Why Bumble Bees Are the Fuzzy Heroes We Need
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- If the insect world has a fuzzy, charismatic cutie, it’s surely the humble bumble bee. While insect populations are declining around the globe, bumble bees face unique threats that make them particularly vulnerable. Surveying projects across the U.S. are combining the forces of researchers and community scientists to help protect these critical native pollinators.
Our host and museum curator, Jessica Ware, Ph.D. dives inside the hive to explore why honey bees aren’t the coolest pollinator in town. And Hillary Sardiñas, the pollinator coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows us how to net a queen bumble bee and explains how you can get involved in the mission to save imperiled insects! The series is produced for PBS by the American Museum of Natural History.
Image: © Oregon Zoo / photo by Michael Durham
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Bees: Im endangered please help me
Government: Sorry the law says you're not covered
Bees: Does it help that im technically a fish?
Government: Yes sir we'll get right on it!
This is the kind of BS people have to resort to when politicians can't get new laws passed. People are so opposed to the government doing anything that the government can't help even when this is exactly the kind of thing governments are meant to do.
the weird thing is... doesn't that fish law also include invertebrates??
@@alveolateYup.
Amazingly, this is exactly the sort of logic you get out of the VA.
Not unprecedented... The Catholic church classified capybara (a BIG rodent) a fish so that the native population who relied on it could eat it on meatless Fridays.
(To be clear, good for them for bending a rule so people didn't have to needlessly suffer.)
I used to study Bumblebees and im always shouting about how we prioritize non native bees! Glad PBS Terra is amplifying the need to help our Bumblebee allies! One thing thats also super important is alot of our native flowers have a buzz lock and can only bee pollinated when bumblebees buzz at the specific frequency they need!
EDIT: I just got to you all bringing up Buzz Polination the best thing about Bombus!
You better beelieve I caught that beeautiful pun about plants beeing able to bee pollinated by our big bouncy bumbly bee friends!
It’s crazy how little appreciation native bees get!!
I've never heard of this buzz lock thing before. How does it work? Do the plants in question have petals stuck together via hydrostatic skeleton and the frequency shakes the lock loose?
Do unlocked plants re-lock or remain unlocked?
I was your 100th like
@@YouGuessIGuess I'm not a plant guy so.I mostly know about it on the bee end but basically their buzzing triggers them to release the pollen and there are certain plants who's anthers won't release until they are buzzed by the right frequency buzz!
Bumblebees are my favorite fish.
who in their right mind does not think Bumblebuddies are cute little flying teddy bears?
A few years ago, I was observing a variety of bees and wasps on my compost pile, when I noticed the bumble bees acting a bit like bouncers. At one point, a yellow jacket started harassing a smaller bee which might have been a mason bee, and a bumble bee suddenly swooped in to tackle the yellow jacket, taking it all the way down to the ground beside the pile in a rolling tumble. It confronted the yellow jacket a couple more times as it tried to attack the smaller bee again, and then once the yellow jacket backed off, the bumble bee went back to its own foraging. Once I saw that, I paid more attention and saw other bumble bees also pushing yellow jackets away from smaller bees.
The last time I was stung by a bee, it was a bumble bee that I didn’t notice in the violets I was transferring into a container. It was the tiniest, shallowest little prick against my palm, followed by a buzzing lecture. I apologized.
I initially thought you were referring to the bee as a tiny, shallow little prick lol
Rumblebees.
Bumblefish
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Heck yeah! Wasps are jerks. I'm rooting for the bumblebees everytime! Lol
I used to have a patio garden at my last apartment, I would take pictures of all the different pollinators I had visit. Bumblebees were one of my favourite! They were the earliest, most frequent visitors. I even set up a bird bath with a shallow end so they could rehydrate on warm summer days.
We would have a single bumble bee that would visit my strawberry garden and would do so daily. If we werent outside it would buzz my trailer door looking for us. I got to teach my daughter how to pet one.
The state of Virginia just made the (European) honey bee its official state pollinator. Better than nothing, but I did write my legislator asking them to go for a native bumblebee instead.
Interesting. I live in Virginia (Portsmouth) and I had no idea "state pollinator" was even a thing.
When the invasive animal gets more recognition than the native bees. That’s so sad.
@@charlesajones77it would be helpful if you could spread the word/or send a letter to legislators, petitioning for bumblebees
Last summer, my work shed that had all my tools and equipment in it was colonized by bumblebees.
It was kind of funny, because at first, i was unaware and kept hearing a funny noise everytime i bumped a specific spot, that i couldnt find.
Only sometimes would i hear this noise.
Day after day i was just like, "what is that?"
When i finally realized it was bees, i then had to locate them.
I could see them coming in, but had no idea where they were going.
So i started bumping into things to listen for that strange sound again.
I was so pleased to finally be invaded by bees rather than yellowjackets that i immediately Loved them.
I was still afraid of them, and wanted them out, and finally located them in a cardboard boxthat had a dovetail device in it.
So i waited for the right time, 2am, to gently grab the box as it vibrated and buzzed and quickly took it to a nice cool spot in a different unused chicken coop.
They were my little bumble budees
🐝💛🖤💛🖤💛
I'm so glad they pointed out that we've been wasting our conservationism on honeybees just because they're the bee species that makes us money. Finally i have a video to pull up when someone suggests keeping backyard hives as a solution to "save the bees"
in Spain they even made an outdoor testing and showed that Honey bees (even theyr native to Europe) will harm the evoriment more then help it
Honey bees are only good for pollination of huge crop fields or fruit bushes/trees
cause wild polinators would be simply overwhelmed with that many flowers
It is quite self-serving. We need to save the bees from the bees!
I mean its like saving grazers by breeding and releasing cows, honeybees as we know them are domesticated animals
@@astick5249 only in the US ,Australia etc
Africa and Europe /Asie have wild honey bees
but these nests arent as calm and nice to humans as the ones beekeepers have
beekeepers generally eratuicate wild honey bee nests
cause they will breed with domesticatet ones
and give the " wild" agressive " genes to them
and humans cant handle getting stung by theyr own bees
they want tzo put theyr entire hand inside without the bees doing anything
but thats also why these bees are so frail to bear,hornet etc attacks
cause they will then also dont really fight back
We put so much effort into saving the wrong bees meanwhile our native bees get pushed out by the invasive species.
when i was young i met a very cute fluffy black and yellow bee.
it fly and i walk , we accidentally bumped on each other.
it flied and bang on my glassess.
so we stop and stare for a moment
is like telling sorry
i never had closed up with bee in my whole life
is so cute and fluffy
never forget that ever
OMG! That's so cute!🥹
@@sapphirejade5029 started on that day , learn life about animal, they had emotions too
I love your beautiful poem. Made my day better. Please never lose your perspective. ❤ @@leongliyang6946
This must be a poem
I grew up in SD, & I saw more bumblebees than I did honeybees. I wish I’d appreciated them more back then 💔
I feel like almost every time I think I see a bumble bee these days, it's actually a carpenter bee.
New favorite insect acquired.
Bumblebees are awesome 😎
Transformer Bumblebee come to my head 😂😂😂 with this comment
Red flowers are for hummingbirds. 🥀🌹🐦 🥀🌹🐦 🥀🌹🐦
in Europe where no Hummingbirds exist
red flowers simply get pollinatet by Bumblebees and Moths
Bumblebees visit our pink, red, and purple azaleas every spring.
@@Kurominos1 Aw, now I'm very sad for Europeans. Still mostly envious, mind, but hummingbirds are delightful.
@@QuesoCookies we have actually a huge amount of hummingbird-hawk moths some who are getting bigger the most hummingbirds
theyr also way more sturdieer then real hummingbirds
like the deathskull-hawkmoth flys all the way from madagascar to central europe right over the seas with no problem somethign a hummingbird never could do cause it have to drink every few minutes to not starve
@@Kurominos1 Hummingbird hawk-moths are great, indeed, but hummingbirds are more than just the mystique of sustaining stationary flight while feeding on nectar. Hummingbirds are packed with personality and have vigorous territorial disputes, which can lead to really complex social dynamics and dazzling, high-speed, and acrobatic conflicts. Hummingbird-hawk moths win on impressive endurance given the nature of the shared flying style, but hummingbirds win on pizzazz.
That's so cute that they 'play'. Thanks for this valuable video filled with extremely necessary information. I love this channel.
I wonder how does a bumblebee fly given its small wings compared to their big bodies😁
@@b01tact10n With small flyers air reacts differently. For them, creating vortexes below them gives a lot of upward boost. They do this by putting their wings vertical and swishing them back and forth quickly. Humming birds do the exact same thing. For a small creature it is vastly more energy efficient and also enables them to hover and move backward and side to side with precision. Pretty cool, eh?
Edit for typo
@@JilynnFurlet what about 90's Charles Barkley😁👍👍
If you have a yard, leave some dandelions, clover and anything else that blooms in early spring for the bees. It’s the first food they have access to when they’re waking up after the long winter. Plus, a lot of these plants can be beneficial to humans too.
I currently have a yard full of dandelions and a giant clover patch and I’ve been seeing a few bees and lots of little yellow butterflies.
Dandelions are nonnative and their pollen is not very nutritious. You're better off planting native plants, especially trees and shrubs. Most native plants are helpful for dozens or even hundreds of species besides just bees.
@@pendlera2959 Of course you can still plant more flowers, I wasn’t saying not to. My comment was more aimed at folks who start mowing the second the weather turns.
Dandelion tea is good for supporting your liver health. And young leaves taste better than the old ones ( bitter ). Just don't harvest near areas that have exposure to exhaust fumes and other harmful chemicals. The dandy's are everywhere, good luck trying to get rid of them.@@pendlera2959
Ah yes, the California buzzing fish. Quite the specimen to see on an average walk through a garden. Water? I'm sure there is a puddle somewhere around here.
~70% of the average animal is water. Ergo, all animals are at least 70% fish.
@@alexv3357"Water = fish" - guy on TH-cam 2024
Also, the jumping ribbit fish and even web-weaving fish... lol.
@@AkitaAttribute Is it just me or did my comment disappear? I can't see it
@@alexv3357Yeah unless I click on the notification, I can't even see this comment you just made.
I recently bought an acre of land and seeded it with native flowers! I so hope I get some bumblestumblebees
Good luck with the little buzzers!🤞
Another former bee scholar commenting. Thank you for this video!
I love the bumblebees that I see here in the Alaskan wilderness!
Change the pesticides we use. That's the best way to protect the bees. My friend in southern Ontario is losing more bee hives each year and they are only dying after the crops are sprayed.
Never knew how diverse bumblebees are! Hopefully we can help get their population numbers back up.
This woman is beautiful, smart, compassionate....Definitely a keeper
love bumble bees so much❤ i find them sleeping in flowers all over my garden
They look like a little pompom poofball with little wings and they're so cute!
I think our weird hatred of dandelions is a big reason for the drop in numbers. First, there's not enough of them and secondly the pesticides poison the bees. If we have to have lawns (for some reason) I would rather see them with spots of yellow instead of uniform green.
Dandelions are nonnative and their pollen is not very nutritious. You're better off planting native plants, especially trees and shrubs. Most native plants are helpful for dozens or even hundreds of species besides just bees.
What the other guy said. Plus, dandelions are definitely not low in number, it's rare to not see a few patches in the suburbs, and they thrive on hostile, heavily mowed lawns or empty lots while tolerating a wide range of pollutants. Only the most potent stuff will kill them, which I suppose can be linked to a threat to bumblebees, but only because everything else is being killed worse than the targeted dandelions.
There are several weedy plants native to America that are far more beneficial to bumblebees and many other native pollinators, like beebalm, milkweed, common-blue violets (more beneficial to smaller pollinators like sweat bees), shooting star, and various native nightshades. If these are growing around, you're better off encouraging them to thrive.
@chitinskin9860 ever since I was a kid, I usually don't mind seeing dandelions. My parents NEVER used ANY sort of chemical on the front and back yards. Ever since then, we get MANY bumblebees around the warm seasons.
@@sapphirejade5029 It's great that your property isn't polluted, should mean it's more tolerable for things less hardy than dandelions too. An addition of the flowers I mentioned would make the bumblebees even more abundant, along with many other pollinators.
@@chitinskin9860 we also don't use pesticides on the yard, too, and I don't care about what people think about what my lawn looks like. I grew up around many forests surrounding my childhood home, and I would hike around there from time to time. I see some little bumblebees hanging out and smile knowing the little guys are getting what they need to survive: Lots of pollen and nectar. In turn, I get to see the wonderful flowers and photograph them for the memories, even with a little one on them gorging away for the long run. I respect them and in turn, I see their wonderful work in the many flowers and trees I see while hiking.😊
it's especially important that we start and continue to support native bees as environmental conditions change. hopefully we can rally support for insects like beetles, and dragonflies too, even if they are a little freeky lookin'
Great content as always PBS Terra! I love these videos, they're entertaining and educational. Who doesn't LOVE a big fuzzy bumble bee!!!? So cute, they're curious and super friendly!
I have special little bee and butterfly pools in my garden❤️🐝🤗
Started calling them flying pandas. ;) I love bees. Thanks for the video! Very informative, and fun!
a symbiotic relationship. I plant native plants rich in nectar and pollen to supplement my vegetable garden. pollinators return the favour by increasing yields.
They are so chunky and fuzzy and cute.
they're definitely less scary than carpenter bees... those jet black ones are kinda shocking when they show up suddenly.
YES! They're so cute!
They're so fuzzy and cute
I loved watching bumble bees go around their day was i was kid, they're just so cute.
UnBEElievable!
Just moved to Cali, I'll try my best to help!
Almost all the flowers shown in this video are flowers I grow. Tithonia, Monarda, Salvia Farinacea, Echinacea, Asclepias, Vaccinium. Other fantastic natives, specifically with blue/purple flowers, include New England Aster, American Wisteria, certain Spiderwort species, and Vernonia Gigantea.
Bumblebees are literally the ONLY loud buzzing insect I can stand to be around. Everything else, even carpenter bees with no sting and honeybees that are just bros looking for pollen, startle me more often than not, and since I'm phobic about wasps - it's not a good time. But bumblebees are somehow less upsetting, relatively speaking - I can watch a bumblebee a few feet from me and be OK. If I see a wasp all the way across my yard I'm running back inside immediately!
Still not letting them walk on me tho :P
I’ve pet a bumble bee before (granted barely touching them with one finger, but still). They’re the gentile giants of pollinators, and how can we not save em? They’re so cute
Hopefully we can see these are keystone creatures. As well as Beavers, starfish, Prarie dogs, Sea Otters, oysters, mangroves, etc. I really hope we can rewild a bunch of these important creatures. I live in Oregon and I wish we would rewild a ton of beavers and work on the native salmon runs, as well as lamprays and sturgeon. Will have to rewild certain waterways but if we build new power plants we wouldn't have to rely on damming the rivers to produce electricity. Modern advancements have actually given modern advanced nuclear energy options a chance to be an acceptable efficient low emissions power source.. We just need to agree to give it another chance now that so much has advanced around that field of study and all the aspects it takes to create something like that.
To buzz pollinate.
They're our little fuzzy friends.
Thank you bumblebee.
(Haiku 😉😊)
I love it when she stops mid sentence because she saw a bumble bee! She was like "omg I was JUST talking about youuu!"
Once again, thank you for the information and video! And all the hard work/ having a blast that went into it! Yay earth month!
That was amazing. Very well done. Thank you!
We need more native everything including crops.
Found a big bumblegal bumping on my dining room window and held out a card and she walked right onto it. Carried her onto some flower boxes and she grabbed onto those flowers for dear life and walked around and around like she was starving! Sticking her proboscis in every flower, covering her head in a pollen hat. Poor girl must have been exhausted and badly needed to refuel. At one point the heavy little thing was holding onto a very small pansy which dropped under her weight so I supported the flower petal beneath her. When she was done, she just crawled onto my fingertip, so I gave her a ride from flower to flower for a bit until she had enough energy to fly and go on her way. Lucky I found her on the window in time. The feeling of her gently holding my fingertip made my heart feel fuzzy just like a bumblebee. Amazing little creatures they are! ❤
Bumble bees are cool
I planted sages and other native plants on neighborhood sidewalk strips this Winter/Spring. Saw some honeybees so far
Thank you for your inspiring work, I love watching the bumbles in my little pollinator gardens! ☀️
Mount Diablo! Oh how I miss your silhouette on the horizon
That was fun and informative. Thanks for putting together this video.
Absolutely adore your energy and smile! 😁✨🐝💖💎✨
Bumbles! I have had a serious friendship with a Bumblebee. ❤
I have seen Bumbles in Huntington Oregon. Not lots but Some.
There is a massive, invasive, European honey been farm about a mile from my house with what looks like a couple hundred hives. It is great that all my flowers get pollinated but it is never by native bees anymore like when I was a kid and before that farm was put up. Whenever I’m outside these days all I see is the European bees from that farm and never the cute fat fuzzy babies I miss :( that farm single handedly decimated my native been population and I’m sure many other native pollinators are gone now too :(
European honey bees are introduced, not invasive. They're only considered invasive if they do significant harm to the native ecosystem.
Maybe you can try growing unhybridized native plants. European bees tend to be less attracted to native flowers since they sometimes have structures that don't really accommodate them. Particularly good are natives that support specialist native bees. Some examples in my region (southeast) are penstemons and blueberries. The Xerces Society has checklists for each region of the US.
Excellent episode!
I was reading the forest service’s info on bumblebee’s and learned that they can shiver go warm up. Cutest thing ever
Thank you, good humans! For watching out for our bumble bees! We need all of you! 🐝😌
I love those fuzzy buzzers. My yard is optimized for native species of birds, fauna and insects. It's amazing what you see in❤❤ the spring
Correct me if im wrong,but im pretty sure honey bees are stable and its the other species of bees that are endangered no?
Correct, honey bees are typically classified as domesticated livestock and are bred at scale. Any European honeybee you see is either a feral bee, or probably belongs to someone with a backyard hive. One of the challenges that exists in protecting native pollinators is that hobby apiarists. The rules are pretty loose, so you can get a lot of these domesticated bees in a very small area competing for resources. The denser the population, the more likely they are to spread parasites and diseases to native pollinators.
This video reminded me that I wanted to make some bee houses. All you gotta do is get some wood, drill holes of various sizes in it to about 4" depth, and secure it several feet off the ground. Or you can cut bamboo sections and put them into a tin can or a small box. I finally built them and hung them up before writing this :)
Fabulous!!! Really love this arrangement.
California was a really interesting place to survey around because I found they have agricultural sites, take 10% of the lot and convert it into a solar farm that then was used as a local flora and bee colony habitat. The use of solar panels for shade and added Bee keeping facilities, while requiring it use local flowers & such.
The bumblebees in my California neighborhood suffer from coming into my home all the time.
I catch them and put them outside, of course, but the only plants I have are carnivorous and non-flowering vines, so there is no food in here for them.
Still, I captured and released three over the weekend.
you can find native flower seed packets. depending on which region in California you are.
I love all the "Bees" but the buzz of a bumble bee buzzing where I can't see it raises the hair on my neck instantly .. :) .. save them please, I do love watching them ..
You have not lived until you have experienced the buzzy little hummel bee happily buzzing a little tune while at work in a flower. Pure joy. (And they are sting-less.)
This is really great. I just set up a bee hive and a bumble bee got a cameo in my video.
"either there is no fish at all, or we are fish" so, therefore, bees ARE indeed fish! ;)
We ARE fish, but bees are not (except in the minds of California politicians, who may not be humans). Check out the series "Your Inner Fish".
My mom grows Dahlias. On cool summer mornings, I like to walk among the flowers and check out all the bumblebees (and other pollinators) sleeping in the flowers. I’ll pet them, and have even held them (picked some up off the ground). They are my favorite
Yay native bees!!
It says my state has seen them wiped out, but i know i saw bumblebees sleeping overnight on my sunflowers last fall during a sudden cold snap. :) I'll plant more this year.
I live in Exira Iowa southwest area, I have 3 types of bumbles and 2 wild honey species that over winter in my garden, the bumbles love nesting next to my lupine plants and feed off of my double hyacinth in early march
Great episode!
This the only bug i nvr ever got disgusted by during my lifetime of sketchin out whenever a bug gets to close
If it makes PBS feel any better, I spent two years and probably more money than I should have turning my property into a Native Garden. Bumblebees liked my property even before the transformation, but they seem to LOVE it now. I've also seen other native bees enjoying the flowers and tree-blossoms. Bumblebees are big but harmless if you just let them bee (pun).
YAY mom !!
💚🌎🌍🌏💚 Amazing video! Thanks for posting.
Now I'm curious what kind of toys do bumblebees like. Do they like tiny skateboards? Slides? ferris wheels?
I always get excited when I see my bumblebee friends buzzing around! I wish I knew how to help them nest in my yard. I’m on Long Island
I grow honey suckles around my house. Bumble bees 🐝 love them. Just doing my part 😊
Their fish canning amazing, especially like the tuna
Thank you for promoting native bees, native plants, and which flowers are best. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I love the yellow faced bumble bee!
Native CA bees look so weird compared to honeybees. I didn't even know that they existed until I took a native habitat class.
Thank you 🙏
I find this fascinating 🤔
I love bumbles!
We have bumblebee populations in Washington! I see them daily and plant flowers on my property for them.
Bumblebees are the cutest
Lovely présenter.
We need to focus on native pollinators. Every flowering plant has a pollinator evolved *specially* to it, a direct and symbiotic relationship. *Much* more efficient than using a "general pollinator". You need 20,000 general pollinators to pollinate an orchard that could be pollinated by just 200 apple bees. It pushes out a disproportionately large number of native "niche pollinator" species to give so many resources to honey bees and bumble bees.
I saw one on a flower bush thing where i was living in Maryland and slowly came up to it then i gave it a little scritch 🙂
I love Bumblebees they are so chubby and fluffy, a flying panda
I need more bumblebees and carpenters! Who else is gonna get me my tomatoes 🍅
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Greatest threat to bumble bees in my backyard is my indoor cat who likes to hunt when I take her out and I have to run after her to stop her from accomplishing her hunt
When I was a small thing, I remembered cupping a bumblebee in my hand
I could feel its prickly fur as it bumped around in my hand, but it didn't sting me
Then I opened my hand and it flew away
They also vote for their new home and they reach 100% consensus not just majority
last week there was a bumbler in my basement and one in my garage.
I love my bumblebees, people are so afraid of them, but as a horticulturist I know that they don’t sting, I keep telling them how harmless they are, indeed they are necessary for plant life.
they are cute, i know sometimes a cali bumble bee will vibrate my tomato plant flowers