The way this video GROSSLY understates the importance of neonicotinoids in the endangerement of bees is almost suspicious. You want proof ? They've just been outright BANNED in the entire European Union. This is shockingly bad, which is truly a shame for Verge Science because you were really putting out great content and The Verge has some really great people in it. But if I see a video that's downplaying SO much the importance of pesticides of the most influential companies in the world, I'm going to start asking whether I should trust The Verge at all.
Verge Science an interesting thing to note is that bees are actually an invasive species they are not native to north America and when they were brought here they started taking food sources that native polenizers and yes those exist were made much more rare
As a beekeeper this video didn't really teach me anything new. But it was well done for those who don't know as much about bees. What I do find CRIMINAL though, is that you don't even mention the fact that mass farming of crops in the US played a big part in CCD and it will also be killing off these other pollinators that you speak of. Monoculture farming on such a large scale just goes against nature for pure profit and benefits no one in the long run.
agreed. the simple solution in those almond orchards is to create thousands of bee oases scattered within the orchard that have mason bee nesting boxes. plant native flowers in those oases that will start flowering as soon as the almonds finish flowering so the mason bees have food to continue their lives and finish laying their eggs for the season. easy peasy, a 1-time expense (loss of some trees, for sure, to make the space for the oases, but overall, a healthier ecosystem, and self-sustaining bee population that saves them the money from eventually being able to cease renting honeybees.) the honeybee solution is basically a hammer. being stewards of wild bees, on the other hand, is a more delicate tool.
yeh crazy! Especially when so many of those crops are going to feed livestock! The grain subsidy system in America is SERIOUSLY broken! Cattle can be raised just as efficiently on grass as on crops if properly managed, meaning they split the total area into 100 or so paddocks & move the animals each day & leave the other 99 paddocks at different stages of growing back. The result of this also means, as a bonus, that there is always at least a few paddocks with mature grasses & flowers for the bees. Here's a video with a beekeeper talking about/showing it ua-cam.com/video/CxoRlLLzJtU/v-deo.html small scale, but it works large scale too, so yeh, rip up all those cropfields going to cattle food & replace them with diverse native species for rotational grazing & mix some other flowers or flowering food crops in with those almonds, or again do strips within the orchard that are left natural & have a few full time grazers in there systematically moving area to area, so as to cause the grasses to keep returning to flower. I mean heck, even just alternate almonds & apples or other fruits with different pollination seasons & leave the bees there eating their honey reserves between seasons (not good, the added natural stuff would clearly be superior, but even this has to be better than current doesn't it?)
Adrian Vandiver Specialisation is great, other than when the implementation is the detriment to long term sustainability and ecology. Then you need to adjust accordingly but unfortunately unless forced to most won't as it impacts profits.
Yeah - we would have liked to dig deeper into the plight of wild pollinators - that's a 10+ minute video! Or maybe a companion piece to this one. The big idea behind this video was more the industrial scale of honey bees, which wasn't something we quite realized before reporting this story.
As usual the focus is on the bees that make humans honey and fuel a billion dollar industry at the expense of their wild cousins who tend to be better pollinators, better for the environment, etc. Being put at risk by competition from 'honey'-bees competing for the same food and spreading their domestic diseases to the wild cousins.
Christian Tullius - That's not wrong. Managing a species to get crops to flourish. I'm so glad the figured out the stressors. In the meantime, while studying this, they discovered the wild pollinators face a challenge as well. So, thanks guys. Good work.
Monarchy is the best form of Government. "Democracy" is hopelessly evil and corrupt. "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 3:2, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
This video is completely ignoring the fact that domesticated honey bees are part of the problem; they drive out and compete with other species of indigenous pollinating insects, including wild bees, and there's no evidence that shows domesticated honey bees as being more effective than native pollinators. Competition paired with the fact that honey bees are protected by farmers contributes to the problem, along with all the other problems mentioned.
I have apiary and all around it are other type of bees and bumblebees and butterflies. The domestic bees go on mass crops. Unlike them other pollinators go on specific flowers that the bees ignore because there isn't enough of them. The problem is in the autumn when there is no food for anybody. Then the other pollinators could be in danger.
He did use some smoke, which scrambles bees' alarm pheromones and keeps them calm. But, fun fact, the variety of bees common on the West Coast tend to be more calm in general. Cue jokes about chill California bees... ~Will
Most beekeepers are comfortable thought any gloves. It makes you more careful and deliberate not to injure a bee. Beekeeping is hot work. Most Beeks only have a veil on with short and short sleeves. Bees by nature are not 'on the attack' or looking to die themselves.
My dad is an apiarist (Central Valley in Cali.) and it’s always a struggle every year, losing so many colonies! So much treatment, for the bees, has to be done to help them survive, sadly.
It's true...honey bees may not be going extinct, but beekeepers really are threatened by how hard it's gotten to maintain their colonies. Lots of researchers like Bernardo are working on technologies and other interventions to keep beekeeping viable. Hopefully things turn around for your dad's colonies!
meh, it's all monsanto. but they're too big to fail soooo. I live where there is no agriculture to speak of, little pesticide use, no monoculture, no and little to no habitat loss. Yet wild bumblebees seem to be less each year. Something else is going on.
Yes! The macro close-ups of the insects, the birds eye view of the orchard, the slow motion bee footage! I could watch that **** on a loop. I didn't expect to be so relaxed. I want to go to this orchard for a break!
+Ryan Huang: Except for the "bunch of newscasters saying the same term edited back-to-back" thing at 2:15, which is a technique that's lost its effectiveness through overuse (they even put über-cliché "Breaking News sting" music under it). The rest was very nice, though, especially the cool "traveling matte" effect at the beginning of the video. BTW, apropos trivia item: the first film to use a traveling matte effect was 1922's "Wild Honey"! 🐝🍯
The "bees flying out of the screen" effect at the beginning was a clever touch. 2:15, on the other hand - "That gag's got whiskers on it!" I miss the carpenter bees and bumblebees I used to see in Southern California as a kid in the '70s and '80s. Almost never see those guys anymore. 😟
THAT IS THE KEY PROBLEM!.... no body "keeps" wild pollinators... who is going to fight their battle against Neonecotinoids, big fields of monoculture farming, etc. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Certainly not Obama and his crew. The last week of his presidency the EPA flung the doors wide open on neonicotinoids. Obama made Bush Jr. look like a treehugger with the shenanigans his EPA pulled.
You don't necessarily need to keep/introduce wild pollinators, you need to plant habitat for them, that's the trick. Plants that have flowers that those pollinators are attracted to. Herbicides and pesticides are both problems, when you spray pesticides it kills EVERYTHING, even the insects you want. It is also a problem in our local parks, we plant plants for flowers that are just ornamental and aren't suitable for attracting beneficial insect pollinators.
That is actually a potential solution in the future...although perhaps we’re a long way away from robotic bees that are cheep enough to use in mass like that.
Dillon Travis the western honey bee are technically as an invasive species that was brought here by Europe for their honey and they’re out competing native polionaters
do you have a video of the WILD POLLINATORS, the carpenter, mason and bumble bee??? Nice video, it seems to be missing the wild Bee's =) THANKS MUCHLY for this
you do know that Western honey bees are terrible pollinators. Only producing 30% pollination for crops. While other types of wild bees produce 70-90% which means better crop production but they also lose out on honey production as those kinds of bees do not produce honey.
This problem is totally being understated. Lack of natural forage is the basis of the issue. Honeybees are only used as a pollination tool and every colony is replaced every season. Commercial beekeepers are constantly raising more and more colonies in order to remain viable. Queen events are happening all over the USA now and are increasing. Queen events are sudden unexplained queen loss in the colony. My state of Maryland loses over 60% of managed honeybee colonies every year...the national average loss rate if near 50% now...
My dad used to keep 35 bee colonies but most of them died unexpectedly and some just left. They were all bought from a bee farm. We moved but we still have the bee houses and a random huge bee family moved into one of the houses. My dad cleaned it all out for them and made it bigger so they’d have room. They’ve been very active and very healthy the last few months and still are. These are better than any of he other bee families we’ve owned last year.
I was so on board with this right up until the very last line! Never been stung by a bee infiltrating my veil, it’s really not hard to let them out and get on with your day
I know right. I just grab a can of gasoline and pour it on the entire nest, light it, and say, "I bet you wont be stinging me again", as I laugh maniacally.
If its invading your house, yes. We want the bees outside pollinating, not inside where they will sting you, and probably not find their way out, and starve to death anyway.
My grandfather was meticulous about running his 70+ beehives. Over the last few years he told me the media liked to play off the "mystery" when there actually wasn't one. It was a bacteria/virus (can't remember which) that was very treatable. However it was beyond crazy what was required to treat the bees. The medication needed to be refrigerated, feed to the bees at the right temperatures and constantly. The medication would be ineffective if any of the steps, temperatures or mixtures were not done specifically as instructed. Over the next few years bee hive owners lost there hives due to not medicating the bees properly while wild bees didn't stand a chance. True climate change is also playing a big role but it was not by any means a "Mystery" as so many large outlets claimed.
Don't they have bumblebee boxes in America? In Europe we can buy an active bumblebee colony in a box, and you just site it in the corner of your garden (or field or orchard) and they'll bumble away pollinating your crops all spring, summer and autumn long. The only thing is they're nearly always Bombus terrestis, the buff-tailed bumblebee which isn't native to the USA. Even though bumblebees only number a few hundred per colony, a lot of farmers prefer them as they're active on warm days even in winter, and in summer they'll spend twice as many hours a day foraging as honeybees. Long live the bumblebees!
You have not mentioned bees having high levels of aluminum leading to dementia - a widespread issue not covered, due to the sources of the aluminum. Google thus you'll see. A great vid otherwise.
I be honest quarantine is good for bees because they can rebuild their numbers like other animals and the earth can repair it self while we are sitting around My opinion
And it's not just about pollinators. Many other types of insects are in trouble. When's the last time you had to wipe a holocaust of insects off your windscreen? It's not a good sign that there are so few insects around these days. They are the bottom of the food chain, the canary in the coalmine.
I heard a lot of wild solo bees like to live in specific places. The most common 3 I know are: holes in the dirt, holes in wood, discarded snail shells. So maybe we need to start, "beekeeping" those bees too. We should research which crops native bees are best at pollinating, and then beekeep those native bees next to the crops.
I bought a quart of local Colorado honey and asked the seller about bees. He said a bee lives about 40 days and it took 13 bees lifetimes to make one Teaspoon of honey! thats alot of work for a bees and I really appreciate my peanut butter and honey (26 bees life times) sandwich alot more now.
I just watched a documentary on this they say part of it is because of the seed they use (has anti-drought properties) it has something to do with disorientating them from finding their way back to the hive
Um, yes they are. Pretty much every state monitors them. When Queens go on their mating flight, they will mate with an Africanized drone over an non-Africanized.
I was thinking "b" as a letter was going away. No more baby, Bagwan, Bubba, betting, beer, Bacardi, Chebrolet, etc. A catastrophe! But this video is interesting and a relief.
Ref: 6:23 => Question: Why is the solar panel positioned where it is, in the shade? The bee hives in the immediate background are sunlit; wouldn't the panel be more productive if placed among them?
We have to save the bumbles, those are the ones that are in danger and pollenate loads of plants other bees simply can't. They are also just the cutest things ever! :D But none of that really matters; not even how much they benefit us. What truly matters is that it's simply a really sad thing to make a species of animal extinct, and we shouldn't be going around doing that. That's the best reason why we have to save animals - as a balance against, and hopefully counter to, us destroying them.
I have 5 acres of land and I did notice last year that my garden didn’t do that well so I purchased two bees hives in an effort to help myself and of course maybe just repopulate my area
Veroa Mites weren't even a problem before we started breeding bees to be bigger. Best way to fight the mite problem is just to let bees free form their comb instead of using pre-set frames.
The decay of bee population is still a big concern. However, domestic honeybees are not the most efficient pollinisators. In my little garden (300 m²), I can spot of course honeybees, but also carpenter bees, bumblebees, mason bees, and all the series of wasps and hornets. They all go to different flowers.
If people want to help pollinators that are natural to your area.... plant native-to-your-area flowers and plants. A lot of local insects are only attracted to a very narrow number of flowers/plants/etc, and those plants are dwindling because of habitat loss. It can be very specific region to region. If we all do a little bit of research and plant some native flowers/bushes on our property -- and maybe convince some neighbors/family to do the same (because isolation is a big issue) -- it can be a huge help.
In my town, a little south, there was a neighbor who poisoned his next door neighbors bees. He has like 5k bees and he poisoned them because they "were a nuisance"
I wonder if it would be possible to breed certain pollinators into a domesticated species without stingers. That would probably go a long way to getting people to care about them. The reason they have the stingers is to protect the nest, but when you have humans already doing that for you, then it would probably be better for the domesticated pollinator to lose the stinger so that they're less of a nuisance to humans. Just an interesting thought.
Good video. I have noticed over the last couple of years a dramatic decrease in all insects, not just bees, on my patio. Maybe that Off stuff works, or maybe I shouldn't be using it.
The Vera mite was devastating on our Honey Bees in my area. And we have lose our little wild German Honey bee. I have not seen one in years. And I don't see as many wasp I used to. However the Bumble Bee appears to be making a great come back in my Area. A long with the little Carpenter bee. I have noticed thousands of them on wild plum this spring.
Me and my Family are Honey bee keepers too and some times in middle of summer 3 times straight one bee family in middle of summer came to bee house and end of summer they all left no dead bees full of honey and all that then next summer we noticed from forest bees flew in and back out to forest and bee family sat inside a tree where was hole and bees were colonizing in there too and in middle summer they moved inside bee house and they did this exact 3 years straight. Its no joke.
An important aspect you forget is the problem with competition. Domestic honey bees have an advantage when competing with wild pollinators. Otherwise great video.
I like bees. They look so cute and fluffy. And they're hard-working too. Some might call them the Japanese folks of the insect world. OK, I'm getting carried away.
What have you seen in the news about bees? How has the media portrayed the issue?
The way this video GROSSLY understates the importance of neonicotinoids in the endangerement of bees is almost suspicious. You want proof ? They've just been outright BANNED in the entire European Union.
This is shockingly bad, which is truly a shame for Verge Science because you were really putting out great content and The Verge has some really great people in it. But if I see a video that's downplaying SO much the importance of pesticides of the most influential companies in the world, I'm going to start asking whether I should trust The Verge at all.
Verge Science the media is pretty damn inaccurate
Science daily just stated that this has changed.
Verge Science LifeNoggin I'm watching this video from Australia. I haven't heard any NEWS about bees on my T.V. 😕. 🐝🌷👨🔬👨🏫🥑🍑♻️ℹ
Verge Science an interesting thing to note is that bees are actually an invasive species they are not native to north America and when they were brought here they started taking food sources that native polenizers and yes those exist were made much more rare
As a beekeeper this video didn't really teach me anything new. But it was well done for those who don't know as much about bees. What I do find CRIMINAL though, is that you don't even mention the fact that mass farming of crops in the US played a big part in CCD and it will also be killing off these other pollinators that you speak of. Monoculture farming on such a large scale just goes against nature for pure profit and benefits no one in the long run.
TheEquilibriate This
agreed. the simple solution in those almond orchards is to create thousands of bee oases scattered within the orchard that have mason bee nesting boxes. plant native flowers in those oases that will start flowering as soon as the almonds finish flowering so the mason bees have food to continue their lives and finish laying their eggs for the season. easy peasy, a 1-time expense (loss of some trees, for sure, to make the space for the oases, but overall, a healthier ecosystem, and self-sustaining bee population that saves them the money from eventually being able to cease renting honeybees.)
the honeybee solution is basically a hammer. being stewards of wild bees, on the other hand, is a more delicate tool.
yeh crazy! Especially when so many of those crops are going to feed livestock! The grain subsidy system in America is SERIOUSLY broken! Cattle can be raised just as efficiently on grass as on crops if properly managed, meaning they split the total area into 100 or so paddocks & move the animals each day & leave the other 99 paddocks at different stages of growing back. The result of this also means, as a bonus, that there is always at least a few paddocks with mature grasses & flowers for the bees. Here's a video with a beekeeper talking about/showing it ua-cam.com/video/CxoRlLLzJtU/v-deo.html small scale, but it works large scale too, so yeh, rip up all those cropfields going to cattle food & replace them with diverse native species for rotational grazing & mix some other flowers or flowering food crops in with those almonds, or again do strips within the orchard that are left natural & have a few full time grazers in there systematically moving area to area, so as to cause the grasses to keep returning to flower. I mean heck, even just alternate almonds & apples or other fruits with different pollination seasons & leave the bees there eating their honey reserves between seasons (not good, the added natural stuff would clearly be superior, but even this has to be better than current doesn't it?)
Adrian Vandiver Specialisation is great, other than when the implementation is the detriment to long term sustainability and ecology. Then you need to adjust accordingly but unfortunately unless forced to most won't as it impacts profits.
For being about wild bees, this video basically only talked about the domesticated species... which was disappointing.
Yeah - we would have liked to dig deeper into the plight of wild pollinators - that's a 10+ minute video! Or maybe a companion piece to this one. The big idea behind this video was more the industrial scale of honey bees, which wasn't something we quite realized before reporting this story.
As usual the focus is on the bees that make humans honey and fuel a billion dollar industry at the expense of their wild cousins who tend to be better pollinators, better for the environment, etc. Being put at risk by competition from 'honey'-bees competing for the same food and spreading their domestic diseases to the wild cousins.
also no mention of the western honey bee being an invasive species that tends to kill off other pollinators.
Yeah, Honey Bees are the problem... I wanted and still want some but it harms the native bees.
Christian Tullius - That's not wrong. Managing a species to get crops to flourish. I'm so glad the figured out the stressors. In the meantime, while studying this, they discovered the wild pollinators face a challenge as well. So, thanks guys. Good work.
Maybe the adult bees are sick and tired of the monarchy and are set upon founding their own hive based on democratic ideas and principles.
Mike Jones actually they do! Read Tom Seeley’s “Honeybee Democracy” 🐝🍃
Monarchy is the best form of Government. "Democracy" is hopelessly evil and corrupt. "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 3:2, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Oh boy, they are so screwed!
Or hear him talk about it :)
ua-cam.com/video/JnnjY823e-w/v-deo.html
Actually a hive will remove a queen and replace her if she's not doing a good job.
This video is completely ignoring the fact that domesticated honey bees are part of the problem; they drive out and compete with other species of indigenous pollinating insects, including wild bees, and there's no evidence that shows domesticated honey bees as being more effective than native pollinators. Competition paired with the fact that honey bees are protected by farmers contributes to the problem, along with all the other problems mentioned.
Robbie Cecil Thanks for shedding light on the real problem.
I know right!but hey they say they want to do that in another video
Robbie Cecil no they are way worse
Glad someone knows what's up.
I have apiary and all around it are other type of bees and bumblebees and butterflies. The domestic bees go on mass crops. Unlike them other pollinators go on specific flowers that the bees ignore because there isn't enough of them. The problem is in the autumn when there is no food for anybody. Then the other pollinators could be in danger.
Did you just end this video with a tip for killing bees?
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Just be carefull that you dont smash the wild bees, or you are contributing to a widespread problem
m.ua-cam.com/video/Kf2-86o5S1o/v-deo.html
I think that's just in case a wasp or something is trying to maul you
No, it was a tip for courting your mom.
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Oh. I thought we were going to lose the letter b. This is much different.
Andreas Lindhé: 😝Womp. Womp. Woommpp!!
Ut we have een missing the letter for illions f illions of ygone years
*dad jokes 101*
Ee urr
How in the hell is he handling all those bees with his bare hands
He did use some smoke, which scrambles bees' alarm pheromones and keeps them calm. But, fun fact, the variety of bees common on the West Coast tend to be more calm in general. Cue jokes about chill California bees... ~Will
Verge Science they're bee'ing cool about it.
It was worth it x'D
Celix seleton must also have some really beeg balls
the wonderful gentle not so giants. bees are amazing creatures and fascinating.
Most beekeepers are comfortable thought any gloves. It makes you more careful and deliberate not to injure a bee. Beekeeping is hot work. Most Beeks only have a veil on with short and short sleeves. Bees by nature are not 'on the attack' or looking to die themselves.
My dad is an apiarist (Central Valley in Cali.) and it’s always a struggle every year, losing so many colonies! So much treatment, for the bees, has to be done to help them survive, sadly.
It's true...honey bees may not be going extinct, but beekeepers really are threatened by how hard it's gotten to maintain their colonies. Lots of researchers like Bernardo are working on technologies and other interventions to keep beekeeping viable. Hopefully things turn around for your dad's colonies!
Verge Science Thanks, hopefully the colonies do get better! Where can I follow up on Bernardo’s research?
Bernardo is involved in UC Davis's "bee lab" (run by his wife, elninobeelab.ucdavis.edu/), and is also working on some tech over at ubees.com.
Varroa mites are hell
meh, it's all monsanto. but they're too big to fail soooo. I live where there is no agriculture to speak of, little pesticide use, no monoculture, no and little to no habitat loss. Yet wild bumblebees seem to be less each year. Something else is going on.
This whole video is beautifully shot and edited!
Yes! The macro close-ups of the insects, the birds eye view of the orchard, the slow motion bee footage! I could watch that **** on a loop. I didn't expect to be so relaxed. I want to go to this orchard for a break!
and very well researched.
+Ryan Huang: Except for the "bunch of newscasters saying the same term edited back-to-back" thing at 2:15, which is a technique that's lost its effectiveness through overuse (they even put über-cliché "Breaking News sting" music under it). The rest was very nice, though, especially the cool "traveling matte" effect at the beginning of the video. BTW, apropos trivia item: the first film to use a traveling matte effect was 1922's "Wild Honey"! 🐝🍯
The "bees flying out of the screen" effect at the beginning was a clever touch. 2:15, on the other hand - "That gag's got whiskers on it!" I miss the carpenter bees and bumblebees I used to see in Southern California as a kid in the '70s and '80s. Almost never see those guys anymore. 😟
THAT IS THE KEY PROBLEM!.... no body "keeps" wild pollinators... who is going to fight their battle against Neonecotinoids, big fields of monoculture farming, etc. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
VERY GOOD VIDEO @VERGESCIENCE
You can encourage them and build little homes for them, As far as keeping them i don't think it can be done.
Bee hotels can be built, I drilled holes in a block of cedar and leafcutter bees have started nesting in it
Certainly not Obama and his crew. The last week of his presidency the EPA flung the doors wide open on neonicotinoids. Obama made Bush Jr. look like a treehugger with the shenanigans his EPA pulled.
You don't necessarily need to keep/introduce wild pollinators, you need to plant habitat for them, that's the trick. Plants that have flowers that those pollinators are attracted to. Herbicides and pesticides are both problems, when you spray pesticides it kills EVERYTHING, even the insects you want.
It is also a problem in our local parks, we plant plants for flowers that are just ornamental and aren't suitable for attracting beneficial insect pollinators.
*It's time. Unleash the micro-drone pollinator swarms.*
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Will do! :D Have a grand day!
That is actually a potential solution in the future...although perhaps we’re a long way away from robotic bees that are cheep enough to use in mass like that.
@@TommoCarroll you to
Those Almond farms are a big factor. No biodiversity and heaps of pesticides, its pretty clear really!
*Makes video about endangered native bees (thousands of species in US) and only shoots video with honey bees*
Dillon Travis cause that’s the main pollinator for food crops the media is flipping about dummy and that’s what a large portion of America believes.
Dillon Travis the western honey bee are technically as an invasive species that was brought here by Europe for their honey and they’re out competing native polionaters
@@bmchromo2131 You mean BEElieves?
So you missed the few clips of other pollinators.
3 months ago i had an essay to do about this EXACT topic. Thx for uploading so early. :=)
-"thousands of species of wild bees are key pollinators"
-shows feral colony of western honeybees
Yeah
Come on guys, please post more than one video per week, such an awesome channel
do you have a video of the WILD POLLINATORS, the carpenter, mason and bumble bee??? Nice video, it seems to be missing the wild Bee's =) THANKS MUCHLY for this
you do know that Western honey bees are terrible pollinators. Only producing 30% pollination for crops. While other types of wild bees produce 70-90% which means better crop production but they also lose out on honey production as those kinds of bees do not produce honey.
This is one of the best channels
It really is! It was interesting Verge waited so long to branch out into another channel like this - but worth the wait!!!
I love bees and science in general, so ya, like this channel!
Manish Sanikop bit too much filler
As a beekeeper, this was a good watch. Thank you for bringing this into the spotlight.
They didn't even bother to mention that bringing the honeybees into an area is a problem for the native bees.
This problem is totally being understated. Lack of natural forage is the basis of the issue. Honeybees are only used as a pollination tool and every colony is replaced every season. Commercial beekeepers are constantly raising more and more colonies in order to remain viable. Queen events are happening all over the USA now and are increasing. Queen events are sudden unexplained queen loss in the colony. My state of Maryland loses over 60% of managed honeybee colonies every year...the national average loss rate if near 50% now...
Why are bees going extinct? People keep eating their honeycombs for ASMR.
My dad used to keep 35 bee colonies but most of them died unexpectedly and some just left. They were all bought from a bee farm.
We moved but we still have the bee houses and a random huge bee family moved into one of the houses. My dad cleaned it all out for them and made it bigger so they’d have room. They’ve been very active and very healthy the last few months and still are. These are better than any of he other bee families we’ve owned last year.
Very informational video. Honestly, speaks the truth. *well done*
"The bees just flew away" hahahaha why is that such a surprise??
Ah... the bees are flying over the shrunken black boarder @0:05
"Turtle your neck, let it fly up, and smash it" _NOOOOO!!!_
i used to collect bees in my container when I was 10 I didn’t know they were endangered tho
The honeybees are not but native bees are tho
I was so on board with this right up until the very last line! Never been stung by a bee infiltrating my veil, it’s really not hard to let them out and get on with your day
thats your send away message? smash a bee?
hahhaha
I know right. I just grab a can of gasoline and pour it on the entire nest, light it, and say, "I bet you wont be stinging me again", as I laugh maniacally.
If its invading your house, yes. We want the bees outside pollinating, not inside where they will sting you, and probably not find their way out, and starve to death anyway.
My grandfather was meticulous about running his 70+ beehives. Over the last few years he told me the media liked to play off the "mystery" when there actually wasn't one. It was a bacteria/virus (can't remember which) that was very treatable. However it was beyond crazy what was required to treat the bees. The medication needed to be refrigerated, feed to the bees at the right temperatures and constantly. The medication would be ineffective if any of the steps, temperatures or mixtures were not done specifically as instructed. Over the next few years bee hive owners lost there hives due to not medicating the bees properly while wild bees didn't stand a chance. True climate change is also playing a big role but it was not by any means a "Mystery" as so many large outlets claimed.
Wow, this was actually an interesting video.
It's amazing. In our yard we recently have a resurgence of native bees and pollinators. Honeybees Delende Est!
some avocados
Millennials: *searches up how to start a bee hive*
Am really enjoying this channel. Very interesting summary on the bee situation!
pls no smash 🐝
I smashed 🐝
buzz buzz pls lemme smash
I just squished bees
Smush
pls no sting
Don't they have bumblebee boxes in America? In Europe we can buy an active bumblebee colony in a box, and you just site it in the corner of your garden (or field or orchard) and they'll bumble away pollinating your crops all spring, summer and autumn long.
The only thing is they're nearly always Bombus terrestis, the buff-tailed bumblebee which isn't native to the USA.
Even though bumblebees only number a few hundred per colony, a lot of farmers prefer them as they're active on warm days even in winter, and in summer they'll spend twice as many hours a day foraging as honeybees.
Long live the bumblebees!
So let me get this straight in California they got close to 2 million colonies but in the entire USA there is only 2.7 million colonies?
I've had chocolate, honey and coffee already this morning. I love bees ..
I agree
You have not mentioned bees having high levels of aluminum leading to dementia - a widespread issue not covered, due to the sources of the aluminum. Google thus you'll see. A great vid otherwise.
Does cooking with aluminum cause this too!?
I be honest quarantine is good for bees because they can rebuild their numbers like other animals and the earth can repair it self while we are sitting around
My opinion
Isn’t smashing a bee in your bonnet counterproductive?
It's just one bee. The main issue is about the bigger picture of colony collapse.
5 bees went into our classroom and the substitute didn’t care.
lol we just shoved them up the vents
And it's not just about pollinators. Many other types of insects are in trouble. When's the last time you had to wipe a holocaust of insects off your windscreen? It's not a good sign that there are so few insects around these days. They are the bottom of the food chain, the canary in the coalmine.
The bats are showing us the result. I used to see thousands of bats flying around at dusk. I saw one the other day, the first one in about ten years.
I heard a lot of wild solo bees like to live in specific places. The most common 3 I know are: holes in the dirt, holes in wood, discarded snail shells. So maybe we need to start, "beekeeping" those bees too. We should research which crops native bees are best at pollinating, and then beekeep those native bees next to the crops.
1:04 BERNARDO BOY (I'm sorry)
Grace Motley lol i didn't notice
Yes, this word is used to refer to a small male child.
El niño Bernadito
Lol
LMAO....
I bought a quart of local Colorado honey and asked the seller about bees. He said a bee lives about 40 days and it took 13 bees lifetimes to make one Teaspoon of honey! thats alot of work for a bees and I really appreciate my peanut butter and honey (26 bees life times) sandwich alot more now.
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Cool Video
Welcome!
Charmander 101 i love his channal
I just watched a documentary on this they say part of it is because of the seed they use (has anti-drought properties) it has something to do with disorientating them from finding their way back to the hive
We should diversify the kinds of bees/pollinators we use
The video is all about the western honeybee. The 'other bees' are mentioned only briefly and incidentally.
*and smash it.*
So clear and informational content keep going:}
millennial bees found their job unsatisfactory !
7 yrs ago i was walking in a park near ny house and their were about 1000 dead bees in one little area
No mention of the Africanized bees. They’re not going anywhere.
Um, yes they are. Pretty much every state monitors them. When Queens go on their mating flight, they will mate with an Africanized drone over an non-Africanized.
It's africanized
@@auburnalum9019 sounds like a lot of white women i know too.
Wow imagine being a bee having a purpose and just enjoying pollinating. Now that's the life.
I hate when people see a “BEE” and literally loose their mind !
Like calm down.
Your going to be okay.
No I'm not, im going to cry, thank you very much
Apparently, you've never been stung🐝
😂
@@looseburger4515 Not only do they sting, they usually choose a sensitive spot, like the skin between your fingers or your ear.
I was thinking "b" as a letter was going away. No more baby, Bagwan, Bubba, betting, beer, Bacardi, Chebrolet, etc. A catastrophe! But this video is interesting and a relief.
No!
I love honey!😐
RUMOUR PLAYS# well you are killing bees by loving honey..
CLAW WER oh!!!
Btw can you sub me?
nah sry man. I only sub to people I enjoy watching... Keep growing tho.. you'll find the viewers that like what yah do
CLAW WER ok! Thx
I noticed over the decades a great decline in honeybee pollenators-they are replaced with a smaller version of bumblebees.
A.I will take the Bees job.
RizzyWow like the ones in black mirror
Yeah right
AI is just a software technique in classification and clustering. You need to learn about topics first before you try to sound "informed".
And could be hacked to use as a weapon... or the AI could go awry and attack as well. It's best to preserve the life here, for us and the bees.
I see you watched Black Mirror as well.
Ref: 6:23 => Question: Why is the solar panel positioned where it is, in the shade? The bee hives in the immediate background are sunlit; wouldn't the panel be more productive if placed among them?
I came from vox great stuff I'll be subbing!
Came here from Vox too! :D
As a Ontarian, I see bees commonly in summer. In July, flowers grow freely.
Vegemite > Honey Bee
Australians 01 - The rest of the world 00
We have to save the bumbles, those are the ones that are in danger and pollenate loads of plants other bees simply can't. They are also just the cutest things ever! :D But none of that really matters; not even how much they benefit us. What truly matters is that it's simply a really sad thing to make a species of animal extinct, and we shouldn't be going around doing that. That's the best reason why we have to save animals - as a balance against, and hopefully counter to, us destroying them.
Who's here before a 1000 views
This channel isn't very popular *yet*, so becoming before 1000 views is easy :p
Who cares ?
Tully maybe your the only one of the losers who have nothing better to do
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I have 5 acres of land and I did notice last year that my garden didn’t do that well so I purchased two bees hives in an effort to help myself and of course maybe just repopulate my area
Notification squad where you at?
Oh well hey there Andries! Present and accounted for right here!
Plant garlic near the bee hives.
Put a bowl of water near the hives.
great docu,thanks !
sooh...
Friend:" Bee mites are the cause of bees going extinct ?"
me:" Mite bee "
I can't help but think UBEES missed the boat on their start up name, clearly it should have been named BOO BEES
Most of my friends thought honey bees were wasps when they saw them. And that bumble bees were ‘bees’ 😂😂
Bees are invasive species, the only problem their disappearance would cause is the rising bee product prices.
Veroa Mites weren't even a problem before we started breeding bees to be bigger. Best way to fight the mite problem is just to let bees free form their comb instead of using pre-set frames.
When I think of bee, I think bumble bee before Honey bee.
I tend to see a lot more bumble bees here in England too.
The decay of bee population is still a big concern. However, domestic honeybees are not the most efficient pollinisators. In my little garden (300 m²), I can spot of course honeybees, but also carpenter bees, bumblebees, mason bees, and all the series of wasps and hornets. They all go to different flowers.
then why is my back yard currently under attack
If people want to help pollinators that are natural to your area.... plant native-to-your-area flowers and plants.
A lot of local insects are only attracted to a very narrow number of flowers/plants/etc, and those plants are dwindling because of habitat loss. It can be very specific region to region.
If we all do a little bit of research and plant some native flowers/bushes on our property -- and maybe convince some neighbors/family to do the same (because isolation is a big issue) -- it can be a huge help.
What are the other pollinators that are extinct or on the verge of extinction? And what plants did/do they pollinate?
Our choices are to bee or not to bee, literally
Scarlett runner beans attract humming birds, bees and butterflies.
1:42 That bee looks like it's posing seductively to me..
In my town, a little south, there was a neighbor who poisoned his next door neighbors bees. He has like 5k bees and he poisoned them because they "were a nuisance"
I wonder if it would be possible to breed certain pollinators into a domesticated species without stingers. That would probably go a long way to getting people to care about them. The reason they have the stingers is to protect the nest, but when you have humans already doing that for you, then it would probably be better for the domesticated pollinator to lose the stinger so that they're less of a nuisance to humans. Just an interesting thought.
video talking about saving bees ends with "and smash it" lol
Ohhhhh man you made the video that I wanted to make!
Whoever did the highlighting is a maniac
Good video. I have noticed over the last couple of years a dramatic decrease in all insects, not just bees, on my patio. Maybe that Off stuff works, or maybe I shouldn't be using it.
The Vera mite was devastating on our Honey Bees in my area. And we have lose our little wild German Honey bee. I have not seen one in years. And I don't see as many wasp I used to. However the Bumble Bee appears to be making a great come back in my Area. A long with the little Carpenter bee. I have noticed thousands of them on wild plum this spring.
Me and my Family are Honey bee keepers too and some times in middle of summer 3 times straight one bee family in middle of summer came to bee house and end of summer they all left no dead bees full of honey and all that then next summer we noticed from forest bees flew in and back out to forest and bee family sat inside a tree where was hole and bees were colonizing in there too and in middle summer they moved inside bee house and they did this exact 3 years straight. Its no joke.
The greatest Bee uprising of our time! I'm proud of you Bees!
An important aspect you forget is the problem with competition. Domestic honey bees have an advantage when competing with wild pollinators. Otherwise great video.
I like bees. They look so cute and fluffy. And they're hard-working too. Some might call them the Japanese folks of the insect world. OK, I'm getting carried away.
In other words . . . the Big Bee Scare was mostly BEE-ESS