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- ABC News’ Ginger Zee breaks down the potential negative impact of hobby honey beekeeping on the 200 native American bees that are at the biggest risk of extinction.
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Yes, exactly, if people want to help bees, grow nectar producing plants
It's good to see this issue getting some buzz!!!
I feel bad because I don't wanna gatekeep in a hobby. But I'm new to beekeeping but I have also been obsessed with it for years and wanted to do it for so long.
I don't want to call anyone undedicated or disparage people but most people are dilettante hobbyists. They do beekeeping because "LIKE OMG SAVE THE BEES!!." Suddenly this is trendy and hip and people who haven't studied it and don't study it are becoming "beekeepers"
These people aren't beekeepers they're BEE HAVERS.
@@HappyHussar and your problem with that is?
@@ourgeorgiasuburbanhomestea6309 many of these hobbyists are not responsible, and allow diseases to go unchecked, and spread to other colonies and native bees (edit for spelling)
Beekeepers all get upset if you don't don't keep your bees exactly like them. Everyone knows they are doing it "the only right way".
I have been waiting on environmentalists to scream out that our bees are an "invasive species".
Everything from Europe is evil and needs to be eliminated.
@@jonathanlehr9206 many european plants seem to have "naturalized" just fine and haven't become invasive but rather fit in well with native plants and pollinators. however, there are many that are invasive and outcompete native plants which the native pollinators need to survive
I have an arrangement with 2 beekeepers to put hives on my farm north of Houston. So far, they have 4 hives. When they first set the hives up, we almost caught a wild swarm. They must not have had a queen and either moved on or joined the 4 hives. I also recently purchased a hive of a captured swarm from friends who were moving out of state. Our area saw a loss of bees in the great freeze in February. And lots of rain washed away the pollen and nectar they need to survive and make honey. I'm hoping we get any honey this fall. You have to leave some honey in the hive for them to eat all winter. So much to learn about keeping bees.
the point of this story is to stop doing this as a trendy hobby. plant native wildflowers instead to help native pollinators
@E S And you are a bot.
@@brucecarter8296 The hive I purchased is a wild caught swarm. They still need a place to build. Better than someone's house. I'm now planning on more wildflowers and both pollen and nectar sources. In return for supporting htem, I get some honey, though not much this year. Been a rough year.
@@lynnbetts4332 a wild caught swarm is still the same invasive species
Haha there are lots of breeds of honey bee in the US. A captured local hive will always have the highest chance of survival..... Lynn Betts is awesome for what they are doing.crack a bee book and you'll see.
Here in the mountains in SoCal, I 've seen 6 bees this year, all in my herb garden. Ten years ago there was a roaring buzz in my garden and everywhere else, thousands of bees.
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If you dont like the birds and the bees get solar panels.
@@Odin33356 ???
@@qassandraable I had crow all over my house until I put solar panels on it but they say they aren't old enough for us to know if they affect the environment.
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@@qassandraable nothing timeliness global warming more than solar panels just like Nothing timeliness power outages more than crypto currencies.
Anybody else think the anchor is doing a Saturday Night Live skit in the beginning 😂😂😂
You want to know what’s wrong with the bees? Varroa. Not one mention of it in this report.
3 predators.... Mites, moths, beetles. Ants are just annoying. Not hard to keep all these in check with inspections once a month.... VERY VERY EASY!!!
Deforestation effects on bee population should have been mentioned, otherwise, outstanding report.
deforestation...including golf courses and lawns
Also agricultural spraying wiped out thousand of hives in the last 50yrs.
Been telling people this for past few years. Bees are not endangered. The numbers have been manipulated and unnaturally increased by humans. The number of " domesticated bees" are the majority of the so called lost bees. Wild bees are competing with hives daily for survival
That’s not true, the number of domesticated hives hasn’t changed drastically for at least the past 20 years, there’s been a slight steady growth but its very small considering the size of the industry in the US alone. That mean Wild bees haven’t been having to compete with domesticated bees much more then usually for at least the past 20 years
We must help the bees!
the native ones, that is
All of them we need all of them
I have bee colonies around my home
no crime since I installed them
neighbors are thinking about getting some
they don't bark but they are effective
ha ha ha... maybe that is working here, too
I have a hive and love it. Our native population boomed this year as well. We are very lucky. Bees are dieing regardless if native or not. People really need to change how they take care and how they plant in their yard. Oh and not spray...people are increasing the issue by using chemicals and those stupid mosquito spraying omg. Just get bat houses lol..OK done my rant
If we’re talking and hearing about native bees, it would be very helpful to the viewers to have some visual examples of them! All we’re seeing in this video while discussing native bees are shots of honeybees!
Monoculture (agriculture crops and grass lawns) is the biggest problem creator for native bees. Examples are corn and soybean crops in the Midwest being very low on resources for native bees and honeybees. People with grass lawns literally own a dead zone of land that pollinators will never benefit from.
We keep mutts. “Native bees” ARE our bees. Some Italian bees are already naturalized. We SAVE bees. The non native invasive Verroa mite is killing our bees. They don’t want us to have food freedom. Take our bees away, they control food. And those tree cut outs we do... those are most certainly our bees. Bees swarm. We try to catch swarms but some we don’t. The ones like some in cutouts that are healthy and make it are rare. Most don’t. Monsanto has gmo queens. Then there are commercial beekeepers they contract. Beekeepers. Just like us but with thousands of stressed hives. Those beekeepers bring truckloads of hives to monocultures like Monsanto’s. Bill Gates is the largest shareholder in Monsanto. He’s also bought 90% of farmland. They’ll outlaw bees so food can be controlled. He’s also one of the big benefactors of this flu vax. Think. Why would you need that for something w a 98.8% recovery rate. Wake up. Please.
I'm starting a permaculture project in a former pasture, and there's a lot of catnip. I plan to include it in every guild, because the catnip buzzes on a warm day.
In my small beds last summer, I had to hand pollinate zucchini, and I had no rosehips. That bed is getting some catnip this year.
Add some mason bees and provide housing that requires minimal care from you, and watch your yield grow!
Catnip is a great plant to have around. It comes in handy made into tea to help relax at the end of a stressful day. I sometimes mix it with lavender, chamomile and honey. hmmm
catnip is not native to america, and can become invasive. it is useful, but if you are growing some, keep it from getting out of control by harvesting seeds before they drop
AWESOME 😎
Oh abc saw the DW documentary, OH BOY !!!
Or you could get rid of your grass...plant native pollinator friendly plants. We have a beehive and have both our girls and many native bees. Our native bee populations actually grew a lot this year. I hear a lot of native only people complaining...but I am sorry in our home we don't have an issue at all. Get rid of your grass!!!
I hope this catches on in the near future. I’m working on turning my lawn into a native meadow, though it’s a grueling process.
You know what also hurts bees ? How society is owned that poisoned us and bees systematically and lied to about it. 🤷♀️
ABC needs to talk about ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees.
How is trucking their homes around the country any good?
A colony moved into a large tree stump along our driveway this spring, and I have been studying bees since. I may set up swarms traps in the Spring. I believe now, that we have at least 3 colonies on our property. But what shocked me the most is learning there are no laws against killing bee colonies. If a colony moved into a house, barn, or outbuilding, there is no law that prevents calling an exterminator to have them killed. Yes, it can be costly to have a beekeeper do the removal, but that should be lawfully how it is done.
Hobby beekeeping isn't going to interrupt the ecosystem as long as there is Monsanto or round up around.
There is no cross over. Native bees are built for Native plants. There is no threat to Native species from axis malifera malifera.
Bee positive during these hard times. COVID-19 is hard on folks.
I know. That 99.8% recovery rate is hard on folks.
🐝 helpful
A few years ago it was a bee-apocalypse, now this. Both stories take a tiny bit of truth and then twist it into something it’s not. That’s today’s ‘journalism’.
Wow, who would have guessed that multiple issues can exist?
Update: my ivy went into bloom and suddenly thousands of bees showed up. The ivy covers a huge dead sycamore tree, making a 'bush' 30 feet high, and it is covered with bees. You can hear the buzzing inside my house. There are no beekeepers around here so I bet they are wild, native bees. So glad!
Ginger ☺☺☺
Einstein said no bees -> no food!
Loss of habit for native bee's is the greatest reason for thier decline. Deforestation , agriculture and manicured lawns . Human habitat are pushing out the native bee ergo they have to be replaced with a species that tolerates humanity and the European honey bee fills the niche.
When you quote colony loss numbers... you are not really giving the whole story. 40% is the losses. But there are also gains. 40% is not a net loss. There is actually a net gain over time. That is not to say this data is unimportant, but that it continually gets reported incorrectly.
Lol wrote a paper on this 4 years ago.
Why did they step up on the bench? Lol
I just want to be a Gardener ....
That salad is full of leafy greens...
bees pollinate the flowers that produce seeds for greens in including kale, lettuce, pac choi, beet greens, etc
The bee loss data comes from new beekeepers and hobbyists. If I lost 40% of my hives in a year I would do the bees a favor and quit beekeeping. All these new beekeepers kill their bees in the first two or three years and then give up. No worries.
Wrong. I have been keeping bees for 20 years. I’ve had 40% loss most years. Dam mites from Asia
except that their sick hives spread disease to others
Agreed. Anything over 10% and you need to reevaluate your IPM strategy or get out.
So many old timers didn't adjust to varroa and either quit or made high colony losses seem normal. This, in combination with a flood of new beeks, is driving the absurd 40% loss.
Wv Mike you my friend hit the nail on the damn head
@@larrytornetta9764 sounds like you may want to take up a new hobby
If it wasn't said, European bees are not natural here. The fact is, even without the European bees most plants are pollinated by native bees and insects like it was for centuries and longer before they were brought here. So the claim that plants would die off or not be pollinated without implied Europeans is false. The only reason people have Europeans is for honey that is about it.
We've imported many crops that require honey bee pollination. There is room for both honey bee and native pollinators. They are not mutually exclusive. We keep both solitary bees and honey bees on our property. They are not in competition. But the native solitary bees are being killed by habitat destruction, pesticide use and loss of food sources. So, whereas you are correct that the European honeybee is not native here, neither are many of the crops that they do pollinate, so now they are absolutely necessary to keep our food supply healthy.
it was said, but many ppl in comments are so full of themselves and their trendy hobby, they couldn't hear it. (edit) however, you are wrong about honey being the only reason ppl have them.
@E S First, there are not millions of colonies, second native bees can do just fine. Case in point if honey bees went extinct plants would still be pollinated like long before they were imported.
@@brucecarter8296 name another? Profit ? Maybe
@@ourgeorgiasuburbanhomestea6309 nope your mistaken on that perception
Like everything else it's just a fad. I have bee friendly plants near my garden, that's good enough.
I keep my garden meticulously organic and plant bee specific food plots. But how can we stop there and call it good? If I continue to see far fewer honey bees visiting, it’s not a question of providing enough food. We need widespread protective action to limit use to only bee friendly chemicals or more natural ways to farm crops!. The rapid decline of honey bees is affecting the health and productivity of of our food plants!
@@AnnaMorris411 well, the story was about hobby bee keepers, not chemicals. In my opinion bee keeping has much to do with the absence of bees as well as native plants and flowers for them to pollinate. I work as a community organizer for a nonprofit that deals with food insecurity. Two years ago I partnered with another nonprofit to plant a bee ring around the neighborhood that I live and work in. We planted bee habitats in the parking strips so that bees could easily travel from one place to the next, it's 8 miles long. So I'm doing my part.
Once a beekeeper always a beekeeper
The most ignorant answer that if'e read in decades. ..
@@jenniferschmitzkatze1244 I highly doubt that
This isn't hard buy local bees every April/May ,I don't care where you are, someone in your state has local bees.
I'm confused as to what problem that solves...
@@597ryan6mostly trying to keep new bee keepers keeping bees. Alot of people give up after their hive swarms or dies. Also it slows disease spread, local bees have immunities to different things. Alot of people don't realize they may be in an area that the breed of bee they buy isn't hardy enough to survive in.
@@salmoneye7669 100% agree. Non-local package bees are a huge waste. I've seen package bees arrive with drone laying queens...a few were even DOA.
New beeks should always start with two nucs, local is ideal. As a plus, it puts you in contact with a local apiary that can offer support & advice.
Yeap local bees bought and shipped to them from commercial apiary in Florida
Millions of bees have been killed off yet more biblical signs we are near the end once bees are gone so are we.
Yeap by bad keeping practices by commercial beekeepers
Native bees are losing habitat.
Bees population is super low in California. It may become a crisis for our food supply.
Why did she need to step onto the bench
l get what you mean... it was awkward. To fit into the camera frame better, I guess.
Maybe she felt cool while doing it
Short
Also, why did she disregard the info she was given in the last part of the video just to report her own narrative.
“What people can do to help”
Guest: I’m going to suggest that people plant native plants that are native our area, and are not a horticultural variety.”
Reporter: “plant plants that bees like”
Monocultural farming (America is probably the world’s worst offender…) is a bigger problem than small-scale beekeepers… if farms set aside 3% of their farmland for floral planting you’d see plenty of native pollinators thriving… it is also cheaper than spending a small fortune shipping mass numbers of hives across the continent…🤷♂️
italian honeybees are a native breed of honey bee, they are like dogs they have many breeds of honeybee which just have italian in the name
This depends on where you live. No apis melifera bee is native to the USA, which is where the report is concerning.
Ah… the BEE variant of the COVID comes to light.
Hahahaha BS!
Who cares they're just bees.
Pollinators not just bees are more important than people realize. We eat certain food because of them. They need to be protected. Grow food not lawns.
They pollinate our food!
@@Cicero1 honey bees are an invasive insect not native to America they where brought to America's in 1700s. If we didn't need them before we don't really need them after.
@@davidhansen1311 They are managed and used to pollinate over 100 crops grown in North America, and contribute $15 billion to the US economy every year. Many crops, such as almonds, which contribute $4.8 billion to the US industry each year, rely on honey bees for more than 90% of their pollination. Globally there are more honey bees than other types of bee and pollinating insects, so it is the world's most important pollinator of food crops. It is estimated that one third of the food that we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees, but also by other insects, birds and bats.
@@davidhansen1311 www.topmastersinpublichealth.com/lists/5-reasons-why-honey-bees-are-so-important/