Chernobyl has a remarkably healthy, rich and diverse wildlife these days...;-) But go to Mongolia where they do the mining for rare earth ore (dysprosium, erbium, neodymium etc.) for electric cars and wind turbines and "efficient" tech of all sorts - there you have scary radiation levels from uranium and thorium that's dumped as an unwanted by-product in open dump sites. That's an ongoing disaster of huge proportions the Chinese government has been hiding for years and that's actually driven by our demand for "green" tech...
dangggg ....
@@f.d.6667 It really comes down to money and greed. It always does.
And picture that place was giving out free unlimited cigarettes. Yeah pretty bleak. Not to mention that having Almonds really isn’t worth a mass bee extinction event. Couldn’t we just all agree to eat significantly less almonds?
Videos like this make me feel happy that I'm single, childless and old.
Come on...
Indeed.
Why?
must have a sad life. having children is the only decent thing i've done in my life. i feel sorry for you
filopat67 #JustMonika #FreeTaiwan #LarryLawton
I love your videos! Your accent just adds to my enjoyment. And your handlebar mustache (future videos, I believe) makes me want to buy you a beer.
Microwasps ought to be more widely used. They devour plant parasites AND some even pollinate to boot.
The issue with this of course is that many of the pollination bugs are in fact what is eating the plant in their larval form. So its important to maintain boundaries for where the wasps are deployed. Keep them quarantined to the fields, so that fresh pollinators can arrive with the new harvest and the wasps can eat the eggs as they're laid
I wish this guy was teaching at my school when I was a kid. He’s so entertaining and informative.
"Flowers [back then] were pretty ugly, and bees only went for cheerleaders."
🤣🤣
Just like people!
Someone should look into the 1200 ton insect killer called Windmill. 1200 just in Germany... the ton is insects not how heavy the windmill is.
No one has ever asked a bee how they feel. Now we are to suffer.
I'm from Europe and this happened to me last year... 90 out of 120 hives were completely empty I have absolutely no idea why they left it was not out of hunger I had around a ton of honey left in the frames that went to waste it was devestating... I managed to repopulate half of what I had throughout the year and if this happens this year too I might stop the beekeeping hobby that I've got
Don't ever stop
Albert Einstein have mention about the bee. “If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.” Albert Einstein
Then we need to look closer at Gates!
Yeah but human ingenuity solves crisis in nature if their survival is grim, and resources don't exist humans creates them
Human do not create but explore and changed it for own use. :)
@@Aki-kd9ud no resources don't exist we define by our value what they are
And where Albert now?
Here in Canada, it’s the end of summer and none of my flowers bloomed, most of my vegetables failed and I stayed away from insecticides.
The hip-hop analogy was awesome