Short Film: The Hidden Reason Bees Are Being Wiped Out

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  • čas přidán 2. 06. 2022
  • What if bees are not the herbivores we thought they were? Scientists have unveiled the secret microbial world that is vital to bees’ population, and our food supply.
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    While they may not be our favorite part of eating outside, bees are really important to our ecosystem. They’re prolific natural pollinators and are a huge part of our modern agriculture. A lot of the food we eat relies on pollination from bees! Unfortunately though, they’re also in serious danger. 4,000 species across the U.S are in decline. And there isn’t one specific reason as to why this is happening.
    The scientists in our next film, SymBeeOsis, might have discovered one cause. And it could change everything we know about bees and their ecosystem, starting with a microscopic world that we never knew existed, until now.
    This is SymBeeOsis, from Day’s Edge Productions.
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Komentáře • 130

  • @Seeker
    @Seeker  Před 2 lety +33

    Thank you for watching our re-upload of Sym.Bee.O.Sis! This version acknowledges the many contributions that went into making this film possible, including members from the USDA and the grant that brought it to life. We certainly didn't know bees could be omnivores, did you? Let us in the comments below and keeping coming back to Seeker for all your latest bee news.

    • @KioMilenium
      @KioMilenium Před 2 lety

      "We certainly didn't know bees could be omnivorous" SPOILERS alert! 😅

    • @thesilentone4024
      @thesilentone4024 Před 2 lety +1

      The natives are endangered not the farmed bees.
      Ps the mote fungicides farms use the worse bees health is.
      Yes bees need fungus and other things in there or there a 98% chance there going to be week and very small.
      Ok yes I texted this before watching the video sorry.
      But still farmers are finding ways around anything to get poison on there land.
      Ya farms need to stop poisoning the land like now.

    • @yeb0i
      @yeb0i Před rokem

      What happened to this channel? 5mil subs and 25k views??

  • @lore00star
    @lore00star Před 2 lety +53

    Bees are actually my favorite part while i eat outside! I always leave something sweet for them.. they never attack if you don't attack first, wasps are not my favorite part lol XD

  • @BearHeadedWerewolf
    @BearHeadedWerewolf Před 2 lety +34

    This changes my research on bees massively. I definetly need to look further into this.

  • @BD-lq4id
    @BD-lq4id Před 2 lety +34

    You ever notice how back in the day on a road trip you'd get tons of bug splats on the windshield, and nowadays there's none? Insects are disappearing...

    • @abhishekdev258
      @abhishekdev258 Před rokem +1

      Yes

    • @mmjahink
      @mmjahink Před rokem +2

      Mind = blown

    • @xxvolcomxx56
      @xxvolcomxx56 Před rokem +3

      I mean, not really.

    • @pyroromancer
      @pyroromancer Před rokem +2

      ee used to get citywide moth and termite swarms at night in central California in the early 90's and earlier once a year.
      Then big agriculture companies bought out all the farmland and started spraying massive amounts of insecticides.
      Moth swarms are extinct and i only witness a termite swarm once every few years and its only a couple hundred yards along steet lamp rows.

    • @xxvolcomxx56
      @xxvolcomxx56 Před rokem

      @@pyroromancer Sounds like a welcomed change

  • @marcelo55869
    @marcelo55869 Před 2 lety +15

    Society: "Why are bees dying?"
    Corporations producing glyphosate poison : *sweating profusely *

  • @dennis8196
    @dennis8196 Před 2 lety +37

    I've just come back from a long walk in a protected common area with large meadows and maintained trees. Not 1 single caterpillar, not one moth or butterfly. Not even tell tail evidence of caterpillars anywhere.
    Looking after the bees is extremely important, but so is the rest of the eco system and butter fly's here used to be counted in the hundreds per hour, now it's days between sightings.

    • @Krafterr4
      @Krafterr4 Před 2 lety +5

      This sterilization has to end.

    • @nil981
      @nil981 Před rokem +3

      I too am noticing this problem.

  • @jackojb1
    @jackojb1 Před 2 lety +15

    My first thought is that the larvae need those microbes to populate their digestive system to be able to digest their future meals. Since the microbes come from the plants in the surroundings they are exactly what the bees need.

  • @PenguinTac0s
    @PenguinTac0s Před 2 lety +13

    We need to stop viewing the planet as human centric and shift to a caretaker role

    • @ronthorn3
      @ronthorn3 Před rokem +1

      Tell that to the religions

  • @orowizard1369
    @orowizard1369 Před 2 lety +8

    Bees. I like bees. I have a few acres of bad soil and am improving it with compost, letting half come back with native plants or at least whatever it had before I bought it and I am planting many various fruit trees, maple, oak, pecan, weeping willow, gingko biloba, bois d'arc, some inknown to me (taking small ones that have started underneath the large ones and transplanting them farther away so they will grow big), fruit bushes, flowers, comfrey, purslane, dandelions, and gardening. Edit: oops, I use no pesticides, fungicides, poisons, nada. Just have ducks, chickens, cattle, dogs, cats for fertilizer and varmint control.

  • @vammekopinion6044
    @vammekopinion6044 Před 2 lety +13

    It appears everything on our planet is omnivorous in some way. Life eats life in some form.

  • @thatpilatesguy
    @thatpilatesguy Před 2 lety +12

    I love 🐝. There are so many species and all of them are wonderful.

    • @TheSzutekina
      @TheSzutekina Před 2 lety +1

      Yes same ❤️ im so happy when I see one

  • @abhishekdev258
    @abhishekdev258 Před rokem +3

    Finally the mystery of missing bees is solved.

  • @Saffron777
    @Saffron777 Před 2 lety +8

    I love all the slow mo's of the bees! Bees are my favorite insect then spiders 😇😊

  • @ray1956
    @ray1956 Před 2 lety +5

    All living Organisms are connected 💐🐝🐝👨🏿‍⚕️👨🏿‍⚕️🧑🏿‍💻👀

  • @JGerFuentes
    @JGerFuentes Před 2 lety +13

    In some way it's the same as with human babies: the newborn needs his/her mother's milk as soon as possible in order to develop a complete and healthy inmmune system, as well as it is equally important to be born in a natural way (I mean, no c-section) due to the same reason.
    Thank you very much for the documentary, it's very well done. Greetings from Argentina!

    • @TheSzutekina
      @TheSzutekina Před 2 lety +3

      Yes nature is so beautiful 🤩

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 Před rokem

      Agree with the fist part. But disagree with the C-section. Do you have evidence to back up your dubious claim?

  • @MaxymusPrime97
    @MaxymusPrime97 Před 2 lety +13

    thank you for this minidocumentary. I really enjoyed it. Now the question is what can a everyday person do to help our bees 🐝. should we have our own little collonies in our backyards with more gardens, etc.

    • @ontoya1
      @ontoya1 Před 2 lety +5

      Check out beekeeping in a bottle there's a dude that he keeps on a bottle and it looks like the most efficient thing ever and the bees look like they love it. By far the easiest way to to be keep even indoors it seems. I'm definitely doing that in my lifetime

    • @MaxymusPrime97
      @MaxymusPrime97 Před 2 lety +4

      @@ontoya1 am definitely going to take a look !! Thank you for the suggestion ☺️

    • @ontoya1
      @ontoya1 Před 2 lety +3

      @@MaxymusPrime97 ❤️

  • @groob33
    @groob33 Před 2 lety +8

    BEES are cool.

  • @dhruvpatel2307
    @dhruvpatel2307 Před 2 lety +4

    Thank you Seeker for this gem ✨

  •  Před 2 lety +4

    oh, allready seen this one. Bees are going under, lets hope they wont be gone too soon..

  • @txsifaka
    @txsifaka Před 2 lety +4

    i love bees, i hope we can preserve them more :(

  • @stopscammingman
    @stopscammingman Před rokem +6

    Ecology is a lesson in humility; there's so much nuance we have to contend with.

  • @RPKGameVids
    @RPKGameVids Před 2 lety +5

    More bees please!

  • @aabhisheks
    @aabhisheks Před 2 lety +4

    Our ancestors have had the solution to this problem long back … use of natural fungicides made of neem leaves extract helps the plants, flowers and all of flora in one way or the other

    • @BrandonSampson-ti1ig
      @BrandonSampson-ti1ig Před měsícem

      They actually cared about the well being of the bees tho. Our gov. Prob. Made pesticides specifically to harm them

  • @markkaidy8741
    @markkaidy8741 Před 2 lety +5

    Pesticides and fungicides

  • @donnysandley4649
    @donnysandley4649 Před 2 lety +4

    no shortage of bees where I'm from 👍

  • @RyanCoomer
    @RyanCoomer Před 2 lety +3

    I have a pet possum I take to my job as head chef at a resturant in downtown Chicago. He usually sits on my shoulders while I cook the food for lunch and dinner rush. I will usually feed him scraps or to have a nibble off of someone's order before they receive it. It's so cool having him with me, he's my best friend. Luckily no one can see because I keep the kitchen locked and closed and serve the food through a tiny window with a curtain.

  • @iarrieta
    @iarrieta Před 2 lety +2

    Very very nice video! Thanks for all new data that I did not know

  • @inmyownbubble8
    @inmyownbubble8 Před 2 lety +2

    I have always loved 🐝 bees as a kid

  • @sonaiable
    @sonaiable Před rokem +2

    Amazing work!
    Congrats to the team!

  • @Noni-yf7cd
    @Noni-yf7cd Před rokem +2

    Amazing video, very very cool!! This video was made very smooth, and was very easy to follow!! great work

  • @senshai1267
    @senshai1267 Před 2 lety +3

    They are such a vital creature.

  • @spacedog6622
    @spacedog6622 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for the info very helpful

  • @markomus1
    @markomus1 Před 2 lety +1

    10:46 - "So, what was missing from their diet?" 10:49 (me) - "Meat." The rest is history. LOL

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 Před rokem +2

    Microbes are underrated

  • @atm0t5
    @atm0t5 Před 2 lety +1

    thanks for the great work

  • @CosmicShieldMaiden
    @CosmicShieldMaiden Před 2 lety +3

    I love bees. Hate wasps tho!

    • @knightofcydonia1192
      @knightofcydonia1192 Před rokem

      Wasps are actually just as docile and important as bees! Hornets are the aggressive ones!

  • @stopscammingman
    @stopscammingman Před rokem +2

    Both worrying and amazing

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085 Před 2 lety +1

    Intriguing.

  • @groob33
    @groob33 Před 2 lety +3

    Well I'll bee...

  • @udhayakumar.v005
    @udhayakumar.v005 Před rokem +2

    Nowadays there is no video content from your channel🙁 it feels like the vacuum has occupied. Almost a month over, was the last post from your channel

    • @lvr5266
      @lvr5266 Před rokem

      What is a month in a lifetime heh?

  • @dylancombs3131
    @dylancombs3131 Před 2 lety +1

    What a weird fish

  • @TheYafaShow
    @TheYafaShow Před 2 lety

    The only thing that matters in the universe is the orbital velocity of planets, exoplanets, and moons orbiting planets. the orbital velocity affects the density of planets which then affect the ecosystem of the planet, and or exoplanet. Density, in humans, and in planets is the most important element in the universe and everything other than density is just a component of the how dense something is, or dense it can become.

  • @p0ssesst
    @p0ssesst Před 8 měsíci

    Another great day of saving the beeeeees.

  • @janalexandert
    @janalexandert Před 2 lety +1

    Save the solitary bees!

  • @kwameayiku5248
    @kwameayiku5248 Před 2 lety +2

    Paul Stamets figured this out years ago

    • @lvr5266
      @lvr5266 Před rokem +3

      Thnx. I just went down the rabbit hole just looking up his name lol

  • @iancu_de_hunedoara
    @iancu_de_hunedoara Před rokem

    I'm from China. And we love eating bees, they are really delicious.

  • @drstone3418
    @drstone3418 Před 2 lety +1

    Matpat did a video about this

  • @RoboLaboratory
    @RoboLaboratory Před 2 lety +1

    Hello

  • @usulmuaddib5503
    @usulmuaddib5503 Před 2 lety

    Feels like the “Genophage” from Mass Effect.

  • @littleflower7769
    @littleflower7769 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you Monsanto

  • @thatsawesome2060
    @thatsawesome2060 Před rokem

    Monsanto, and Bayer's,: the cause is hard to pin down 🤷

  • @drstone3418
    @drstone3418 Před 2 lety +1

    What if you real have a bee have more honey then they could handle would they stop foraging

  • @Moonyooka
    @Moonyooka Před 2 lety

    this is crazy

  • @bryanreeve7353
    @bryanreeve7353 Před rokem

    we need to make fungicide that doesn’t harm fungi I guess

  • @grayrecluse7496
    @grayrecluse7496 Před 4 měsíci

    What about all the planes , spraying.

  • @chrismaduro
    @chrismaduro Před rokem

    Do we really need chemicals? Dr. Elaine Ingham would disagree.

  • @youxkio
    @youxkio Před 2 lety

    Science!

  • @stevenhill3136
    @stevenhill3136 Před 2 lety +7

    Your excellent work reveals fungicides are to blame...not global warming

  • @paulomorbioarmwrestling986

    Armwrestling showwww Brasil 🇧🇷

  • @joshy0369
    @joshy0369 Před 2 lety

    Nice

  • @drstone3418
    @drstone3418 Před 2 lety

    Why not farm at sea .
    Those platforms for oil

  • @drstone3418
    @drstone3418 Před 2 lety

    Male larvae need manual stimulation of imaginal disc. Unless made from sperm then having half the chromosomes destroyed like in Parasitic wasp

  • @aperson2730
    @aperson2730 Před rokem

    This channel, unfortunately, doesn't upload videos as frequently as it once did ☹️

  • @Josh-xo7ik
    @Josh-xo7ik Před 2 lety +6

    Amber Heards dog must be running around.

  • @laniianl7125
    @laniianl7125 Před 2 lety +1

    Nevertheless why are the pollen-eating microbes negatively impacted by fungicide? As far as I know fungicide made to target eukaryotic cells...

    • @meepotello626
      @meepotello626 Před rokem +1

      Who knows there must be side effects of the chemical that wasn't fully tested . We need to collect more data and do more research . Targeting specific microbe doesn't mean the others won't be harmed

  • @darrincohick2235
    @darrincohick2235 Před 4 měsíci

    Bees are God's little gardeners

  • @sammybarrera
    @sammybarrera Před 2 lety

    These are now 🐠

  • @mamoru1836
    @mamoru1836 Před rokem +1

    🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛

  • @brandonhalliii1
    @brandonhalliii1 Před rokem

    Bee Cheeto smell

  • @01DOGG01
    @01DOGG01 Před 2 lety

    funjye
    funjus

  • @pudetouch
    @pudetouch Před 2 lety

    Its your fault!

  • @OreWaSulekDesu
    @OreWaSulekDesu Před 2 lety +1

    Take that vegans! :D

  • @saulgoodman2018
    @saulgoodman2018 Před rokem

    So videos for a month?
    Is this channel dead or dying?

  • @Humzah360
    @Humzah360 Před měsícem +1

    What quran says about bees 🐝???

    • @Humzah360
      @Humzah360 Před měsícem

      Only female honey bees 🐝 produce honey...

  • @elcomodo1
    @elcomodo1 Před 2 lety +4

    Paul stamets already came up with this theory, you normies are just catching up……

    • @groob33
      @groob33 Před 2 lety +3

      It'll be a long time before they catch up with Paul...

  • @elcomodo1
    @elcomodo1 Před 2 lety +3

    Yes planetary changes happen, to think that humans can stop/cause this is sooo egotistical.

    • @elcomodo1
      @elcomodo1 Před 2 lety +1

      But i mean heyy more money for the elites

    • @typicalrockhound9887
      @typicalrockhound9887 Před 2 lety +1

      😑👌

    • @thomasherzog86
      @thomasherzog86 Před 2 lety +4

      this documentary literally is about how humans causes this

    • @knightofcydonia1192
      @knightofcydonia1192 Před rokem

      You are a total idiot if you think artificial fungicides we spray plants with, which then hurt bee larvae, are "PLANETARY CHANGES"

  • @Tclay13
    @Tclay13 Před 2 lety

    Couldn’t watch the background music is too loud and beyond irritating

  • @cindywade1414
    @cindywade1414 Před 2 lety +2

    Five GEEEE frequency