The Amazing and Delicate World of Bees

Yes, there is a chance they might sting you, but bees are incredibly vital to our ecosystem as we know it. Join Hank for a compilation of our favorite bee episodes—we know this one is a real stinger! We mean, zinger!

Hosted by: Hank Green

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[bblesener]

"Most US Alfala for example is now pollinated by a solitary leafcutter bee" poor fella must be tired

[andreyrumming]

"To... stab plants??? Is that what that says?"

That is genuine confusion right there XD

[jamesdietz]

After you've made a third bee compilation, merge those three into a (combined) fourth and call it a "documentary".

[emmanuelweinman]

Wait... are you saying bees literally vibe with the flowers to get the pollen? Damn nature is crazy 🙏🏼

[radtech]

“Poricidal anthers” is the name of my new rock n’roll album.

[mffmoniz]

We have a big colony of mason bees in our garden by simply providing shelter for them and a variety of flowers at different times. They are fantastic to just sit and watch. And they leave us alone because we leave them alone. They become active very early, which is great for some of our crops.

[jonhu]

Liked just for recognizing how cute bees are

[whyh]

I have never thought of bees as cute but now that it's mentioned, I really can't think of any insect that is cuter.

[robinhahnsopran]

I the number of times I said out loud looking at the bees in this video, I swear 😂

[outlawscar]

1:59 Quick correction, you mean the pitch of middle C. Pitch is the frequency, tone is the wave shape. Then in the following clip you show, the bee buzzes at F# on the flower.

[Deathman]

Bees are indeed the cutest insects in the whole world. I support that statement.

[markchip]

Some foods would become a lot more expensive if honeybees disappeared!

I thinking, yeah - like honey!!

[veledwin]

I was going to say "no way, mantids are the cutest!" but I was able to put my bias aside. Objectively speaking, bees really are the cutest insect.

[ProjectDarkWolf]

It won't be a doomsday scenario but coffee will get more expensive? That's exactly the definition of a doomsday scenario for half of us!

[kerinholmstrom]

So many people I know think of bees, behave like wasps. Bees like flowers not people....wasps are carnivores, & not only sting they bite too! Learn the dif people!

[WildFyreful]

"Bees buzz to Middle C to get closed anthers to explode and dump pollen on them."

Okay, honest question: how the heck did bees figure out how that works? That is weirdly specific.

[birdsbirding]

20 mins on bees... This is what I was looking for.. awesome...

[jasonwebb]

I have around 5 Bumblebees that love being around my front door. So much so that my 4yr old daughter is terrified to walk outside. I literally have to carry her to the car to leave. I have tried so many times to explain that they will not hurt her or me as long as they are left alone. One thing that I have noticed. They are very curious. If I walk outside and stand by the door. One bee will always come and fly up to me about 2 feet away and some days even closer. They have never tried to land on me or act aggressively towards me or my family. I leave them alone and they leave us alone type deal. Now they have their own problems. If 1 bee is what I call patrolling, if another bee flies up, they fly off as if they are fighting. Lol. I don't know if they are each territorial or what, but I really would like to know. My wife always wants me to kill them but I tell her no. I haven't ever seen any kinda nest near by so I am kinda lost in why they do this. Anyone knows these things, please let me know. Thank you and have a great day.

[Omnifarious]

17:30 - My hypothesis is that this is a co-evolution between bees and plants in which it was originally a survival strategy by plants that bees learned to exploit and then plants learned to do more quickly and readily.

[GapWim]

4:44
So it’s not THAT bad … a B-pocalypse doesn’t have as much budget available as an A-pocalypse.