Thankfully that idea didn't last long. - Bees can do much better jobs in terms of pollination than those robots much more cheaply. To pollinate, you need a huge colony of bees to do those effectively.
"The Secret Afterlife of Bees ." "There's a 70 pound bee hive deep inside a wall of my house. Bees flow in and out of the window, a swarm of breeze dancing throughout the day.We must get rid of them.
And it's not a ridiculous theory. Bees are wild and I think they should stay wild.
And it's not a ridiculous theory. Bees , they move into cavities on their own.
And it's not a ridiculous theory. Bees kind of facilitate the mating dance between plants.
So you get lower turnover. Bees certainly do, there's no leader in a beehive.
all that golden beeswax lighting up the ancient world, all that honey sweetening Medieval Europe, all those bees timeless templates for the most diverse human projects and ideologies. Bees took over. But then a plague of winged ants invaded my living room. And after they left, I began thinking of locustsand then beetles, all those beetles.
What he found was three things. Beeswax, which you only find if there's honey. Rice, he found traces of rice.
But if that's true, then how do you explain this? Worker bees will sting predators to protect the hive, even though it might kill them in the process. Female worker ants are sterile, so they can't reproduce, but regardless, they work for the colony for their entire lives until they die.
So to talk about pollination services, obviously there's a lot of discussion today about how the bumblebees and the honey bees and the solitary bees , I don't need to sound like Bubba Gump listing all the different types of bees , but or shrimp for Bubba Gump, but in this situation, what what we're losing and there's a variety of reasons why, which we'll we'll present in the next
So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive. Honey bees have really been enjoying colonizing chimneys this year.
And this is an arbitrary signal. The bees in Egypt waggle for a different period of time to indicate a certain distance. There was a huge controversy in the 1960s where some scientists said that the bees were not doing anything by way of signal with the dance.
Or the common bean, which has its stamen and pistols wrapped up, he calls it like a French horn. When bees land on those down-hanging petals, out it comes. And it dabs pollen on the back of the bee.
structures like laws which is wrong and right and education which is all about like numbing our brains to become good worker bees . That's a whole other story. So, okay. What is an indust What's something in the industrial system?
We might should understand them. Those bees who produce honey that we have been eating for our entire life, it is one type of bee
A beehive is one giant set of complex adaptive systems. The bees , as a colony, they have this very complex behavior that we can observe. But on an individual level we're looking at little tiny robots with very similar programs.
It's very common that the queen gets replaced after treatments are used. By bees . By the bees . The imbalance and the smells and all that stuff.
The imbalance and the smells and all that stuff. The bees think that something's wrong. And when something's wrong, you always go to the CEO, right?
It perverts the reproductive selection. What bees are we selecting from? If we're treating them, how do we know which ones we want?
And it's not a ridiculous theory. And bees come home because that's where their nest it.
This is a bird now, pollinating a flower, attracted to it by a scent. The bees are humming around the other one. There's nothing on the third flower because it's quite toxic, and the birds and bees don't go near it.
Dr. Jonathan Haidt: "I" passes insensibly into "we", "my" becomes "our" and individual fate lose its central importance. If bees could speak, I think this is the sort of thing that they would say. So it's because of these experiences, they are so ubiquitous; you find them all over the world, across the eons.
The Hymenoptera were the main discoverers of this way of living. The bees , wasps and ants and they are able to live in gigantic colonies with massive division of labor, and they are able to do it because they are all sisters. They suppress breeding, so they're really all in the same boat, all in the same hive.
talking about bees , or is it all kind of fair game? the bees are I could talk about bees , but I have to get further and further into life. Like, they have a queen. What is the king? The drones? How does that work out? And then how does that work to ants? And if you take that into
we're getting there. So, so that is What What was the initial question? I've just gone off on Something about bees . Oh, the bees , yes, the bees . So, that's it. I would that's what if you if you do better shows, you sort of raise the bar. You can't suddenly go out and say, "Come, you know, aren't toilets interesting?" Unless you start saying toilets okay, so we waste products. This
have bees . And nobody's said anything because we don't even notice the bees in our house. So, nobody
overwhelm us with the sound of crickets or cicadas but many are negative. And after I'd written a chapter about how amazing bees are, particularly honeybees, I wrote this chapter, which is a short chapter I want to read to you which is called My Nightmares. "For a long time, I thought only of bees .
How come? Because they didn't have electric lights. And beeswax candles put out a very bright white light and they don't produce soot. Whereas other oils and stuff produced soot and dirtied the air and dirtied the walls.
Whereas other oils and stuff produced soot and dirtied the air and dirtied the walls. So beeswax was the important thing. And we went from a time when wax was the important product and now we've got all kinds of substitutes for the beeswax
So you're not gonna have as much inertia, so you'll get pushed around more by the air, so you can't just soar through it like a bird. And that's why bees and other insects flap their wings a lot. What they're doing is generating swirls of air above the top of the wing, and those vortices create low-pressure zones.
Think the hunter-seeker from "Dune" or the killer robot bees from "Black Mirror." - You might be familiar with that like famous "Black Mirror" TV episode where all like the bees . - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
- Life is the bees knees. - Easy.
Not just the bees , right?
to my favorite-- gone to Google and type something in, OK? "The Secret Afterlife of Bees ." "There's a 70 pound bee hive deep inside a wall of my house. Bees flow in and out of the window, a swarm of breeze dancing throughout the day.
We want to come out alive, she told me. Do you know why bees die after they sting? Massive abdominal ruptures. The impact blows open their stomachs like a gunshot.
kind of an androgynous figure-- a choose your gender figure-- climbing this rope ladder to harvest exactly what we saw in the previous slide, a comb of honeycomb and with honey bees flying all around her. I like to say her because you kind of have to be a feminist to be a beekeeper.
It's very, very exciting to us. So as the bees fly out, we'll talk about how they collect that nectar. They make honey from nectar, and what they do, once they have their honey stomach full of nectar, as they fly back into the colony and they
they'll attack as a unit, as well as try to just kind of shuffle people along. If there are bees that are coming from another hive, maybe coming through to rob, they'll smell the wax glands that they have on the side of their body and be able to ID them, like a bouncer, and say, no, you're not part of our team.
Move on. And that is the final job they do before they begin to take flight. So all those bees that we've seen out on flowers are known as forager bees . And the foragers are in the last couple weeks of their life, typically in the spring and summer months, and they're working 24 hours a day,
And there's actually a really interesting morphological shift that happens in the body of the honey bee as they move from a nurse bee into a forager bee. The nurse bees are inside all the time, so they get really developed crawling muscles. The forager bees are flying outside of the colonies, so they actually have to learn to grow their wing muscles.
The nurse bees are inside all the time, so they get really developed crawling muscles. The forager bees are flying outside of the colonies, so they actually have to learn to grow their wing muscles. And so that's actually a genetic or a morphological shift that happens in these honey bees during their life cycle.
from the hive, and then three feet, and then 20 feet, and then eventually, they can actually have a five-mile flight radius in any direction. So honey bees that we see on the trees out here could be living five miles away, coming to get this luscious Bayside nectar to make their beautiful honey and bee bread.
If you look at the picture of the yellow flower, this is a honey bee doing her job of pollination. And so honey bees have really complex communication systems within their own colony. They communicate primarily through frequency and pheromone, and they also have that type of communication with flowers.
--this exact thing right here. And so the bees are busy making all of their honeycomb inside of these frames. It gives them a representation of what they might do naturally.
So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive. Africanized honey bees don't have mites.
So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive. So by treating bees and giving antibiotics consistently, it just weakens the immunity of the honey bees and it's strengthening those parasites, the mites,
So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive. So the honey bees can go and visit the medicinal flowers, actually receive some of the benefits of that medicinal plant, make medicinal honey through that,
So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive. The more bees there are around, the better.
So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive. And we funnel the bees in there, cut out all of their comb because it takes six parts honey to make one part wax, and we want
So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive. The reason that honey bees would ever be aggressive is because they're defending their territory.