U.S. honey bee population reaches record high
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- In 2006, bees across the U.S. started dying rapidly. Now, the U.S. honey bee population is at an all-time high, according to the Census of Agriculture. Clay Bolt, manager of pollinator conservation for the World Wildlife Fund U.S., joins CBS News to explain what happened.
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Thank you for pointing out the importance of NATIVE bees to the broader ecosystem. Honey Bees are needed for industrial agriculture. Native bees are needed for life
Native Bees have been cross bread out of existence. Where I live in Commiefornia the native bees have totally disappeared for over 20 years that I've noticed. All the bees I see now are those European bees, almost totally black very little yellow and the H bees are totally gone if you know what they are.
i photograph native bees daily. "cross bread" - ha!
@@tired7140 This is nonsense. Native bees are completely different species. You can't "cross-breed" a yellow-faced bumble bee or a native miner bee with a european honeybee. That'd be like trying to breed a racoon with a ringtail coati
Bees are literally LIFE 🐝🐝🐝
Seeing a lot more Bees in Canada this Year, More in my backyard than other Years. My Veggies Thank them.
Thank you to the guy who goes out and counts each bee
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You’re welcome!
Don't be facetious!!
Beads?!?
Uh, no. That's not how it works.
I gave up part of my lawn for a wildflower garden. It attracts birds and bees, cheaper to maintain, and looks beautiful.
Me too🎉🎉🎉
Other than clover, what's another good one?
Never looked back don't miss mowing so trying to get rid of all my green parking lot🤣🤣 love all the new creatures popping up as I keep expanding.
@@J.o.e_K No, clover belongs to the lawn. No clover in the wildflower garden.
I bought 3-4 different packets of wildflower mixes, both annual and perennial. There are dozens of different flower species in them. Whichever likes the microclimate there survives and thrives.
@@juzoli Excellent, thank you.
Save the native bees!!!!!
They are bee-ing saved 😁😁
From what I can tell the general public is largely unaware of the the presence and importance of native bees. Entomologists, scientists, and any other related experts need to bring more awareness to this subject, and not just always talk primarily about honey bees.
It was exhausting
I lost count and had to restart 4 times
Xenophobic
I'm really glad they pivoted and talked about all pollinators and not just honeybees! Great interview!
Yeah, no kidding. Not enough attention on all pollinators
The headline is misleading. It should read: Decline in wild bee and pollinator species due to pesticides but increase in cultivated domesticated honeybees.
EXACTLY
Damn I was excited for a moment, I hate fake news
Thank you for the important context.
all the other bee species are important, not just honey bees
your probably wanna let in the wasps and hornets too stinger lover
@@dozedout8446 Maybe he is a W.A.S.P
So...all bees matter?
@@dozedout8446most species of wasp you can't even see and play a crucial role in ecosystems around the world.
Cool, but you seem to be missing the point of this video
This is commercialization of one variety of bee. Native pollinators are actually more important and what we should be measuring. We still have work to do on preventing chemical pollution and removing habitat around our country.
You didn’t even watch it
The (European) honey bee cannot pollinate many of our native north american plants. For instance squash and beans which was an important part of the native north american diet. (yes the native north americans DID have gardens).
Thankfully conservation programs are focused on the many native species, it’s just taking time for reporters and some listening to understand that.
Good you should work on helping the wild bee populations as they are especially important for pollination
I was going to bring this up too.
You two should work on this, plant some flowers around your house. If you have an apartment with a balcony, get a few flower pots and put them out there.
Why leave it up to others?
@@edrcozonokingeveryone needs to be a environmental steward in their local ecosystem.
I only get wild bees in my yard. I rarely see a honey bee.
I let a thistle grow to 6 feet tall in my backyard last year. It ended up LOADED with sweat bees. This year i'm letting several grow out. Love the little green sweat bees!!!!!!!!!!!
I discovered this the same way tooo🎉🎉🎉🎉
Sweat bees are flies that mimic bees to avoid predation. Still important pollinators, but not bees
@@Natediggetydog they have stingers, I’d say they’re bees.
@@johnblair8146 I might be thinking of a different bug, the ones I’ve seen don’t have stingers
Finally, some good news...
no.
Good news so long as you watched the video and do what you can. I’m worried you didn’t watch the video… 😬
Honey bees are invasive and compete with native bees. They are the ones that need our help.
Way to not watch the video😞
not fo0r the native bees, it isn't. these honeybees are european imports and invaders, and out compete all native species in the US. they are not the ones we need to save.
I’ve been planting native perennials! Also lots of milkweed for the Monarch butterflies!!!! Next up need to find what plants to help the fireflies…
I have a variety too... for fireflys seems to be not to disturb leaf/plant debris etc in early spring.. until its constantly above a certain temp... we compost the leaves or leave them in the garden beds.
we always have tons here.. its like twinkle lights all over the yard and in the trees. a mix of flowers helps the ecosystem. the more native plants or gardens the better. we also don't spray.
Native grasses and sedges are good for fireflies, I would also leave the leaves in some areas so they can overwinter!
No lawn pesticides. I don't use them and I am the only one that has lots of fireflies - trees are good too!
No honey bees for me. Local mason bees and leaf cutter bees only. No sting. I only have one nest right now, but I might expand.
I've been trying to get a couple of bumble bee homes going. No luck yet. :(
Those ones are better pollinators, people need to help increase those populations
Shoutout to the person counting each honey bee one by one
😅
Person is a hardcore entomologist!
😂
Ayyyyye
I discontinued my residential lawn treatments two years ago (too many chemical) and are planting lots of pollinator-friendly plants.
This is great news, but I love all the different bees who visit my yard, especially the cute bumblebees with their big fuzzy booties.
You did watch this right? The conservationist literally said that native wild bees are going down still. It’s just the domesticated food that is going up, which incidentally will decrease wild bees because of the expansion of the human project!
Your lucky the Bumble bees with the yellow stripe disappeared over 30 years ago where I live. All I see any more are the solid black ones except for in the Sierras.
@@tired7140 I'm in the midwest, I've seen more and more of the black ones also.
Awesome!! Was talking about this the other day with my wife. Havent seen honey bees in years and now this year ive seen hundreds in my yard alone. Its beautiful.
This is another reason to buy more organic stuff when grocery shopping. Less pesticide use isn’t just better for your health, it’s also helping the bees. It’s a win-win situation.
You realize some people do organic on some of their land and not organic on others. Its not gonna matter much
@@blablablaa14 I take your point, but the truth is that how much of a difference it makes is totally dependent on how much consumer demand there is for organic. If the demand is there, farmers will respond by shifting more and more land from non-organic crops. If that happens, that would ultimately help to bring down the price of organic with respect to non-organic. If organic foods become more affordable, that will help to drive even more demand. Pessimists will argue that a wholesale shift in buying habits will never happen because consumers are happy with the status quo, and I’ll admit that a big shift is unlikely, but that doesn’t mean that the dream is dead. :-)
It's almost more expensive which is usually the main factor for people buying groceries
@@blablablaa14 It matters greatly! I think if people knew that conventional food was poisoning them and causing cancer they would make the switch.
Save the trees,
Save the bees,
Save the whales,
Save those snails
Mocking conservation was one of George Carlin’s biggest L takes
I miss George so much.
Save the bears.
Everyone cares.
@@TerraStory225MYAhe more mocked that we are told what to care about
@@zkurtz21 You could argue that. But I've seen the bit. He was mocking our idea of "saving the earth". We cannot do that, which is true, but to argue that because 90% of all life is already extinct to begin with that we should just not care about other species vanishing when we are the primary cause of their decline just doesn't make sense. That's what he was kinda arguing there. We cannot save the planet, but we can preserve our own ecosystem.
I never thought I would be cheering for bees...but here I am.
Honey bees are smart and nice.
Honey bees are literally and invasive species.
Tell that to the "AFRICANIZED" honey bees (killerbees)!!!!!!
@@NC_BIGFOOT WRONG each bee is YOUS friend.
@@NC_BIGFOOT Their individual stings are no worse than the domestic honey bee. Their biggest danger is aggressive swarming.
I'm glad he talked about native bees. Honey bees are great and all, but I'm not sure they should be the #1 focus.
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 LOVE THOSE BEES
"as need bee" 😎
The bee surge sure has not happened in some areas. They suddenly disappeared several years ago and have not returned. I have walked open areas for decades and maintain organic bee plants myself that used to be loaded with bees. Both honey and the bumble bees were gone. I saw 2 bumblebees last year total in a huge lavender hedge. However, last week we saw 3 bumblebees and today there were several honeybees back at that lavender hedge, so I hope this is the beginning of a good bee comeback. I was alarmed the past few years as the lavender and jasmine used to be in motion with thousands of honey bees and dozens of bumblebees when I checked.
I've been seeing lots of bees this year on purple plants. Not sure if they were lavender but the bees sure love them.
Spraying the Chicago area for mosquitos destroyed a lot of beneficial bugs last year here. But, several of the not-so-beneficial pests did really well due to their predators being absent. I'm already noticing an increase in garden pests this year.
I’ve been seeing tons of bees in my suburban neighborhood. But I guess that yours and my experience is a case in point to the video’s argument: the plants in my neighborhood aren’t covered in pesticides, whereas the lavender fields probably are?
@@orangebeagle3068 north side of Chicago is paranoid about West Nile. text alerts go out when there are mosquitos testing positive and/or hospital cases. Trucks will spray up and down streets as well as the wetland/"wilderness preserve" areas. The promoters say it doesn't hurt bees but gardeners/keepers say otherwise.
Do you live near a farming area? If you do maybe somebody switched pesticides which has had a bad effect on the bees.
We have local bee keepers! They come over to snack, get some water on a hot day, we love them. I never spray. My neighbors do. I see a lot of them here in Clear Lake California......yeahhhhh!!
Honeybees were never in danger.... but all other bees are being destroyed by the honeybee itself.
Finally some truth. Honey bees were brought here from Europe.
Yes, honey bees are actually an invasive species.
You are nuts!
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Honeybees do not directly effect the populace of other bee species. To suggest they do is ridiculous. Humans are responsible for correcting their population levels.
Go touch some grass please.
Oh thank god
You didn't watch the video.
We need wild bees too, the honey bees are only one kind.
I’m grateful for this turn around!
diverse crops and less chemicals!!! I rely on wild bees. the weather is also very bad for them. this year was too cold for too long!!
I attribute this to homesteaders and "wannabe" homesteaders. FYI, of course bees are important to crop production in the USA, and generally good for the environment, but... Bees were not native to North America.
so we went from them being on the verge of extinction to all time high?
So goes the buzz.
Native bees are still not doing great.
Well that's what their lies are meant to do...keep us on that see saw of confusion. That way they can manipulate and social engineer humans. And it is NOT being done for our benefit.
lol apparently, almost think whenever you hear from them that the sky is falling it actually isn’t
@@zkurtz21 commercial honey bees are not native to north America
Good news!! We get to eat our veggies and fruits!!
Was slightly confused at first 3.8M bees is a staggeringly low number but to make things clear these are the estimated colonies. It's mentioned early the addition of 1 million colonies but they drop the use of the term colonies and replace it with the singular bees in the video.
Has anyone else noticed there's no insect splatters on windshields compared to years past?
No, I see them more often. Your username hints that you may live in the Southwest. Perhaps spring has not worked its way down to you yet. There are insects everywhere further up north.
That was not my experience driving across the US last year 😅 Your observation could be due to a decrease in insect population, but another factor to consider is vehicle speed. Did the speed limit change these past few years? Because the higher the speed, the higher the number of insect splatters.
Yes! When I was a kid, we had to clean the windshield if we drove for an hour or more at night. Not anymore, which is scary when you think about it. Our canary in a coal mine.
When I was a new driver back in the early 70s, my friends and I would have to often stop and wash the car windshield when we were out on Friday and Saturday nights. We just could not see out. That is not a problem today.
Now that you mention it yes, a lot fewer insects are smashing into the car windshield.
thanks for the reality check, because the head line had me feeling good
Haha
This is important to listen to the whole video! Thank you for your work and helping teach us!
I went from 5 hives to 10 this year.
Nobody cared about them much until we heard they were in trouble and now do things to prevent killing them accidentally
My yard went from 2 to 8 this year so far
I've gone from 0 to 3 so this is amazing where I am.
This is good news. I used to plant annual wild flowers for the bees, I love watching them pollinating my plants
My dad and uncle were beekeepers. They would lease their hives to orchards for pollination, but had to remove the hives before follow-up pesticides were sprayed.
Don't worry- Bee happy.
The landlord say your rent is late.
He may have to litigate...
Don't worry ...
@unclebadger597 Ain't got no place to lay your head ? Somebody came and took your bed ?
I can only think of Garfield the movie hearing that
I planted some flowers for native pollinators at a place I’m about to move to, and I noticed some native bees found it immediately! Not sure who was more excited, me or the bees!
Finally! A good story! Glad to see we can do something right in this country
This is not a good story. Watch the video. Honey Bee's bees sole purpose in this country is pollinating our crops. NATIVE wild bees are continuing to decline. We loose the Native bee's, catastrophic effects on our wildlife take place and human civilization as we know it perishes.
Yay the bees knees!
It's about time !! We NEED Good News !! Let's keep this trend going folks !!
Thanks to all beekeepers! I have been one for over 10 years myself. This is good news but we have to stay on top of it.
Before you mow your grass in the spring and fall, let it grow a foot tall.
You'd be surprised how many tiny little bee's you've never heard of will travel there for every sort of flower you didn't knew grew in the grass. It's a marvel every year at what kinds and how many creatures pop up.
grass is monoculture. does very little for bees, no mow may is if you have dandelions, spring bulb plants etc in your yard. most places will fine you for ft or so tall lawn grass. naturescaping, stepables, rain gardens, gardens are better than non native lawns. and require less water once established and less care too.
Wild bee populations continue to decline - how depressing. I’m glad to know the truth but the headline is confusing
Thank you for actually watching the video.
This year, in my garden, my ground based bee population has exploded. I left a small hill of loose dirt with NO mulch or vegetation and they have taken to the hill and created 100's of little hives. Please consider doing the same in your garden. Yes it's "unsightly" and you'll have to pull some weeds but it's worth it. Also, use Surround Kaolin Clay and Neem instead of insecticide. Use Neem Oil at night or early in the morning before bees wake up.
2 yrs. ago we were told half of honey bees were gone!
lol yup, the sky is falling!!!!
Glad you can read or pay attention it’s says in the USA not the world
good sign for humanity actually
We still need to protect all the pollinators, not just domesticated bees.
If only the price of honey would come down a bit.
I really like that we as humans quickly saw how important bees are. I used to hate them but when the campaign to save them started I really learned a lot about how important they are
i'm wondering if there could be an agreement with farmers for subsidies to support using bee friendly pesticide-plants and smells that deter bugs- for a percentage of crops along the bee migration paths just to builld up the population again.
Its not the honey bee population i'm worried about. It's the native bee species i'm worried about.
i just planted a ton of native wildflowers and set out a bee house. great news!
People should know why bees are important.
Half the people commenting didn’t watch the video 🤦🏻♂️
Right?!?! 🤦♂
this is good to hear with all the negativity going on, now if we can get the polar bears taken care of that'll bee amazinggg.
i was never allergic to bees, but lately i was diagnosed as allergic to them. truth is, the world doesn't want us around.
Ive been planting flowers around my house since I heard about this 20 years ago. Excercise does me good. Another good thing people can do is have a pond . A pond can be one of those big plastic tubs or a big ceramic urn. Put some rice fish or white cloud minnows even guppies in there. Misquitos will search out places of water to lay their eggs and when they lay them in your pond they will become fish food. When the weather starts to turn cold net them out and put them in an aquarium indoors for the winter.
Glad he mentioned the mighty bubble 🐝 they are usually forgotten in all this!
This was the collective effort of the people who put in the work and cared. People as a census has nothing to do with the bee revival.
The only good news I've read in 20 years
Now let's save all the other pollinators besides honeybees.
Explains why my backyard is lit up with wasp, honey bees , and bumblebees
As far as I can tell, all my bees are wild ones. I make sure to keep habitat and let plants mature and flower and go to seed, etc. Population of bees and wasps seems to vary year to year. I thought for me, the last couple years was a bit low for both. This year seems to be a bumper year for both, so it is good to see.
This is a little tip, told to me by a pest control guy. We get Deer and Dog Ticks every year. Spray Sevin around all the Trees, Buildings and any uprights to Two Feet up. Also edge any Pavement one foot out. Only Spray at Dusk, and you don’t need to spray Flowering Bushes except at the base. Also you don’t need to Spray the entire Lawn. This will greatly cut down on killing bees.
Funny thing is I live in a rural area. I didn't notice anything different during the supposed bee apocalypse, and don't now either.
It's the bumble bees that need to be saved
Pesticides, herbicides etc are not only killing plants and insects, they are killing the animals and humans as well. Huge changes need to happen
If you want ethical changes then go physically catch your meat and plant food. It's unethical to obtain them with the ways humans are doing it right now. it's not helping natural selection occur in other organisms
The interviewer got hit by a curve ball and never recovered.
How ironic, my bushes are loaded with bees this year. I thought I had a bee hive in the bushes. The buzzing is so loud that my daughter is scared to walk between the bushes.
I've actually seeing more and more honey bees at my house. they made a house in my garage and I don't want to evict them
This is GOOD NEWS!!! Yayyyyyy
This is not good news. Watch the video.
We need to protect more than just our bees, protect native pollinators in general.
I feel like this dude wasn't really answering the questions as much as he desperately wanted to stress his opinions about pesticides.
We did it, team!
Wow some really refreshing conversation here. Intelligent questions and intelligent answers no bickering and allowing eachother to speak while the other listens. Why can't all news be like this? I didn't realize how much I was craving just standard proper conversation.
One of the best things we, as individuals, can do is to plant native varieties of pollinator plants that are well adapted to our local area. Many local nurseries can help you select plantings that are appropriate for your ecosystem. There are also bee houses that, in conjunction with the food source you've just planted, attract native solitary bees and other pollinators to your new beautiful, sustainable garden.
I took 15 acres out of AG production and planted it in native grass and pollinator program. We need even further reduction in pesticides use, and regenerative AG practices. Modern day grain ag can be done so much better than we do!
So we dumped a bunch of toxic chemicals in our environment and somehow are surprised it had undesired effects.
Clearly, common sense is everything but common.
Beekeeper and entomologist here. I appreciate everyone raising awareness of native American bees, but please do not disregard the important of honeybees to agriculture in the Americas. Plant with billions of people, cities with millions and millions, farmers need to take steps to make sure their crops get pollinated. They can't just hope and pray they get pollinated by wild pollinators. Beekeepers like me need money to survive, honeybees mean we can make a product while pollinating crops. When I use mason bees, I end up having to charge the farmers more because they produce nothing for me to sell and make money with. Honeybees produce many resources.
When I had a garden, I realized honeybees and pollinators aren’t needed for a crop, virtually all veggies nowadays are self pollinating or have self -pollinating versions. Only good for honey production, BUT seeing a bumblebee or wild bee of any kind just made me so happy. Just superior pollinators that help with healthier tastier fruits and veggies. And they’re such big and fluffy and cute bugs that hardly ever sting and are so friendly. Good chunks of Wood with big drill holes for bumblebees in a quiet corner, some wild flowers in garden areas you’re not using, some water dishes, I think all help. Let some areas of the garden just grow wild.
I thought the narrative was "save the bed bees, they're dying". Oh wait, that's NATIVE bees
Good for them!
That’s what a good conservation initiative does!
"not increasing as much"
Interesting that he didn't say they were decreasing
We don't use weedkiller or pesticide on our lawn. We have honey bees and butter flies daily on our lawn.
The scientist dude looks like the kind of guy that would make first contact and go "Eh, I'm not impressed."
Domestic bees are a monoculture. They’ve been increased by ambitious breeding but one bad disease could hit that population hard
They're working on GMO bees for that. Sounds like a good idea, right? 😁
Really, most animals really aren't worth saving, but bees definitely are.
Buddy of mine has like 100 of those wood bees always tearing up his back porch. We don’t have a shortage of them in PA I tell ya 😅
Yes!!! We need you and appreciate you BEE’S!!!
In other news, Brazil now has the largest numbers of domestic cattle. Was there once a day when reporters could report what the experts are actually talking about? Here being native species of the wide variety of bees and bee like pollinators.
I big part of the credit for that should go to UA-cam. There are now so many hobbyists who have become excellent beekeepers because it is so easy to educate yourself here. 20 years, ago, those of us who were first starting out as beekeepers learned by trial and error, which usually meant killing hives. You can literally watch 2 hours of UA-cam videos now, and not only have great and thriving hives, but also have a profitable hobby.