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Details the relationship between bees and flowers. Discusses the importance of pollination. Explains the bee's life stages and anatomical features. Looks at the advanced communication and social skills of bees. Covers the social structure of bees and discusses the difference in job duties between males and females. Describes how bees make honey.
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Explores the world of butterflies and bees. Segment 1, The Lives of Butterflies and Moths. Describes the four stages of the life cycle of the butterfly and moth: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa, and adult butterfly or moth. Shows how their diet and defense systems are necessary for survival. Segment 2, Bees and Plants. Explains pollination and why plants depend on bees for survival. Suggested classroom activities follow each segment.
Learn about the pollen-gathering processes of bees in this segment as a renowned beekeeper teams up with scientists to investigate why this location is near heaven for these insects. During pollination, bees must communicate with each other using various techniques to articulate where the best flowers are located. Part of "The Queen's Garden" series.
Honey bees make honey from nectar to fuel their flight. They also need pollen for protein. So they trap, brush, and pack it into baskets on their legs to make a special food called bee bread. Part of the "Deep Look" series.
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. As Tim delivers the last of the season's honey to his grandfather's customers, the jars get broken. Tim's solution is simple: get more honey from some bees. But Ms. Frizzle sweetens the idea by turning her class into bees and showing them a beehive up close and personal.
One of the fifteen parts of the "Farm to Market" series. Bees gather nectar from flowers and use it to make honey. Demonstrates bee behavior, beekeeping, honey harvest, and packaging. Follows the process from start to finish, including footage of bees inside their hive.
Details the anatomy of the honeybee. Also details the roles of drones, worker bees, the queen, and the mystery of the honeybees' dance. Follows the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) problem to a variety of laboratories, investigating the pathology of bee diseases that are wiping out entire colonies and affecting our food supply. Concludes with the discovery that a viral infection is the most likely cause of CCD but warns that bees are subject to many other stresses that can upset the ecological balance and wipe out our supplies of fruits and vegetables.
How do biologists answer questions and solve problems? Within the context of answering this question, data collection, recording, and analysis are overviewed. Examines two animal behaviors: feeding and communication. Illustrates the different behaviors of lions, alligators, and chimpanzees, and then highlights the "waggle dance" used by bees. Supports the learning of these concepts in tandem with the textbooks also offered by the publisher.
Queen Bees are not actually in charge of anything. Their job is to lay eggs, not to rule the hive. With support from the National Science Foundation, entomologist Gene Robinson and mechanical engineer Harry Dankowicz at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have teamed up with psychologist Whitney Tabor at the University of Connecticut to study how coordination emerges in leaderless complex societies, such as a bee hive. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
Part of "Show Me Science" series. Are animals intelligent? Bees communicate with each other. Monkeys use rocks and sticks to help them get food. Is this instinctual or is it evidence of thought? Some scientists believe that one measure of intelligence is self-awareness, and that an animal's reaction to its own image in a mirror can tell us whether or not it is self-aware. Looks at fish, birds, monkeys, and primates and their reactions to themselves in a mirror. Researchers look for signs of self-recognition as they observe, record, and interpret the reactions of these animals. Includes suggestions for careers in this field of study.
Young Sophia and her friend Victor introduce a series of familiar animals such as bees, ants, ducks, and bears, whose behavior and natural instincts provide lessons about sharing.
The honeybee is vital to the pollination process and to the food supply. Agriculture depends on increasing the number of honeybees on farms, and scientists are studying ways to save and increase the honeybee population.
This episode explores the necessary and yet often times annoying relationship between humans and insects. Some of the insects highlighted include honey bees, driver ants, silk worms, locusts, Anopheles mosquitos, aphids, money spiders, and army ants. Part of the "Nature's Micorworlds: Insect Specials" series.
A teddy bear and toy bunny serve as guides on a trip to a farm. They see and comment on a variety of baby farm animals: piglets, kittens, rabbits, calves, puppies, colts, ducklings, chicks, lambs, fawns, and kids. They also see a beekeeper fumigating a beehive with smoke in order to harvest the honey.
Dengue virus, which causes the infectious disease dengue fever, is estimated to infect more than 400 million people every year. It is usually transmitted through mosquitoes. Scientists working to eradicate the disease have discovered that dengue virus is not able to replicate in mosquitoes infected with a bacteria called Wolbachia. The researchers developed a plan to release infected mosquitoes into the wild so that Wolbachia can spread throughout the mosquito population. Part of the "I Contain Multitudes" series.
Researchers have developed a new way of delivering insulin to patients. It is patterned after the shape of a tortoise shell. New research shows that bees keep their hives cool based on the physics of friction and flow. Other segments include the discovery of carbon dioxide reservoirs in the ocean floor and evidence that tropical reef can flip from coral clusters to fields of seaweed. Part of the "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week" series.
The beewolf is a digger wasp that preys on honey bees. A beewolf mother stings a honey bee and deposits an egg on the bee’s paralyzed body. When the beewolf larva hatches, it can feed on the honey bee. Scientists discovered that the beewolf’s antennae are packed with bacteria called Streptomyces, which produce a variety of antibiotic substances. The beewolf spreads the antibiotic-producing bacteria on the cocoon in which the larva develops. In this way, the larva is protected from being infected by harmful bacteria and fungi. Part of the "I Contain Multitudes" series.
How can honeybees communicate the locations of new food sources? Austrian biologist, Karl Von Frisch, devised an experiment to find out. By pairing the direction of the sun with the flow of gravity, honeybees are able to explain the distant locations of food by dancing. The scientists at Georgia Tech University explain the design of Von Frisch's famous experiment and describe the precise grammar of the honeybees dance language with new computer vision techniques. They hope the research into behaviors of social insects will aid in the design of better systems of autonomous robots.
Michael Goodisman is digging up the dirt on yellow jackets' peculiar lives by studying their nests, behavior, and genetic make-up. With support from the National Science Foundation, he is getting a better understanding of what drives their complex family relationships. Yellow jackets, like honey bees and fire ants, exist in a sophisticated social hierarchy. Unlike other animals that travel in packs or swim together, these social insects will literally sacrifice their own survival in support of their hives, nests, and colonies.
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