Short Film: The Hidden Reason Bees Are Being Wiped Out

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.
Special thanks to HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
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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.
#Bees #Herbivores #FoodSupply #Ecosystem #Pollination #Agriculture #Seeker
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[@Seeker]

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]

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

[@thesilentone4024]

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]

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

[@lore00star]

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]

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

[@marcelo55869]

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

[@BD-lq4id]

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]

Yes

[@mmjahink]

Mind = blown

[@xxvolcomxx56]

I mean, not really.

[@pyroromancer]

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]

@@pyroromancer Sounds like a welcomed change

[@jackojb1]

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.

[@dennis8196]

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]

This sterilization has to end.

[@nil981]

I too am noticing this problem.

[@thatpilatesguy]

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

[@TheSzutekina]

Yes same ❤️ im so happy when I see one

[@PenguinTac0s]

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

[@ronthorn3]

Tell that to the religions

[@Saffron777]

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

[@orowizard1369]

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]

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

[@ray1956]

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

[@stopscammingman]

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

[@abhishekdev258]

Finally the mystery of missing bees is solved.

[@groob33]

BEES are cool.

[@RealFileName_2]

Ues

[@JGerFuentes]

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]

Yes nature is so beautiful 🤩

[@justayoutuber1906]

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

[@dhruvpatel2307]

Thank you Seeker for this gem ✨

[@MaxymusPrime97]

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]

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]

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

[@ontoya1]

@@MaxymusPrime97 ❤️

[@markkaidy8741]

Pesticides and fungicides

[@RPKGameVids]

More bees please!

[@txsifaka]

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

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

[@1.4142]

Microbes are underrated

[@sonaiable]

Amazing work! Congrats to the team!

[@iarrieta]

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

[@inmyownbubble8]

I have always loved 🐝 bees as a kid

[@senshai1267]

They are such a vital creature.

[@Noni-yf7cd]

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

[@aabhisheks]

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]

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

[@donnysandley4649]

no shortage of bees where I'm from 👍

[@RyanCoomer]

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.

[@errorASMR]

lol i want to see this

[@BrandonSampson-ti1ig]

Thats great

[@markomus1]

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

[@spacedog6622]

Thanks for the info very helpful

[@CosmicShieldMaiden]

I love bees. Hate wasps tho!

[@knightofcydonia1192]

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

[@stopscammingman]

Both worrying and amazing

[@dylancombs3131]

What a weird fish

[@atm0t5]

thanks for the great work

[@bigsarge2085]

Intriguing.

[@groob33]

Well I'll bee...

[@p0ssesst]

Another great day of saving the beeeeees.

[@udhayakumar.v005]

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]

What is a month in a lifetime heh?

[@janalexandert]

Save the solitary bees!

[@TheYafaShow]

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.

[@iancu_de_hunedoara]

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

[@littleflower7769]

Thank you Monsanto

[@kwameayiku5248]

Paul Stamets figured this out years ago

[@lvr5266]

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

[@drstone3418]

Matpat did a video about this

[@joshy0369]

Nice

[@thatsawesome2060]

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

[@Moonyooka]

this is crazy

[@chrismaduro]

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

[@grayrecluse7496]

What about all the planes , spraying.

[@RoboLaboratory]

Hello

[@usulmuaddib5503]

Feels like the “Genophage” from Mass Effect.

[@bryanreeve7353]

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

[@youxkio]

Science!

[@stevenhill3136]

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

[@drstone3418]

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

[@paulomorbioarmwrestling986]

Armwrestling showwww Brasil 🇧🇷

[@mamoru1836]

🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛

[@drstone3418]

Why not farm at sea . Those platforms for oil

[@drstone3418]

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

[@Josh-xo7ik]

Amber Heards dog must be running around.

[@TheSzutekina]

😂😂😂

[@sammybarrera]

These are now 🐠

[@aperson2730]

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

[@brandonhalliii1]

Bee Cheeto smell

[@darrincohick2235]

Bees are God's little gardeners

[@laniianl7125]

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

[@meepotello626]

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

[@pudetouch]

Its your fault!

[@01DOGG01]

funjye funjus

[@OreWaSulekDesu]

Take that vegans! :D

[@Humzah360]

What quran says about bees 🐝???

[@Humzah360]

Only female honey bees 🐝 produce honey...

[@saulgoodman2018]

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

[@elcomodo1]

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

[@groob33]

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

[@cindywade1414]

Five GEEEE frequency

[@elcomodo1]

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

[@elcomodo1]

But i mean heyy more money for the elites

[@typicalrockhound9887]

😑👌

[@thomasherzog86]

this documentary literally is about how humans causes this

[@knightofcydonia1192]

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

[@Tclay13]

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