Colony Collapse: The Mystery of the Missing Bees | Retro Report | The New York Times

The mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder has brought honeybees into the public eye. But the story of their plight - and its impact - is more complicated.
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  • @sheagoff6009
    @sheagoff600910 ай бұрын

    My cousin and his wife had a beehive. They took classes on how to take care of bees and how to harvest the honey and all that. They managed to get two harvests of honey. But one time in the middle of winter my cousin and his wife were on vacation, my aunt went to check on the bees and there were hundreds if not thousands of dead bees on the ground outside the hive. It was really devastating to them, they loved those bees like they were their children. I ended painting a picture of bees for them in honor of their precious bees. It’s hanging in their living room now.

  • @yungsolopath2603

    @yungsolopath2603

    10 ай бұрын

    Would your cousin know the cause of his bee loss over the winter?

  • @sheagoff6009

    @sheagoff6009

    10 ай бұрын

    @@yungsolopath2603 he doesn’t know what happened that I know of.

  • @yungsolopath2603

    @yungsolopath2603

    10 ай бұрын

    I still wonder about ccd, like what could truly be the cause of a colony population to drop so suddenly.

  • @yungsolopath2603

    @yungsolopath2603

    10 ай бұрын

    Hope your cousin recovered or started a new hive successfully

  • @xxcheeriosxx5828
    @xxcheeriosxx58286 жыл бұрын

    I'm actually doing a research paper on this; it's pretty interesting so far.

  • @18Bees

    @18Bees

    5 жыл бұрын

    did you publish your research?

  • @truthsupreme

    @truthsupreme

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@18Bees Haven't you heard? The African bee got to him

  • @cclaire0908

    @cclaire0908

    3 жыл бұрын

    haha same

  • @brunojacome4526

    @brunojacome4526

    Жыл бұрын

    How did that go?

  • @amandas3626
    @amandas36264 жыл бұрын

    Would love to see these closed captioned so I can use them in the classroom.

  • @claudettes9697
    @claudettes96976 жыл бұрын

    Bee keepers are awesome!

  • @framcesmoore

    @framcesmoore

    4 жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @paigelynn180
    @paigelynn1806 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen a video that was so simutaniously funny and terrifying

  • @pressedearth9492
    @pressedearth94925 жыл бұрын

    It's not just the honey bees. I have noticed a decrease in all the pollinators here in Georgia.

  • @18Bees

    @18Bees

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thats really where my interest is going. Honey bee hive collapse is obvious but its not so obvious with other pollinating bees. However, convincing people to take on hives is an excellent way to talk about pollinating bees, pesticides and building habitat.

  • @mattonthemountain
    @mattonthemountain9 жыл бұрын

    Hobby Bee keeping, now there is an idea I wouldn't mind following up on.

  • @jonslg240

    @jonslg240

    5 жыл бұрын

    How'd it go? =p

  • @Colonelcheeser

    @Colonelcheeser

    11 ай бұрын

    How’d it go?

  • @macparoo
    @macparoo7 жыл бұрын

    9 Asian giant hornets disliked this video

  • @braxtonhalpin5643

    @braxtonhalpin5643

    4 жыл бұрын

    now its 33

  • @matthewsweiss6426

    @matthewsweiss6426

    3 жыл бұрын

    @don't care not true if you watch the vid, it says honeybees only count for 30% of the food production. also they said they are not afraid of the bees going extinct

  • @wadummbadimm6383

    @wadummbadimm6383

    3 жыл бұрын

    39 so far

  • @macparoo

    @macparoo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wadummbadimm6383Dame their multiplying!

  • @beebob1279
    @beebob12795 жыл бұрын

    I've kept bees for 20 years. The past two years I've lost all my colonies only to buy new packages. Nothing worse than standing next to the hives when they should be in cluster at 28 degrees F only to watch them fly off one by one until the hive was basically empty. I decided to throw out all my old comb and start with new frames and foundation (bees draw comb on this). My theory is that even if varroa mites are limited in a hive their viruses remain in their comb. I kept the mite levels to 1 or 2 mites per hundred and still found bees with parasitic mite syndrome and deformed wing virus. I could irradiate the comb but decided to start over.

  • @18Bees

    @18Bees

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thats an interesting point for me to explore.

  • @WarpPal

    @WarpPal

    4 жыл бұрын

    Have you tested your bees for aluminum nano dust or neonicotinoid poisoning?

  • @brunojacome4526

    @brunojacome4526

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WarpPal what does the aluminum dust do to the bees?... i was reading a little about the neonicotinoids, but i have no idea about the aluminum.

  • @menosproblemos6993
    @menosproblemos69935 жыл бұрын

    Nice video. I learned some. I'd like the bee's symptoms in a video, what the scientists found. "Strange symptoms" and 'Declining in those symptoms' is giving me the info that people are confused, though I clicked on the video for the bees. The video did inform about both the parasites and the pesticides, and that is a thumbs up in my book. d c" )

  • @stephenmartinez1
    @stephenmartinez12 жыл бұрын

    "the rapture, god calling all the bees up to heaven" - no, I don't think he needs them up there. so funny

  • @alexk4233
    @alexk42333 жыл бұрын

    Among other reasons, there is the main one - the death of bees from viral epidemics. This is well shown in the new film "So Said the Swarm"

  • @wullybully2863
    @wullybully28636 жыл бұрын

    YES!

  • @ShaudaySmith
    @ShaudaySmith6 жыл бұрын

    This seemed like just a cursory glance at the problems bees and beekeepers are facing. My interest was definitely peaked. What sort of tests are they doing on the Queens and the hives to make them more robust? What are the other uses for those robo-bees? How big a part to do the mites play in colony die off? Where do the keepers buy bees to replenish their numbers? Are there changes in commercial beekeeping that occur that would help mitigate CCD? Like resting the colony between farms, partnerships with farms and pesticide manufacturing... I have so many questions!!!

  • @meapface2.085
    @meapface2.0852 жыл бұрын

    Loving that shirt

  • @BvousBrainSystems
    @BvousBrainSystems6 жыл бұрын

    Take a spoonful of honey every time they say "bee".

  • @jm91235
    @jm912355 жыл бұрын

    Does somebody know the name of the song starting at 0:52?

  • @zzcolby27
    @zzcolby277 жыл бұрын

    reminds me of the bee movie

  • @slaveNo-4028
    @slaveNo-40286 жыл бұрын

    "this might bee..."

  • @wilberthidalgo_3176
    @wilberthidalgo_31764 жыл бұрын

    Wow the USDA guy wasn’t sure about anything

  • @tombombadil811
    @tombombadil8113 жыл бұрын

    Wow the New York Times published something helpful. Well done

  • @concentratecorner1744
    @concentratecorner17446 жыл бұрын

    Word around the street is that Liam Neeson thinks the bee's are involved in his daughters kidnapping...so he is finding all the hives he can and killing them

  • @18Bees

    @18Bees

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol i shouldn't laugh but good one!

  • @wesleymitchell311
    @wesleymitchell3115 жыл бұрын

    It is because the society relies on the parent groups or ancestory group to comply worth With all the ancestory group deceased Then that entire system collapses

  • @jonslg240

    @jonslg240

    5 жыл бұрын

    People tell you you're crazy VERY often, amirite?

  • @jonslg240

    @jonslg240

    5 жыл бұрын

    You don't even know what words you're supposed to be using

  • @KalvinMauveMusic
    @KalvinMauveMusic3 ай бұрын

    The Elephants in the room 3G 4G 5G "Although first offered in 2001, global adoption of 3G only started to really gain traction sometime in 2007"Coincidence? .

  • @stephen7774
    @stephen7774 Жыл бұрын

    If the hive keepers take too much honey it causes the bees to starve to death. Now. How many other reasons do you need? lol.

  • @halalchickenburger
    @halalchickenburger3 жыл бұрын

    7:16 This man is literally as red as a tomato xd.

  • @soniarusso8604

    @soniarusso8604

    Жыл бұрын

    RACIST!

  • @nickyoung298
    @nickyoung2989 жыл бұрын

    Beeeeeeeez nuts

  • @DiracComb.7585

    @DiracComb.7585

    5 жыл бұрын

    Get the heck out

  • @AntonioBrandao
    @AntonioBrandao9 жыл бұрын

    Save the Bees, boycott Monsanto at once!

  • @Thumbsupurbum

    @Thumbsupurbum

    6 жыл бұрын

    That doesn't make sense. You can't really boycott Monsanto. Regular shoppers aren't their customers, farmers are. The farmers would have to boycott them. You refusing to buy produce at the store would only hurt the farmers that grew them, not Monsanto.

  • @18Bees

    @18Bees

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Thumbsupurbum its a tricky business once you start digging deep into it.

  • @ChainsGoldMask
    @ChainsGoldMask6 жыл бұрын

    Not to suggest copyright infringement, but THESE should be called 20/20

  • @joecrockrell04
    @joecrockrell045 жыл бұрын

    The media really loses itself at times

  • @TheMikaeljansson
    @TheMikaeljansson6 жыл бұрын

    Monsatan ......:/

  • @DK-qe6uo
    @DK-qe6uo5 жыл бұрын

    Macaulay Culkin got his revenge

  • @faithluv696
    @faithluv6969 жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @nowoahs_8382
    @nowoahs_83825 жыл бұрын

    A legal law suit is coming for us all by the bees

  • @InlogixEnterprises
    @InlogixEnterprises Жыл бұрын

    It all due to ELECTROSMOG. Read "The Invisible Rainbow" by Arthur Firstenberg.

  • @whybeesmatter9969
    @whybeesmatter99695 жыл бұрын

    In one of the news clips, a voiceover is heard saying that "bees produce 30% of our food". Today, most sources say that it is actually 70% - I wonder if these factual misconceptions have lead to the seeming lack of interest in the safeguarding of our bees.

  • @WulfNSpice
    @WulfNSpice2 жыл бұрын

    2 things not mentioned in video that has a high chance of being the cause of all the missing and dead bees 1. 4G/5G / electromagnetic fields disturbing the bees and confusing them making them less productful and dying off somewhere 2. Chemtrails being sprayed in the air and lands on top of bees and plants that feed off of or air they intake.

  • @robreiken
    @robreiken5 жыл бұрын

    Not once was Geo Engineering mentioned in this vid, the elephant in the sky dropping it's toxic load called Aluminum/Barium , Strontium 90 etc..

  • @cpg1388
    @cpg13886 жыл бұрын

    You’re dealing with Monsanto crops that have insecticides built into the plants.

  • @georgplaz

    @georgplaz

    6 жыл бұрын

    did you even watch the video?

  • @dennishagans6339
    @dennishagans6339 Жыл бұрын

    1: Killer Bees NARRATOR: In addition to their attacks on humans, these giant swarms of killer bees have almost completely wiped out the honeybee 5:13 in the southwest United States. Experts estimate that there are 5 million killer bee hives 5:19 in Arizona alone, each giant hive containing up to 80,000 bees. 2: CCD Colony colapse Disorder, caused by Bayer's Goucho and Poncho systemic insecticides, millions of bees gone, a fifth generation beekeeping company lost all of their bees and went out of business. 3: imported bees from Austrailia have mites and diseases not native here, for 4 years we imported Austrailian bees to make up our losses. 4: The Giant Asian Hornet is here in Washington state and decimated one hive of 60,000 bees, "Nest Zero" These have all come pretty close together within a single generation. Any one of these is bad enough on its own, but combined together we are looking at the total loss of all of our bees, I hope you like gruel made from the cereal grains because that is what you will be eating a lot of if you cannot afford the hight prices of imported fruits and veggies. I see the hand of God in this because as a nation that once was a Christian nation, many have been thumbing their nose at God, and now its time to pay the piper. and its not just the bees, their is covid 19 and its later strains, there is Yellowstone super volcano showing lots of activity, there have been the higher numbers of tornados and huricanes of increasing strengths in the last 100 years in no other time of our history have all these things come together as harbingers of doom. the scoffers will scoff and have a laughing good time, until America is utterly destroyed.

  • @johnguf3399
    @johnguf33995 жыл бұрын

    silly people. the goverment found out bees can detect nuclear weapons so they figured out how to get them to protect the shipping docks

  • @ulrichsparadise
    @ulrichsparadise9 жыл бұрын

    Even EBOLA oh wait that 2014 this was made on 2013 then CANER

  • @justanotherarrogantinterne1955
    @justanotherarrogantinterne19557 жыл бұрын

    Someone.... Or something..... is killing them..... And whatever it is, you should not look behind you.

  • @jackyoasay5695

    @jackyoasay5695

    7 жыл бұрын

    ALIENS

  • @jackyoasay5695

    @jackyoasay5695

    7 жыл бұрын

    Have a story for you.

  • @jackyoasay5695

    @jackyoasay5695

    7 жыл бұрын

    This might be the end of the world if this keeps going and we are down to 00000000000000000 bees. R.I.P US. R.I.P BEES. R.I.P EVERYONEEEEEEE. I am also talking about this disorder in school, we had a Alien conspiracy we were talking about which was for this and it got me very chilled and I can't sleep. My classmate said this in the presentation, "I think aliens are real and they are causing this because they come down in thier UFO and get the bees and they are in trees and the UFO comes down near a tree and gets them. Also, I think they are getting them because they are going to use them for a experiment but, I don't know what............" Then he gave a smirk and puts up a triangle sign. That is just chilling on what he said and did on that presentation. I might make a video about it on my KZread.

  • @dirtypure2023
    @dirtypure20239 жыл бұрын

    There is a major correlation between the timeline of the appearance of colony collapse disorder (CCD) and the timeline of the boom in wireless technology. CCD started to become a serious issue around the same time that cell phone companies started their mad rush to build as many cell phone towers as possible (in order to keep up with the demand generated by the sudden boom in smartphone popularity). Also around this time, WiFi was increasing in popularity. Bees are one of the many creatures that use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation and orientation within their environment. The problem is that the artificial electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) emitted by cell phone towers and other wireless tech ends up interfering with a bee's ability to find sources of food and in finding their way back to their hive. When the pollen collectors become unable to find food or navigate back to the colony with food, then the hive fails and ends up being abandoned as the bees leave en masse (as was seen in this video). There is actually a really good documentary that was produced before bee decline even became a mainstream issue, which goes in depth into the causes and research on the definite correlation between CCD and artificial EMF (for the life of me I haven't been able to find it, but if anyone knows the doc I'm talking about please direct me to it). We're seeing no mainstream coverage of this aspect of colony collapse disorder. Instead all we see is confusion and debate over whether pesticides are a relevant factor. I'll just say that pesticides have been in use for a really long time, but CCD didn't become an issue until wireless technology boomed on a global scale.

  • @Matdogg2k

    @Matdogg2k

    8 жыл бұрын

    With the tech boom in the SF Bay there would be probably no need around here. That's very interesting in your claims. EMF can also cause cancer supposedly

  • @Matdogg2k

    @Matdogg2k

    8 жыл бұрын

    I meant "bees" not "need"

  • @jasonclark8797

    @jasonclark8797

    7 жыл бұрын

    Michael K I visited Israel they say that cell phone towers and other towers cause the to not be able to find the hive.

  • @jeremyfichtner707

    @jeremyfichtner707

    6 жыл бұрын

    You are on the right path just not looking in the right direction! Remember it is all by design, now is the time!

  • @sammosaurusrex

    @sammosaurusrex

    6 жыл бұрын

    Have you had difficulties using a regular compass lately? Probably not. So why should it be different for bee’s internal compasses? There can be spurious correlations, particularly when two events are correlated with time (i.e morning rush traffic levels correlate strongly with evening rush traffic levels in cities 8 hours away, despite the two traffic levels having no influence on them at all). Here’s a list of funny spurious correlations: www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations So, since this is so easily testable (simply expose one set of bees to radio waves and another don’t, and compare their navigation abilities), I doubt this is the cause. Maybe I’m wrong, and this hypothesis is just waiting for some visionary beekeeper to test it. But given that this is weighing heavily in beekeeper’s and scientist’s minds, I expect they’ve thought of this and ruled out.

  • @MrTwo-yv2up
    @MrTwo-yv2up7 жыл бұрын

    THE BEE MOVIE IS COMING TRUE! WE CAN'T USE HONEY!

  • @foxiedogitchypaws7141
    @foxiedogitchypaws71414 жыл бұрын

    Just blame Trump, that's what is normal now.

  • @raum-zeit-kontinuum34
    @raum-zeit-kontinuum345 жыл бұрын

    Chem Trails LOOK Up and Understand!!

  • @4125730
    @41257306 жыл бұрын

    U missed GM food !

  • @rjs700
    @rjs7006 жыл бұрын

    no it,s pestosides

  • @toxicavenger2200
    @toxicavenger22004 жыл бұрын

    Colony collapse is caused by cell phones and Wi-Fi.

  • @redleg3rdof16th5
    @redleg3rdof16th56 жыл бұрын

    freaking soy!!!

  • @rjs700
    @rjs7006 жыл бұрын

    pestoside exposure

  • @adagadaness
    @adagadaness3 жыл бұрын

    Ask Monsanto

  • @KristinaUSA-x5n
    @KristinaUSA-x5n2 жыл бұрын

    Neonictinoid pesticides by Monsanto.

  • @rjs700
    @rjs7006 жыл бұрын

    the man who said thair were as meany bees as we ever had is a lyer

  • @whatcolorisyourtoothbrush148

    @whatcolorisyourtoothbrush148

    5 жыл бұрын

    do you know how to spell?

  • @TheCozplayer
    @TheCozplayer6 жыл бұрын

    yall know that the everyday bees we see are actually an invasive species right?

  • @MB32904
    @MB329046 жыл бұрын

    major point: varroa mites are stupid

  • @johncase1353
    @johncase13539 жыл бұрын

    I blame China.

  • @mimehuan

    @mimehuan

    8 жыл бұрын

    +John Case i blame ignorant trolls like you

  • @johncase1353

    @johncase1353

    8 жыл бұрын

    Michelle Huang Trolling someone you think is trolling since you can't see a joke. Funny.

  • @MB32904

    @MB32904

    6 жыл бұрын

    it was eastern asia who brought the varroa mites

  • @DiracComb.7585
    @DiracComb.75855 жыл бұрын

    It is most definitely the rapture. God has stated that humanity is not worthy of one of his greatest creations, bees.

  • @presidentking9739
    @presidentking97395 жыл бұрын

    The Holy Scriptures speak of a severe drought before Christ return. Food cost will be "mind blowing"...

  • @KimWilsonTV
    @KimWilsonTV6 жыл бұрын

    Are you all insane....it is Monsanto's GMO crops WAKE UP

  • @GamingWithSpeed

    @GamingWithSpeed

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kim Wilson TV you need to wake up

  • @-Meric-

    @-Meric-

    6 жыл бұрын

    SomethingStupidYT Yeahp. I hate these armchair scientists, no link with gmos

  • @Oscarsadventures

    @Oscarsadventures

    6 жыл бұрын

    Is there evidence of this?

  • @WarpPal

    @WarpPal

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also aluminum nano particulates giving bees symptoms of Alzheimer's.