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These Bees Hustle to Put Food on the Table - Deep Look

These Bees Hustle to Put Food on the Table - Deep Look

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You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs! Alfalfa leafcutting bees take a punch from a flower for your ice cream. Blue orchard bees bring you almonds and sweet cherries. Plus, stingless bees protect their tasty honey in creative ways. And bindweed bees’ way of gathering pollen deserves a fashion award. 0: 15 - Honeybees and bee bread 04: 02 - Alfalfa leafcutting bees 08: 02 - Bindweed turret bees 12: 55 - Stingless bees 18: 52 - Blue orchard bees SIGN UP for Deep Look’s newsletter, Nature Unseen: JOIN our community on Patreon: SUBSCRIBE: DEEP LOOK is an ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED in San Francisco and presented by PBS Digital Studios. See the unseen at the very edge of our visible world. Explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small. --- -As they fly from bloom to bloom, honeybees mix pollen with a little nectar, honey and saliva. They haul this pollen blend back to the hive and deposit it in cells next to the developing bee larvae. This stored pollen, known as bee bread, is the colony’s main source of protein. -Every summer, alfalfa leafcutting bees in California pollinate fields from which growers harvest alfalfa seeds. Alfalfa makes a nutritious hay for dairy cows. These bees are much better at pollinating alfalfa than honeybees. As they visit alfalfa flowers, they trigger a spring mechanism that causes them to be hit in the face by the plant’s reproductive organ. -Bindweed turret bees are among the 70% of bee species worldwide that nest in the ground. After digging their tunnel-shaped nests in California’s Central Valley, they gather pollen from morning glories, also known as bindweeds. Their shaggy legs get so covered in whitish pollen that they look like they’re wearing tiny pollen pants. Inside their nest, they pack the pollen into balls that will feed their offspring. -More than 600 species of stingless bees across Mexico, Central and South America, and other tropical regions worldwide, make flavorful honey, which is sold as a health product to treat ailments like sore throats. But they don’t have stingers to defend the honey. Instead, guard bees protect the nest entrance, biting intruders and entangling themselves in their hair. Some stingless bees also barricade their nest with a mix of wax and plant resins. Honeys from both stingless bees and honeybees contain hydrogen peroxide, which is antimicrobial. Since stingless bees collect resins, pollen and nectar from a host of plants often in the rainforest scientists are studying their honey for chemicals that might have medicinal properties. -Blue orchard bees have hairs on their abdomen called scopa, which make them good at moving around the pollen of almonds, sweet cherries and other tree fruits. These mason bees collect gobs of mud with their pincerlike mandibles, which they use to build their nests in hollow twigs or straws inside wood blocks offered to the bees by growers. --- Find a transcript on KQED Science: --- More great Deep Look episodes: The Bizarre Biology of 5 Bloodsucking Creatures Butterflies & Caterpillars: Delicate But Mighty Playlist --- Congratulations to the first 5 fans who correctly answered the GIF challenge on our community tab: pamelapilling6996 Hive5Bees austintandoc8187 Just_a_guy909 braddarr6429 --- Thank you to our top Patreon supporters ($10 per month! Julia Ma Darby Sullivan Rachel Fenichel Edgar Betancourt Susan Fuhs Hank Poppe Walter Tschinkel Marco Narajos H. M. Andrew Joan Klivans Stephanie Dole Kevin Sholar J. Schumacher Lily, Vinny, Izzy Altschuler Eric Marsh Jamie Edwards Elia Gourguechon-Buot Kristy Folsom Laurel Przybylski Kevin William Walker Oliver Wakeling Jessica Hiraoka Laurel Przybylski Jeremiah Sullivan Mehdi Salarkia Mark Jobes Carrie Mukaida Cristen Rasmussen Wade Tregaskis Burt Humburg Noreen Herrington Roberta K Wright Brigitte Xia Louis O’Neill Jellyman Titania Juang El Samuels Jessica Duplechin Chris B Emrick Kristine Wee Karen Reynolds Sue Ellen McCann David Deshpande Daisuke Goto Elizabeth Ann Ditz Levi Cai --- Follow Deep Look and KQED Science on social: --- About KQED KQED, an NPR and PBS member station in San Francisco, serves Northern California and beyond with a public-supported alternative to commercial TV, radio and web media. Funding for Deep Look is provided in part by PBS Digital Studios and the members of KQED. #honeybees #pollination #deeplook
Date: 2024-11-16

Comments and reviews: 15


Yay, bees! I've been writing a poem series, A Bee's Journal, for several years. Learning new things about honeybees inspires new entries in the journal. Now I need to think about some new characters, to include some of the other types.
A Bee’s Journal 5
I learn to feed the older hatchlings,
just as we were fed. Older workers run
to the pantry and back with supplies,
savoring the heady flavors of our bee bread
spread with nectar. It’s a wonder
we aren’t all as fat as queens.

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I am seriously so impressed with this beautiful cinematography! Here in the Las Vegas area I have honey bees that come to my hummingbird feeders (trying to sneak a snack) at the beginning of Fall. If anyone else has this visual treat going on in their backyard, inspect the Bee guards because if missing, those guys will push each other right into the bottle, and drown.
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great video! really enjoyed the insights on how hard bees work. though, i can't help but wonder if we give them enough credit for their role in our ecosystem. while some people think of them as just bugs, they actually do so much more than just making honey. it's kinda wild how we often overlook their importance until it’s almost too late, right
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During my undergrad, I was part of a project studying stingless honey bees (Melipona beecheii. One of the beekeepers we were working with in Cienfuegos opened a hive for us and brought out a straw. We drank the honey straight from the hives honey pots. It was such a cool experience!
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Modern honey bees were artificially breed. by human . . They makes predator and defending it is what killed them. Maybe their wild ancestors made very little honey and Had enough flesh eating Vernon they could remove their stingers with ease.
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The drones from the solitary bees do they have a very short lifecycle like regular honey bees I'd imagine they come out of their cocoon maybe find a female and then die shortly after I'd be surprised if they even eat at all once they're adults.
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The fat chonky bees are so cute >. < I wish there was more of them in New York, but most of the bees are the skinny kind. Regardless, when I'm older I definitely will invest in plants so I can see bees more often: ]
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The sign above my garden gate says Bee Here Now, but I only have wild bumblebee, wasps, I haven’t seen regular honey bees in two years, I heard that they were frozen out a couple years ago.
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These bees are why you should let plants stems stand over the winter. A tidy landscape isn't good for the bunches of little pollinators that are so necessary for our planet and food crops
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Worst thing to happen to natural pollinators is the honeybee.
Due to dominating resources they leave very little for natural bees and other important pollinators.

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how do these bees (like the alfalfa bees) get out after they hatch, when they're stacked) like that inside do they wait for their siblings to get out first
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So stingless bees are much older than honeybees, and also collect resin. Are they more represented in amber fossils than other contemporary insects
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I still remember the Deep Look video about the blue orchard bees and their purple candy deposits for the babies. Those are awesome.
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So used to the short videos feeling like they have hours of content, so having a long video legitimately feels like a movie
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What a video! It’s a really interesting story. Continue, you inspire us to learn our world more and more
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