I kept bees when I was a kid. Fascinating critters. I could watch them return from a successful foraging and exchange their cargo with the house bees. Watching them do a dance is amazing...and watching them leave the hive...doing a couple of circles above it to get a sun fix...and then off they go. Later in life, my girlfriend was wearing a one piece, flower patterned bathing suit, lying on her stomach in the sun......asleep. She was covered in bees. They were lured by the flower pattern on her bathing suit. As she slept, the bees figured out that they weren't really flowers...and left. Not one sting. I told her about it when I woke her up...and she was somewhat less than amused. They're amazing creatures...and we literally owe our lives to them.
I used to be afraid of them until I met this guy at our local farmers market who sold honey. Bees were always calm flying around him and sitting on him. So now if one lands on me, I just assume she thinks I smell of flowers or needs a ride somewhere
I used to be obsessed with watching this on vhs when I was a toddler I'm glad it's finally been uploaded in an easy to access place I'll probably download it as a backup so I don't lose access to it for any reason
I kept bees for nearly twenty years. My mentor was nearly 90 at the time, and had kept bees nearly all his life. He said there was always something new to learn, no matter how long you've been at it.
Just got the DVD of this 1998 Nova. Should have won photography awards, especially for the mating material. Good bee documentaries, much like lion ones, never wear out their fascination. Without question, the most helpful insect to the human race. Period. Save The Bees, indeed.
Just remember that "saving the bees" should be focused more on native bees than honeybees. Honeybees are not endangered at all, since they're basically human livestock now. Bumblebees, sweat bees, even some wasps, are all more important pollinators than honeybees.
This is truly Amazing, I try by best to get my grands to watch theses amazing vedios, BUT with their phone it's over! However I'm very interested 😊😊 THANKYOU SO MUCH 👍🏾👍🏾❤️❤️
Bees certainly are amazing creatures being able to carry the pollen and nectar back to the hive it certainly gives new meaning to the term 'Flying on a full stomach'.
What a fascinating documentary. I build an insecthotel and I saw some bees moving in. I am so fascinated by them that I wanted to know more! Well this has been informative! I'll watch my bee family so they can do their thing!
I have bees ,, keeping them over winter has become difficult but the challenge helps my brain I am sure ,, at 71 , I could never leave my bees and go to a senior residence until they allowed a bee hive ,,, I am sure residents living there would love watching them all summer and move them in to a Florida room for winter, they are very nice and happy to see and hear
This documentary was one of the best I've watched in a while! So invested in the trials and tribulations of those two bee colonies. Found the bit about the moth super funny too how this big moth can just pretend it's a bee and the bees are just like "yeah that dudes totally a bee this is fine but where the honey at tho??"
It’s a stationary bee that is secured by clamps with the camera extremely close. The bee itself is flapping and wiggling and such but it’s not going anywhere, the rest is edited in.
It astounds me to this day that Nova videos can accumulate any dislikes at all. I can't even count how many of these videos I have queued up in my headphones while at work. Nothing makes a monotonous night go by quicker than an enjoyable and educational soundtrack playing in the background. These programs always provide and amazing balance of awe and knowledge.
If you have 6 hours to kill or don't mind taking it in doses, Desmond Morris' 'The Human Animal' series is fantastic. It's an old collection, but it consists of six, one hour long videos. His 'The Human Animal' series is one of my favorite anthropological documentaries ever. It's definitely a bit dated but the videos are still relevant. Some of the information--given the fact that it's a science video--is likely to be outdated. Times change and science changes with it after all.
In all my 54 years I have never seen a more fact filled and well-done documentary on bees. Just amazing! ❤ 🐝 18:32 Isn't it amazing how they can hover and fly backwards as well?
i grew up watching these kinds of documentaries. i remember watching about butterflies, grasshopper, ants, ladybug…etc. my world then was full of colours and nature but has since faded due to me growing up, becoming busier with school and now work. i’m thankful that these films are still around on an easy to acess platform. i feel like i’m once again a carefree child watching this on a sunny peaceful Saturday morning.
just remember a few points. The drone bees fly out and mate with other queens from different colony's. The bees holding hands and making a chain is called festooning,
OMG this is one of the best videos I have ever seen! So perfectly narrated - fascinating, beautiful. I had no idea bees have such magnificent and ornate lives. Wow!
"Just another ordinary day of birth, death, sex, and violence..." Rock on Bees, rock on. This was fun to watch. I recommend watching Detroit Hives on planet classroom if you're into beekeeping or just like bees.
I worry that I’m 1:20 in and have already heard an inaccuracy. Bees are able to sting wasps and other insects over and over. The reason they can’t do this with mammals is because the stingers barbs get trapped under the skin, but with other insects and their smooth exoskeletons this is not an issue. Occasionally if you get stung by a bee and give the bee enough time they can pull their stinger out, not always but every once in a while.
I've been using honey as a natural antibiotic on cuts. Although I'm not able to legally give medical advice all I can say is what I know from personal experience. I had a large cut on my arm from a nail on a board by accident. I poured honey in the cut, covered it with a paper towel and wrapped it with duct tape. When I went to rewrap it the next day, the skin had fused together. Honey kills germs and bacteria it comes in contact with. When put into a skin cut, the body will absorb it without any problem.
@9:35 Drones AND Queens both go out on mating flights. They typically DO NOT mate with the same hive's drones or queens. Genetic diversity is very important and the bees know this!
Oh interesting! That explains why they don't just mate in the hives! I was like why risk going out at all but your comment explains it thank you very much
@@WhitneyDahlin You're very welcome! I do a lot of talking about bees both on my youtube channel as well as on my Truth Frequency Radio show if you're interested in learning more. I will be having some awesome beekeeper guests coming up soon.
Which is a good theory, but for the fact that because multiple colonies are genetically related to the same queen, there really isn't all that much genetic diversity within any given species within genius Apis (consisting of 11 species of honey bees and related species).
NOVA is awesome ! So many wonderful shows !!!! I could watch wildlife / nature documentaries all day.. that is after all , the only content I watch on TH-cam ... literally,.. I care nothing for the other content always being plastered all over the place ... people who don’t appreciate and enjoy observing nature and understanding into the behaviors snd lives of wildlife are Truly missing out ., id prefer just go watch a narrated documentary of the wildlife without intruding humans having to benefit off their hard work ... yeah I get it , we all have to eat .. but I am not interested in seeing Bee keepers and their camera time .. wish they’d just talk about and show the bees !!
the moth is likely a female. My experience is the honeybees carry enough honey when they swarm to begin building comb. They usually stop, briefly, near the old colony to organise, then fly to a site scouts already have found. I am in Florida, so our warmer climate changes things a lot
Ya know, I had seriously wondered about that ....1oz wax=1lb honey,and how they were able to get the comb started... Glad I read your post, unraveled that knot in the back of my mind Thanks lol
@@kevinserpa9423 that's why you see swarms fly slowly, and why the bees are mellowed-out in a swarm- they are full of honey-it is also why, when I actively am working in the beesiness,I try to hive the swarm as soon As I can- so they dont waste their energy. Bees that have absconded might not fit the pr ofile
Q. Does the honey bee actually die if it stings the wasp? If it's stinger barbs don't go far enough into the wasp then I can't see it ripping it's abdomen rear off and hence shouldn't die?
Has there ever been an accurate treatment of the trail of the colony collapse disorder? Where indeed did it start? I read at one point that it originated in Israel? Where do we stand with its control presently?
Can someone comment as to the type of hives shown in this video? I liked how the frames are accessed from the back versus on top... you never have to pull them fully apart). What are they called?
I kept bees when I was a kid. Fascinating critters. I could watch them return from a successful foraging and exchange their cargo with the house bees. Watching them do a dance is amazing...and watching them leave the hive...doing a couple of circles above it to get a sun fix...and then off they go. Later in life, my girlfriend was wearing a one piece, flower patterned bathing suit, lying on her stomach in the sun......asleep. She was covered in bees. They were lured by the flower pattern on her bathing suit. As she slept, the bees figured out that they weren't really flowers...and left. Not one sting. I told her about it when I woke her up...and she was somewhat less than amused. They're amazing creatures...and we literally owe our lives to them.
I kept crickets as a kid then sea life as a teen and now spiders as an adult
I used to be afraid of them until I met this guy at our local farmers market who sold honey. Bees were always calm flying around him and sitting on him. So now if one lands on me, I just assume she thinks I smell of flowers or needs a ride somewhere
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God save the queen 😅
I used to be obsessed with watching this on vhs when I was a toddler
I'm glad it's finally been uploaded in an easy to access place
I'll probably download it as a backup so I don't lose access to it for any reason
I kept bees for nearly twenty years. My mentor was nearly 90 at the time, and had kept bees nearly all his life. He said there was always something new to learn, no matter how long you've been at it.
Just got the DVD of this 1998 Nova. Should have won photography awards, especially for the mating material. Good bee documentaries, much like lion ones, never wear out their fascination. Without question, the most helpful insect to the human race. Period. Save The Bees, indeed.
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100%
Just remember that "saving the bees" should be focused more on native bees than honeybees. Honeybees are not endangered at all, since they're basically human livestock now.
Bumblebees, sweat bees, even some wasps, are all more important pollinators than honeybees.
Ви безперечно праві. Ні в якому разі не використовуйте російські мінеральні добрива. Зникають цілі популяції комах. І я маю цьому підтвердження.
This is truly Amazing, I try by best to get my grands to watch theses amazing vedios, BUT with their phone it's over! However I'm very interested 😊😊 THANKYOU SO MUCH 👍🏾👍🏾❤️❤️
Bees certainly are amazing creatures being able to carry the pollen and nectar back to the hive it certainly gives new meaning to the term 'Flying on a full stomach'.
What a fascinating documentary. I build an insecthotel and I saw some bees moving in. I am so fascinated by them that I wanted to know more! Well this has been informative! I'll watch my bee family so they can do their thing!
A great documentary will stand the test of time.
🙌 Thanks for posting a video older than me. That was great!
I have bees ,, keeping them over winter has become difficult but the challenge helps my brain I am sure ,, at 71 , I could never leave my bees and go to a senior residence until they allowed a bee hive ,,, I am sure residents living there would love watching them all summer and move them in to a Florida room for winter, they are very nice and happy to see and hear
This documentary was one of the best I've watched in a while! So invested in the trials and tribulations of those two bee colonies. Found the bit about the moth super funny too how this big moth can just pretend it's a bee and the bees are just like "yeah that dudes totally a bee this is fine but where the honey at tho??"
Kudos to the cameraman! I can’t get enough of the footage! It’s a marvel how they managed to capture some of these!
It’s a stationary bee that is secured by clamps with the camera extremely close.
The bee itself is flapping and wiggling and such but it’s not going anywhere, the rest is edited in.
Just watched this for the first time last night with a Buddy of mind. This was amazing, enjoyed every bit.
We’re you high
I am a beekeeper... great video! Thanks for sharing!
AGREE
I love 🐝 bee’s also & my dad’s a bee keeper & he lives in meeker Colorado 😁👍🤩🤩
Awesome video! Beekeeper from Sacramento, California. Bees are awesome!
Beautifully made, the humble Bee 🐝
It astounds me to this day that Nova videos can accumulate any dislikes at all. I can't even count how many of these videos I have queued up in my headphones while at work. Nothing makes a monotonous night go by quicker than an enjoyable and educational soundtrack playing in the background. These programs always provide and amazing balance of awe and knowledge.
What are some other good ones?
If you have 6 hours to kill or don't mind taking it in doses, Desmond Morris' 'The Human Animal' series is fantastic. It's an old collection, but it consists of six, one hour long videos. His 'The Human Animal' series is one of my favorite anthropological documentaries ever.
It's definitely a bit dated but the videos are still relevant. Some of the information--given the fact that it's a science video--is likely to be outdated. Times change and science changes with it after all.
@@krimzonghost1987 thx ill check it out
Sweet anticipation. BEAUTIFUL MOVIE! LOVE IT. Thank you so much for sharing it.
this is very good video! the photography is impeccable .
In all my 54 years I have never seen a more fact filled and well-done documentary on bees. Just amazing! ❤ 🐝
18:32 Isn't it amazing how they can hover and fly backwards as well?
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beautiful film of their lives and love the word "PANTRY"
Awesome video. I am a beekeeper & just loved this.
i grew up watching these kinds of documentaries. i remember watching about butterflies, grasshopper, ants, ladybug…etc. my world then was full of colours and nature but has since faded due to me growing up, becoming busier with school and now work. i’m thankful that these films are still around on an easy to acess platform. i feel like i’m once again a carefree child watching this on a sunny peaceful Saturday morning.
Salute you john, for your hard work, 🙏🙏🙏
The music when the queens are fighting is frightening lol
Thank you for interesting movie. Best wishes!
It takes the nector from 5 million flowers to make a pint of honey! Astounding.
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Excellent video. Shared by email to extended family. Must be viewed multiple times .
Bees are so important to the eco system,and seem to not mind being in human supervised colonies.
yes very informative hive bee keeping .keep up good beekeepers
Very enjoyable and relaxing show.
Awesome video! Very informative!!
Thanks for sharing this excellent knowledge! Thanks to all. Regards
first at all, thanks a lot for what an amazing show. Greetings from Cali, Colombia
I have an irrational fear of bees. I’m not allergic or anything. This is helping a bit. Thanks for the upload!
Excellent. Thanks. Should be shown in school
Beautiful video.
Thanks for the video... I really enjoy watching
I like this film! Today, i watch this film second times!
I love the elegant music
Very nice video, im a beekeeper too, from the Philippines
Amazing very smart creatures!
Extraordinary 😲👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️⭐💕
😊👍🏾👍🏾❤️
just remember a few points. The drone bees fly out and mate with other queens from different colony's. The bees holding hands and making a chain is called festooning,
Bees are awesome. I want to learn how to keep them, so I can help their species.
oh shoooot i just got to the part where the moth taking that honey, stuff bout to go down
wow plenty of flowers in your field
This South Texas beekeeper sez, Very Nice Job!
OMG this is one of the best videos I have ever seen! So perfectly narrated - fascinating, beautiful. I had no idea bees have such magnificent and ornate lives. Wow!
"Just another ordinary day of birth, death, sex, and violence..." Rock on Bees, rock on. This was fun to watch. I recommend watching Detroit Hives on planet classroom if you're into beekeeping or just like bees.
And that was just before noon.
Bees are blooming brilliant 👏🏻 god bless the bees 🐝 🙏🏼 ❤
Awwww i love honey bees 😍
It’s 2020 and this is still a fantastic documentary
Agreed! We just watched it and enjoyed every minute.
Cool film... if it's ever edited again, please ditch the trumpets.
@Gordon Aydin lol
Yeah ik is this a funeral 🙄
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The trumpet was my favorite part
@Arlo Arthur Cordell I just got to the trumpet part. If this continues I'm finding another documentary.
The best vidio of honey bee till now. ❤
The sweet anticapation -great answer
David great narrator. Miss mash. New programs, that is, but you can't bring the dead to life.
very great channel! l keep subscribed
That was outstanding! Thank you
This is the best 🐝 bees video I have seen😁😁😁😁😁😃😃😃
i think 🐝 bees are most important insect in the world
I worry that I’m 1:20 in and have already heard an inaccuracy. Bees are able to sting wasps and other insects over and over. The reason they can’t do this with mammals is because the stingers barbs get trapped under the skin, but with other insects and their smooth exoskeletons this is not an issue. Occasionally if you get stung by a bee and give the bee enough time they can pull their stinger out, not always but every once in a while.
I was about to comment that aye
what she said.
I think he was just getting the point across that when honeybees sting they lose there stinger.
@@TheJapagu only when they sting mammals. That’s the point I was making. If they sting other insects they do not lose their stinger.
Man, I love bees
There lives are so in depth and complex, surely there is a God 🤔
Surely there is evolution and mother nature!! ❤
Yes I agree. The colony is irreducibly complex.
I was just having that exact same thought😇🐝
We just witnessed a murder 😳
R.I.P wasp
i wasted almost an hour watching this, but it was worth it
nice video! now that I've seen this, I think bees are actually cute!
That bear startled the hell out of me!
Super Special...👌
Fascinating!
Love this video and love bees! 🐝❤️
I've been using honey as a natural antibiotic on cuts. Although I'm not able to legally give medical advice all I can say is what I know from personal experience. I had a large cut on my arm from a nail on a board by accident. I poured honey in the cut, covered it with a paper towel and wrapped it with duct tape. When I went to rewrap it the next day, the skin had fused together. Honey kills germs and bacteria it comes in contact with. When put into a skin cut, the body will absorb it without any problem.
@9:35 Drones AND Queens both go out on mating flights. They typically DO NOT mate with the same hive's drones or queens. Genetic diversity is very important and the bees know this!
Oh interesting! That explains why they don't just mate in the hives! I was like why risk going out at all but your comment explains it thank you very much
@@WhitneyDahlin You're very welcome! I do a lot of talking about bees both on my youtube channel as well as on my Truth Frequency Radio show if you're interested in learning more. I will be having some awesome beekeeper guests coming up soon.
@@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork yes! I am very interested! Thank you very much I subscribed! ❤️
@@WhitneyDahlin Awesome! Thanks for subbing!
Which is a good theory, but for the fact that because multiple colonies are genetically related to the same queen, there really isn't all that much genetic diversity within any given species within genius Apis (consisting of 11 species of honey bees and related species).
Ahh, the late 90s, a heyday for trumpets.
To hell with that trumpet! >.
NOVA is awesome ! So many wonderful shows !!!! I could watch wildlife / nature documentaries all day.. that is after all , the only content I watch on TH-cam ... literally,.. I care nothing for the other content always being plastered all over the place ... people who don’t appreciate and enjoy observing nature and understanding into the behaviors snd lives of wildlife are Truly missing out ., id prefer just go watch a narrated documentary of the wildlife without intruding humans having to benefit off their hard work ... yeah I get it , we all have to eat .. but I am not interested in seeing Bee keepers and their camera time .. wish they’d just talk about and show the bees !!
And no one mentions they’re excellent mathematicians, by using a hexagonal shape, it’s the most efficient shape possible!
Who else wanted the moth to get caught? 🙋🏾♂️
Bees represent vishnu which is pretty litttt🔥🔥🔥❤
The epic bee fighting music they make is the coolest part to me
the moth is likely a female. My experience is the honeybees carry enough honey when they swarm to begin building comb. They usually stop, briefly, near the old colony to organise, then fly to a site scouts already have found. I am in Florida, so our warmer climate changes things a lot
Ya know, I had seriously wondered about that ....1oz wax=1lb honey,and how they were able to get the comb started... Glad I read your post, unraveled that knot in the back of my mind
Thanks lol
@@kevinserpa9423 that's why you see swarms fly slowly, and why the bees are mellowed-out in a swarm- they are full of honey-it is also why, when I actively am working in the beesiness,I try to hive the swarm as soon As I can- so they dont waste their energy.
Bees that have absconded might not fit the pr
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According to all known laws
of aviation,
there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway
because bees don't care
what humans think is impossible.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Ooh, black and yellow!
Let's shake it up a little.
Barry! Breakfast is ready!
Ooming!
Hang on a second.
Hello?
- Barry?
- Adam?
- Oan you believe this is happening?
- I can't. I'll pick you up.
Looking sharp.
Use the stairs. Your father
paid good money for those.
Sorry. I'm excited.
Here's the graduate.
We're very proud of you, son.
A perfect report card, all B's.
Very proud.
Ma! I got a thing going here.
- You got lint on your fuzz.
- Ow! That's me!
- Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.
- Bye!
Barry, I told you,
stop flying in the house!
- Hey, Adam.
- Hey, Barry.
- Is that fuzz gel?
- A little. Special day, graduation.
Never thought I'd make it.
Three days grade school,
three days high school.
Those were awkward.
Q. Does the honey bee actually die if it stings the wasp? If it's stinger barbs don't go far enough into the wasp then I can't see it ripping it's abdomen rear off and hence shouldn't die?
bees dont actually die when stinning wasps, only animals with skin thick enough for barbs
The Drones in the hive DONT mate with the hive queen. They go out to mate with a different queen.
Ya like jazz
Any tipe of bees are important
I using pure honey while watching this🍯🐝🌻👍
33:52 guitar plays for hornet attack lolll good job!
That sounds like a violin to me, but I agree :)
"Just an ordinary day of birth, death, sex and violence. And it's not even noon yet."
🐝🐝🐝
I love this one
I think I now understand the term "busy bee" 😆
1:17 Daaaaamn that’s harsh- but that’s sweet sweet brutal mama nature.
Don't you wonder what the hell that Wasp was really thinking? I mean what's the game plan there?
The fact that bees go kamikaze to protect the hive makes me love them even more.
I have only one thing to say. " thank you"
This is insane and a very good documentary.
Great video. Really enjoyed it.
Has there ever been an accurate treatment of the trail of the colony collapse disorder? Where indeed did it start? I read at one point that it originated in Israel? Where do we stand with its control presently?
Did anyone else search this up?
Can someone comment as to the type of hives shown in this video? I liked how the frames are accessed from the back versus on top... you never have to pull them fully apart). What are they called?
havent watched the entire video but that sounds like an AZ hive or Slovenian style
@@thomaskusar5816 thanks for that....
What a engineer the bees making honey for us and them what busy lifestyle in bee's i like learning about bee's
I shouldn't watch that wasp attack, just before bedtime!