to use their bees, because of scrupulous bee thieves. >> reporter: it is the sound of money to bee thieveswhat law enforcement calls a growing ag crime. it is guy rutters business, he's a beekeeper in galt with 3,000 of these boxes each one with a hive inside. >> it's the monetary value ranges between 100 to $200 a colony depending on the size of it and the condition. >> reporter: he rents his bees to growers to pollinate a wide variety of crops. four years ago the going rate for a box was $50. now it's tripled and thefts are up. >> some folks seem to think that picking up other people's hives and either selling them or moving them into orchards for their own purposes it's the thing to do. >> reporter: rutter has not been victimized but his fellow beekeepers have to the tune of $60,000 in one recent heist. >> i came here in 19 # 19 -- 1976 and it was going on then. >> reporter: bee thieves will steal hives and then rent them to growers for $150. half up front and the other half at the end of the season. >> that's $75 a colony that the individual gets with no intention to ever come back. >>

millions of bees?ow many do you own for instance? >> i've cut back to 10,000, as i try to grasp on everything that's going on. and there's a lot of -- i'd say it takes well over -- almost 2 million hives to pallennate thal mofnedalmond crop in california now. >> are you closer to understand what to do and what not to do to cut your losses over the course of a year ? when you have bee keepers opening up hives to find everybody dead or to find it inextricably empty, that's a catastrophic kind of event and it's hard to know how to adjust to it. but if we are getting closer maybe you have some wisdom you can pass on about what's working and what's not working in your own case. >> well, like for last year, example, i mean when i started looking at the bees, right after christmastime, it was just like, you know, somebody kicking you in the gut. you just couldn't believe what you were finding. and you start wondering, you know, what did you do wrong? because you know this is your livelihood, and you take thin

(bee buzzing) yeah, it's a bee! (giggling) come on, boy. you should leave bees alone. arf! whoa! is that... an astronaut? i don't know. maybe it's a space alien! (bees buzzing) hello. greetings, space alien! i am gil. welcome to planet earth! thank you, gil. but i'm not an alien. i'm a beekeeper! both: a beekeeper? that's right! i take care of bees. (bubble puppy whimpering) aw, don't be afraid, puppy. bees won't hurt you if you leave them alone. ah, ah, ah. get the back to the hive now and make some honey. bees make honey? they certainly do! see those boxes up there? those are beehives! that's where the bees live and make their honey! i love honey! it's delicious! me too! oh, so do i! here. take some! wow! thank you! thanks! you're welcome. "bee" sure to come back and see us again! (giggling) bye! see you later! (barking) (molly and gill buzzing) come on! ♪ here! hello! hello! all: good morning, mr. grouper! well, good morning, everyone! (molly and gil buzzing) (giggling) whoa-ho! looks like we've got some busy bees here today! mr. grouper! a beekeeper gave us some honey that be

. >> it's like a bee cult. >> it is but it's a girl bee cult. >> a girl bee cult.ho runs the colony? that's right. the ladies. starting with the one and only queen lays eggs, while the female busy feeding the queen and doing pollination work. what can i say? a woman bee's work is never done. so what now? >> i think we get you suited up, hot and sweaty. >> i'm ready for the next thing. >> okay. great. ♪ >> i am out there like a ghost buster. prepared to do my first bit of bee keeping here. i really don't want to get stung. that's my goal today, to not get stung and i just jinxed myself by saying that. my first lesson, not get stung. that's my smoker. what's this purpose? >> in the hive, bees communicate with a pheromone and what that does is get all the bees ready to guard the hive. but the smoke masks the pheromone and also, they can think there's a fire nearby and forge themselves on honey. so the honey is like for thanksgiving, oh, we're kind of -- you can get them all to leave. creates this hask in tvoc in th. just enough smoke so they're calm and not buzzing to

the bees? >> i've been looking at the bees for several years because of the program and i've been fascinated of how beekeepers migrated across the country, and almonds in california, and cranberries in maine, and market coordination. >> we have community coming in here: >> jennifer, back to you, take me through this domino affect, and suppose the bees keep dwindling, how will that affect us as human beings? >> so right now, we know we have lost about 40% of our bee colonies over the last ten years. i'm talking commercial bees at this point. and if we continue to lose commercial bees at that rate, we won't be able to pollinate our food in another ten years, and this is very serious. this is a food security issue that i don't think can be overstated. in fact, when i talk to epa scientists working on this issue, they say it's one of the most serious food security issues right now, with the loss of the bees. so it's very very serious. now, we can import commercial bees. and the they have many of th

where did the bees go? >> ," seen in my own operation. ," seen a significant decline in the number of colonies -- i have seen it in my own operation. i have seen a significant decline in the number of colonies i am able to keep alive. it reflects what is going on nationally. one out of every three u.s. honey bee colonies was lost during the winter of 2010-2011, but some beekeepers say the losses are much higher. >> our losses over the year are running 50% to 80%. unsustainable. if you are strictly a honey producer and this is your job, you cannot survive and they are not surviving. >> why are usda reports so low? it could be because the survey was based on data reported by only 20% of u.s. beekeepers and because it included only winter and full year losses. >> that is a very narrow snapshot of win bees die. when we look at the full picture, we understand webee losses are substantial and continual on the -- we understand that the bee losses are substantial and continuing on the downward trend. haveate regula

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crops by bees. >> if we lose bees we'll lose a significant part of our food supply. that's it. without bees we don't get fruits. we don't get a lot of animal feeds that are dependent on bee pollination. there are many things we'll lose. >> and this week's report may have the u.s. listening closely to our buzzing buddies. >> virus in colonies, an immune system up presse suppressed, pes applied to crops. there are a lot of ideas about what is killing bees. joining us on inside story here in washington our guests. tiffany, this is being presented as a good year. is 23% a sustainable amount of winter death for bees? >> no,, it's not. bees pollinate $15 billion of the food crop we eat every year. if we continue to see numbers at this rate its extremely unsustainable for our u.s. farmers, for consumers and for the economy. what we saw from this study is that it glossed over the--one of the leading causes contributing to this client which is pesticide. pesticide, a specific class of pesticide has been implicated as one of the key factors in the global bee die off. last year the europe

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bees. silicon valley is taking side and arming the bees. this week on "press here." good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. 2020 has been pretty tough so far. if there's anything that kind of went a little right, it's that the murder hornets never showed difficult. even bees deal with coronavirus, they do have to deal with sudden colony collapse. ironically, they have to deal with hornets. this is video of hornets kidnapping bees. it's fascinating video recorded by a palo alto company called bee hero which has developed sensors to watch for incoming hornets. they have made radar for bees. now for the record, these are asian giant hornets, not murder hornets. but i don't think the poor bee cares one way or another. we'll show you more video later. i promise. we'll get to the ceo and cofounder of bee hero. a man forever stuck happily on the bee team. i have so many questions. let's go with the fact that bees are very important to farms. farmers actually bring bees in to the farms and the bee keepers

why write a book about bees? my interest in these dates back to my time in graduate school where i was studying the pollen dispersal and genetics of these large rain forest trees in central america. i had gone out and genetically fingerprinted all of the adult trees of a particular species in this landscape so that i could see how the genes were moving around amongst them, and i knew that something up there, out of sight, in the rain forest canopy was moving pollen around, not just between neighboring trees but among individuals of a mile and a half apart. because that tree was a member of the family and have this big purple p flowers just like the sweet peas or garden keys in your yard, i knew that was something so i coerced a friend of mine into joining me for a couple weeks and we hired a local businessman who was handy with a crossbow and we spent two weeks firing lines up into the rain forest canopy and hauling up all manner of insect traps and catching a grand total of zero bees. the only time we saw b was

that are wild bees?there are two elements to that. the 1970's or 1980's, there's a big feral population. havethe rise of one might imagined you wake up all feral bees. some people argue all bees that survive more than one or two generations have to be managed by humans. so the relationship is much more it became really tight at that point. if they go and make a hive in the way we imagine in our heads and come in and out of nature in the woods, they are not going to survive very long will stop there are a few exceptions like one researcher in washington says he may have found one, but it is very rare. the wild be doesn't exist anymore than the wild cattle does in this country. it is more of a fiction. keepersent of the heaping bees in the city as a solution, i think it's great to keep these. i think we should do that. it raises our attentiveness to bees, but i don't think it's going to save the bees anymore. bees, all of the kind of these you get in those i'm going ton say do my own beekeeping here and ge

pesticides, including those bee keepers use are proving lethal to bees. they are especially deadly when chemicals from different fields cocktail. >> we think it's a combination of different elements. it's like heart disease. you can be predisposed, not eat well or exercise well. it's one or a combination of the factor. we think it's these three factors that are predesposing the colonies to die down. >> the die off is a concern to farmers and the food industry as to beekeepers. one in every three bites of food are pol jipated by honey bees. everything from fruit and reg table. honey bees contribute $15 bullion to the u.s. economy. >> they are the third most important livestock. they provide more economic value to the u.s. economy. >> based with a threat to the food supply, the president obama administration invested $50 million. advocates insist consumers and industry can do more. without the produce money bees make possible, it's not just their health at stake, it could be our own >>> a key question raised by the story is what can be done. ali spoke to no

now that we're already away from bees can normally talk calmly, because bees don’t like it when beesm, they really like some sharp sounds and so on, yes, that’s why here is the very place when we can talk. and there is someone whom the bees, well, they love more with whom they feel more relaxed. for example, the bees definitely feel good - it’s a person or it happens to come. and people are just people coming berries can drop by. well, get drunk on water, who else, well, there are people who, for example, are not blessed with bees, that is, based on the fact that i i didn’t leave there as a chinese beekeeper, bitten by everything, you can say that i’m nothing like that, and also a person who deals with bees should smell, let’s say. naturally, that is, you can’t use perfume, you can’t smoke, because the pungent smells of these insects are very annoying. i wouldn't want to catch them when they're not in the mood. well, in general, seriously, that's how many there are in a day, and such gratings open a peak, probably 40 cancers a day. i like to do nothing more , and then also to relax.

bees! tom: cool! bees are brilliant. both: whoa! [buzzing] i love bees too.i need for my ladybirds. hey! these here are my flowers! go somewhere else! but, ariela, wouldn't it be better to share? we should look after bees. i need that nectar you're taking for my ladybirds. shoo! shoo! did you hear me? this is my nectar. [buzzing gibberish] did y'all understand that? 'cause i sure didn't. not me. me neither. [bees buzzing gibberish] hey! follow those bees. [all gasping] whoa! those bees sure have been busy. i'm sure that hive wasn't there yesterday. they're collecting the nectar to make honey. couldn't you work together? no, tom. there's plenty of other flowers they can get nectar from. i need your help to keep the bees away from mine. my ladybirds need that nectar. okay, ariela. if it's really important to you, we'll help you. nectar protectors at your service. yee-haw! action stations, y'all. tom, twigs, you try to scare 'em and i'll try to snare 'em. [buzzing] stop! leave these flowers alone. buzz off! [giggling] "buzz off," 'cause they're bees. hey? [whimp

when we think about bees, most think about honey bees. they are native to the united states, and 20,000 bees around the world, different species. we need to think about all bees, all pollinators. we like food. if we eat food and vegetables, you need to think about where they are coming from. bees are a pol jipator, and economic commodity. >> where they have disappeared, tell me about the people that bring bees in. what is that about? >> there are more bees lying on flat bed trucks than permanent places. thing about bees 20, 30 years ago with the grandparent's generation. it's in the backyard or a farm. we have to move the pol jipators around. almonds, blueberries, cranberries, there's nothing left for the bees to feed op when they fall off. they have to stay on the mood to feed. >> that sounds like a business opportunity, but you say it's not good either. >> it's not good. different bees pollinate different crops in different ways. there's a reliance on bumblebees. different bees pollinate blueberries, cranberries in different ways. farme

nothing. >> bee kooepers are witnessing an alarming problem. how many bees are we losing? >> the losses are avt ron omic am. i lost 65% of my operation last winter. we look in the ground to see if there's dead bees on the ground. most people in the u.s. would be happy staying away from the honey bee. >> they are critically important to the u.s. food supply. they provide $15 billion in revenue, and one-third relies on the industrious pollinators. the demand for pollinator crops, the fruit and vegetables, is increasing. the supply of bees is decreasing. the general term is colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon seen before, but this time it is different say the bee keepers. >> seeing a number of things that we have never seen before. bees just disappearing. >> not only disappearing, they are dying in large numbers. >> something like this, like i picked up. what happened to the bee. why can't it stand. why is the mouth out? what is going on. >> if the probiscus is extended out, it's an indication that they are trying to remove something poisonous from their stomach, and it is

the bee king of the bee family.same place, the queen to participate in the life of a bee is an extremely exciting thing, but as they say, it's time and honor to know so well, that, here my day has come to an end with you. i want to thank you very much. for the experience i got. thank you for having a modern belarusian villages have such people. there is such a wonderful, friendly big cool family. i'll go to rest in the morning to wake up, please, please, thank you oh, what a long and busy day until we meet again, while the guys always have the feeling that the city and the village are two different worlds, the townspeople live at the same pace, the villagers live in another, but all of us residents of a big city do not sometimes it will slow down to finally remember the real meaning of words, silence and clean air. here i am, waiting for the next weekend to break out of the modern multistory man. see you. lord lord have mercy on my path for god's sake lord bless you lord this is a panorama of the live broadcast of t

the supply of bees is decreasing. the general term is colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon seen before, but this time it is different say the bee keepers. >> seeing a number of things that we have never seen before. bees just disappearing. >> not only disappearing, they are dying in large numbers. >> something like this, like i picked up. what happened to the bee. why can't it stand. why is the mouth out? what is going on. >> if the probiscus is extended out, it's an indication that they are trying to remove something poisonous from their stomach, and it is a symptom seen on a chemically poisoned bee. >> scientists haven't reached consensus, but the disorder has everyone anxious. we headed north to seattle washington into the remote pugid sound where cutting-edge research is underway. >> in whitby island on washington state scientists are looking at a way. they are doing it by building a healthier bee with artificial insemination. >> this is where it happens. >> i'll show you my insemination lab. i can do what doesn

their bees happen to be more aggressive than ours. >> kept bees for millennia. of years. >> a lot of them, they still used the log hives. those hives they usually harvest just once a year, because they were so high in the trees. >> very traditional method of beekeeping is to take a log hive, populate it with bees, pull out all the honey and brood, usually take the honey and eat it. and that's not really beekeeping, to my mind. >> so the gentleman that comes to introduce and visit us and say something about your group. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we gathered everyone here this morning, because we needed to begin at the beginning, just to go back to basics. >> so with we'll start, who is in the boo hive? there are three characters in the beehive. >> and we tried to teach them that you could use wax, you could make candles, you could use the pollen. there's many parts of the hive. >> there are five products inside the beehive. >> they were unaware of the five products, honey, pollen, jelly, and wax. they were only aware of honey. so that's only 20% of what was

beekeeper doing work with a bee, this is not only servicing bee colonies; in addition, bees are engagedre not used for circulation in the vultures. i reheat the cart using the child’s method, i cook hundred frames for the feed bin, i get it from. homogeneous mass, stir, bring to the same consistency and use a bucket to pour it into a bag, using the screw of a wax press, the wax is squeezed out, you get round, beautiful bars of wax, which are later used for processing in the art industry... and artificial wax again sticks on the frame, puts it on the bee, the bees remove the honeycombs, and so there is such a cycle, i am grateful to life that i chose this path, of course, i have decided in life, i have decided on what i love, i... everything works out, i think to myself , who know their job, in their place, so as long as your health allows, we will work until then, as i will work with bees, a feeling of complete creation, that means, but happy, happy, the concept is also flexible, not only happiness, is a happy person when you yourself are healthy, your family is healthy, children, grand

bees. his company, "bee raw honey", works with beekeepers all across the country. >> but, you know, the reality is, is that bees pollinate over 100 different fruits and vegetables. we're talking about strawberries, broccoli, apples, melons, pumpkins -- i mean, really basic fruits and vegetables that we eat every day. >> that's why what's happening in the bee world is causing alarm in the human world. bees are dying in droves and disappearing from hives. it's called "colony collapse disorder", or ccd. >> colony collapse disorder has affected over 10 million hives -- in fact, killed 10 million hives over the past six years. >> no one knows why this is happening. there are many theories. it could be a virus, or tiny insects called mites that attack the bees, or the problem may be man-made. >> we have pesticides that are put on everything, you know, from fruits and vegetables, beans, corn, soy, and bees fly around and they collect pollen and nectar from these plants, and, you know, those pestic