Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2013
- Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak reveals four reasons which are interacting with tragic consequences. This is not simply a problem because bees pollinate a third of the world's crops. Could this incredible species be holding up a mirror for us?
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RUclips should promote this video in the main page for a good time. It's really outrageous how low priority this kind of subjects have.
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And your Lord inspired to the bee, Take for yourself among the mountains, houses, and among the trees and [in] that which they construct.
“Then eat from all the fruits and follow the ways of your Lord laid down [for you]. There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colours, in which there is healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.” (Quran 16:68-69)
I'm no botanist, but this makes complete sense to me. It even made me feel motivated to do something about this problem.... exactly what a TED talk should do
9 years later... Just wondering if you ended up doing anything to help the cause?
My family just got its first hive set up today. This video gives me great pride in our new endeavor.
Bees should remain Wild they are wild creatures. ruclips.net/video/P0XKvtACpSs/видео.html
Bayer-Monsanto is decimating the bees throughout the world with deadly chemicals such as glyphosate and dicamba, neonicotinoids, and list is long...this is just criminal!!!!!!! Over fifty percent of the world's bee population has become extinct and over three billion people worldwide are poisoned to death by pesticides.Darwin said that three years after the bees die we humans will die. Indigenously growing food and reverting to the wisdom that our ancestors had and which allowed us all to still be alive is what we must do if we are to stop killing our ecosystem. It is the persistence of corporate misguidance, our lifestyles,and food choices in the first place that are animal products and grains are not necessary for the health of humans or the environment
Getting my colony in 2020.
Watch this ...it will help you in your bee endeavours..maybe even save your colony one day.
Best of luck with your new family members ..the bees .
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shut up i dont care
Do you know how humiliating it would be to go extinct because we killed off bees?
If that happens Jesus will strike them down (Monsanto)
If the chem planes aren't downed by 2020, bees will die by 2022, we will die by 2026. Forget this people pollinate instead charade. No bees, no people. And the bees are dying mostly from the chem planes aluminum spraying. We've been spraying chems on them since 1950.
Dana William I hope you don’t have children
@@brownlee62534 yes and from mobile antennas and cell phones. 5G will be extinction event : ruclips.net/video/I0NetASlMgU/видео.html
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this is so helpful and she must have worked so hard to make this speech, so thank you!
This will help with my essay about bees disappearing and the stem project about bees so thanks
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The world needs more people like Marla Spivak. She is an inspiration to bee keepers all over the world.Thank you Marla !. From Phil Andrews in the U.K.
This beautiful lecture deserves more views..
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ALSO, apart from few exceptions, the whole bee keeping industry, specially in the USA is geared towards profit making where the well being of bees is being put on a knife's edge through *diabolical mistreatment* when they are being moved from location to location, often transported great distances and under atrocious conditions which put them under great strain.
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Soy médico y apicultor, hasta la fecha en TED solo he visto presentaciones de profesionales de la salud. Hoy quedé gratamente sorprendido al ver la excelente presente de Marla Spivak, una investigadora de reconocida trayectoria en el ambiente apícola. Enhorabuena que un tema tan crucial para la humanidad sea difundido por este medio de comunicación tan masivo.
Felicitaciones.
Breaks my heart the paradox we've created, and these little gifts from God are paying the price.
I sure miss the bees God sent to us to feed us and now distroying them
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Thanks for this comprehensive talk...I have long suspected these causes of bee decimation myself. Bees are my favorite animals and I really miss being able to garden. I had so many types of bees in my yard it sounded like a symphony! Let's hope other take this to heart...
She’s an icon, she’s a legend, and she is the moment
Superb video I myself am starting to get into bee keeping through my local bee keeping acociation to do my part and also spreading awareness of this to younger people to get more flowers and bee keepers.
Wonderful post. Thanks so much for getting this on the net.
Great information, thank you for laying it out so simply!
Another beautiful and moving talk, Time to go plant some flowers. :)
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Thank you maam thank you so much...this is an eye opener for all of us.
Personally I have a fear of bees, but I absolutely understand how vital they are for human life and our ecosystem. If we look after bees, they'll look after us...
+Xuvial Sylvester No they wont idiot. If you peacefully walk by 10 bees they attack you like bloodthristy demonic savages.
+Adam C Moron..
Bees are different from wasps. As you've seen, there are bees surrounding that girl's body and face but she's just fine. Why? Because unlike wasp, bees aren't aggressive and the only reason they sting you is because they saw you as a huge threat. They even die right after they sting you.
some people are allergic to bees. however, most people are simply scared of insects and need to be walked through and get over it.
wasps will attack u theres dozens of bees in my yard every summer & will fly right next to u and carry on with there day bees are actually very peaceful they will only attack if u try attacking them
bravo! well done. wellspring of vital information.
☠🐝 😁👍 *I'm deathly allergic to bee stings, but you can bet your life on it that I'm planting flowers this spring in any patch of dirt I can get my hands on, and spreading this video to everyone I know that will take time to watch it!*
I went to Norway and met the one of the biggest bee keeper his wife and children are allergic as well
@@peterllwlln How big was he?
You are allergic because of pesticides containing it
I just got my package bees 2 days ago and have been continuing to search for more information. Thank you for the excellent presentation. So far, so good with my first hive.
Did you order them through the internet? If yes, please consider getting them from a local Beekeeper instead, for the sent ones can be infected and could mess up other bee colonies in the area.
@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 I did get my bees from a recommended supplier over the internet. They did come with a state certificate. After two months they have been healthy and rapidly expanding an empty 10 frame deep box. I only have the one colony and there are no others near me. All future colony's I hope to make from this one by splits. Thanks for asking. So far, so good. :)
@@glenncerny8403 Ok well, just saying. Have fun with your ladies.
@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 Thanks.
I really like her. The way she gives the presentation or speech is just like telling a story.
Very Informative Marla, Thanks
beautiful speech! encouraged me to plant flowers :) thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention
I've suspected Monsatan for quite sometime : /
This was post 5 years ago and the situation is getting much worse and literally nobody does nothing until is too late.
I have been noticing a big decline in bees and bumblebees over 20 years... I have a predominate native landscape with dozens of native plants, which attract the native bumblebees mostly... I never see honeybees near my as they are mostly non-native from Europe and Africa, and are attracted to different cultivars..... I may take up beekeeping again to help them and my garden.... People need to stop using all these pesticides that permeate American culture......
Thank for all the information you have provided for us, thank you thank you, thank you!
Cover-crops are a very good natural way to keep not just bees healthy but the soil itself.
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A wonderful speech. All you need to know about this problem in just 15 minutes. Just learned that neonicotinoids have been banned in EU since 2013. Would be interesting to hear about the results of this.
Great talk... Very eye-opening!..
Cover-crops also help with floods, soil erosion and drought resistance. Cover crops keep the soil at a lower temperature during heat waves.
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Wow! She made me love bees and now I'm going to start growing flowers!
Bees need our help❀.
Earth❤deserves better from our species.
Plant more bee-friendly flowers and avoid pesticide contamination. Thank you Marla Spivak & TED.
#life #bees #MarlaSpivak #Earth #love #flowers #hope #ted #tedtalks
Thank you Ma'am Marla Spivak, I learned a great deal of stuff from your talk. I will study more how to integrate my bees along with my backyard farming.
Fascinating! Clearly explained too
American inspired monoculture agribusiness has a lot to answer for.
moving bees about stresses them. why aren't more american farmers keeping permanent year round hives?
and growing flowers in their almond orchard/plantations?
At the time of this writing, 32 people clearly need to take 1) a basic biology class and 2) a basic logic class. Good video, extremely important topic!
i thank this lady for bringing up such an important topic
tomato tickler is my new favourite sentence
Save the bees!
WHY does this have so little views. SO SO IMPORTANT!!!! Save the Bee's. ON behalf of the Bee's thank you. I am learning so much. Thank you TED talk for sharing. WE MUST SAVE THE BEE's.
thanks brett, much appreciated.
Amazing documentary. I wish more people have watched it.
Loved this. I hope we can learn a lesson from this.
Here is some follow up !!
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I was disappointed she didn't open with "I'm Marla Spivak-I speak for the bees."
thestrangejames 🤣😂
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You are right mem .... Really this is big issue in agriculture
Great video and you have made me a little more aware. I'll make an effort to help as much as I can. Greeting from Apache Junction, Arizona.
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They come from outside in my room after sunset and then they become unconscious and then die.😓😓😓😓😓
My friend doesn't like bees and doesn't care if they die. I JUST RAGE AT HER.
Hahahaha
I bet she'll enjoy starving to death when they go extinct.
get new friends who love bees
I'm glad I'm doing my small part by planting lots of nectar plants throughout the growing seasons in my backyard. I should've done it years before. Now I know many new plant species and it's really fun!
We are also beekeepers. A lot of hives in this area were lost - the speculation is at this point - to the long periods of extraordinary cold. The Polar Vortex. Our hive did not survive. The Almond crop in California was very late last year and our new bees were over a month late in coming. Who knows what will happen this year. This is one of the best talks I've seen on this topic. Thank you for it.
I plant wildflower and nasturtiums so bees come and make my tomatoes and peppers awesome.
I'm ordering flowers right now lol
Thank you for the information! U helped me do my homework.
Wow! Thank you for this video.
So basically in the U.S. since 1945 the human population has more than doubled & the bee population has more than halved, WE NEED MORE BEEKEEPERS.
its a definate concern for sure.
Jeff Heriot No we need less humans. Wake up to reality and realize humans are doing evil and destroying EVERYTHING we touch for money and luxury
The amount of beekeepers is not the problem, we already have many beekeepers but there are too many in an area that is too small to keep healthy bees.
BeeKeepers with no bees? As she said, the issue is how humans are disrupting all food chains of all living things.
No thats what we don't need....
Come on folks listen to this lady, take up bee keeping or at least plant perennial bee rich flowers.
Even if you scatter a packet of annual flowering seeds in a border it will help.
I'm a bee keeper in the uk and trying to keep the population growing.
I noticed Jeff made a comment, he's from Australia and a very good keeper.
Very well produced and illustrated...a must watch for everyone.....
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We have Bees in Alaska, Siberia and Russia Europe,Canada North America even in the coldest parts with short summers. We also have Bees in Hot Countries like India etc. There are Bees in every type of climate and they can adapt well to climate changes as they have done for thousands of years, Same with the flowers they feed on. The only places where Bees are in decline is where they are moved around endlessly some beek keepers move their hives hundreds of miles and not give them chance to adjust and wander why colony disappears. But one of the main places they disappear is in places where they use insecticides,herbicides and poison weedkillers destroying their food supply, Nothing more nothing less. I keep in touch with many bee keepers that are organic farms and not a single lost hive. Go figure, Its is not rocket science to work it out that Bees are not supposed to have a poisoned environment.
One more pointer factor is that some bee keepers are always treating their bees with chemicals to treat mite etc. This goes into the honey and pollen stores which then harm the larvae which then turn into weak bees that have no immune system.
Keep your bees pesticide free and they will be fine, Make sure there is enough forage flowers and aphids in the trees! Aphids provide honey dew which boost the Bees immune system naturally. Kill all the aphids = harming the bees aswell.
Did you know that honey bees can make bio active honey from aphids honey dew?
Next time you spray aphids with poison just know what your doing! playing your part in harming the bees as well.
It feels like I haven't seen a single bee 🐝 in ages..
Same :( it’s sad
Well, atleast not the solitary, efficient ones.
me too. and i live aaround flowers
We are heading to a total dependency on GM foods which in turn helps to the formation of Orveillian state world order ruled by few technocrats.. Oh God please have mercy on us and protect us from this calamity...
Excellent video thank you
great talk open mind
Thank you beekeepers!
Everyone should see this.
Thank you Ms. Spivak... I'm a new beekeeper (this spring) and the presentation was excellent and I can feel the love through you... There is so much to learn from these extensions of God (honey bee's)...
very enlightening....thanks
Ive got two hives coming in the spring :)
Krixig I think you're doing a great job for the bees and humanity on the whole. I hope that we as humans can reverse the damage done before it's too late.
actually, becoming a beekeeper is PART OF THE PROBLEM. We need more habitat, less pesticides and education.
How are they doing? :)
simple solution...ban Monsanto!
What about Bayer?
Andy Williams ban us from using this stuff. bayer, monsanto... on and on. we are the ones who need to stop buying this stuff.
Sandy Rowley It is really quite difficult to know what 'this stuff' is. It is not labelled and requires considerable amount of research to be done by the consumer. I only consume organic honey, but that's not necessarily a solution...
Your right Andy, but, there is hope. Search for organic bee keeping, permaculture, as well as buy and plant plants that are either certified organic OR from an organic resource you trust. NEVER spray with pesticides. Weeds can bee a good thing for bees and all native pollinators. There is plenty we can do. Find your passion and make it a done deal. ;)
Ban Monsanto?
First off, I'm a beekeeper in Knoxville, TN. I'm not defending Monsanto (or anyone else). If you think banning Monsanto will end Colony Collapse Disorder I think that you haven't spent enough time looking at the problem. This video alone shows a great deal about the problem. I've concluded, based on my own research, that Colony Collapse Disorder is caused by a variety of problems, not just one or two. Marla gives a very good example of how this happens.
Monsanto isn't here in Knoxville making trouble, but we are still losing 1/4 to 1/3 of our managed hives. Monsanto is only one of the many causes nationwide. Don't be blinded by your hatred of big business. Monsanto probably plays a roll, but they're also are a massive employer in the United States when we need jobs so badly. I think that your fighting the wrong fight. Let's try to figure out a solution, not an elimination. The solution also needs to not increase the costs of doing business too much for all of the farmers in the U.S. If it does, the cost of food will become too high.
I have an idea. It may not work exactly how I propose it, but it could be somewhere to start. What if all commercial farmers where required to keep a set number of working hives in their fields. That number could be based on acreage, or maybe annual yield. There could be some formula developed that would establish that number. It would also create a small economy around each farm because most farms would probably hired an established beekeeper to manage the hives. Based on the size of each bee hive management company they would employ skilled or semi-skilled beekeepers to help conduct this business. I haven't worked out any details, but this seems like a way to make corporate farmers seem more green, establish lots more jobs, and help the environment all in one fell swoop.
Tell me what you think.
awww did she say "plant flowers" at the end :P thats so sweet xxx
I live in a complex building were they keep mowing the lawn and the beautiful flowered dandelions 2x/week depriving bees from their natural flowers (and food) during the whole spring, summer and fall. The same for all the dandelions who are considered as "weeds" for our "modern" citizens.
Amazing that there are 46 peeps who hate bees . . . and eating much apparently . . . I hope the rest who liked this simple solution get busy like bees! I'm looking up native pesticide-free bee-friendly flowers right now!
Morgan Freeman has invested himself in the fight to save the bees. He has a huge bee farm with beekeepers. This is a fascinating thing that he did for us. I hope we get more people like Morgan in the near future, to help save our food supply. But that is the temporary band aid on the injury ... we have to insist that the evildoers stop poisoning the bees and the food chain. The nightmare is real. It was started by man, but man can end it. Please plant flowers that are native to your area for the birds, the bees, and the butterflies. Thank you Marla and also, Ted and RUclips for tis enlightening video. God bless us all.
I highly recommend getting a "Buddleja" or a Butterfly Bush as it is commonly called. Its beautiful, requires low maintenance--at least the one in my back yard--and attracts butterflies, bees, moths, and potentially other species.
I knew a while back that this was an issue but I didn't know it's still an issue and that it's getting worse.
This is not one of those issues that goes away quickly. It might fade from media attention though.
i have a huge variety of flowers in my front and back yards. and bees practically cover our huge yellow jazmin.
Thank you for interesting video! Best greetings from beekeepers in Kiev, Ukraine! :)
wow what a great presentation.
Thanks ! I was looking for solution since we can't really get rid of pesticides right away. So if get it right : plant flowers, cultivate more diverse grains and foods in all the areas, not just one, and find a way either to use natural fertilizer we used to use or pesticides that don't affect bees.
Here's some more solutions ...
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Beefriendly!
I love bees. I love bees so much
Awesome information! I'm old enough to remember when they said DDT was harmless to humans and showed newsreels of children playing in the mist of sprayed powder. Years later we learned it made birds' eggs thin and too fragile to hatch creating a reduction in songbird population. Sometimes I wonder if the release of africanized bees was really an accident.
If you are interested in creating a bee garden, you have a lot of choice. The easy way is to go to a garden centre and buy a bee friendly flowergarden mixture (eg Tubinger mix). You could also plant lavender, sunflowers, phacelia, willow trees, etc... Google. Look for flower/plants that provide nectar and pollen, and use a variety of plants that bloom at different times so that bees always have something to feed on. Grtz.
Sadly, however, almost no one knows there are actually numerous native North American bees that are very skilled at pollination. Native bees did 100% of the bee pollination before honey bees arrived. You may be even more surprised to know they are the more efficient pollinator for native plants. Like the Mason Bee
+Cajun Woodworking yea but the mason bee only pollinate in the spring
+Cajun Woodworking Thanks, Cajun (I'm from Louisiana myself). There are some 4,000 native bees in North America, those who evolved with our climate and vegetation, unlike the imported European honey bee. Seeing as we have many, many sizes and types of flowering plants, many, many sizes types of bees are critical to our ecosystem. I'm not sure about Louisiana, but in Texas, we have between 700 and 900 native bee species. No one is sure exactly how many we have, because very few scientists are studying them. Most, save the bumble bees, who pollinate tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and mason or blue orchard bees, are not commercially viable. That is, they cannot be managed, i.e., crated up and shipped from coast to coast.
they can't be exploited! we're only left with what profits corporations
None of what she said is even hard- get the government to spead seed on roadside, farms add roadside flowers to increase diversity and plant native plants on your property (personally).
It's not too hard you guys!! Do what you can :D
Or create strict regulations where you're required to plant X area of bee friendly flowers for every Y acre of farmland.
Thank you so much!
i love this woman! thank you! beautiful poetic language to describe charismatic creatures, combined with "scientific" or rational, objective observation. perfect synthesis of right-left brain. brava!
i liked the part when she talked about bees.
not one word about GMO crops - I wonder why
jmarylastone GMOs do nothing to bees thats why, they are discussing the pesticides used (mostly corn)
***** true.
darrell Gmo's contain pesticides in them.
***** Not necessarily. Remember, Genetically Modified Organism. It means that their genetic code was manipulated to produce a crop with different traits than normal.
They're not necessarily poisonous. Their genes would require them to produce a toxin that is harmful to bees, and naturally-produced toxins from plants are usually better-handled, and are probably designed to be toxic to plant-eaters, not necessarily to those that eat pollen and nectar.
GMO's aren't all-poisonous neurological chemicals like most insecticides.
Engineers of these GMO's are limited to genetic modifications that still allow the plant to live and produce food.
Edvard Johansson AND the issue with GMO is the enormous amounts of roundup and other pesticides used that kill he bees so YES GMO crops are related to increase in poisons.
Starting beekeeping may be the best and most helpful thing I've ever done.
I am an analytical chemist and natural scientist who worked with Dr. Marla Spivak years ago, when we were all worried about Africanized honeybees. This is top quality research with top quality results. Take warning from this message.
I'm an organic beekeeper (just over 500 hives)... My 10 year winter colony loss average is less than 3%... This lady isn't sharing the facts, obviously she has an agenda...
you didnt share any facts either. stop being a hypocrite.
***** Sorry if this is a stupid question...But do you have a phone mast near your hive? Did a change in death rates occur after it was built?
If you're an organic beekeeper, do you have four square miles of certified organic landscape for them to forage on?
With Bees you think in terms of radius, not Square... And yes, all of our hives have a minimum of a 5-6 mile radius of natural wild plants (Mostly wild flowers, scrub oak and sage) NO FARMED CROPS... Our bees rarely travel more than 2 miles... BTW we do not play the "Certified Organic" game... Our honey is sold as wild natural honey... Both our bees and customers love it... Also during early spring, we only feed honey and pollen back to the bees, never sugar... I refer to my beekeeping practices as organic for two reasons... 1. My bees do not feed on any farm land... 2. I do not use any antibiotics or unnatural chemicals on my bees...
I am an NASA ASTRONAUT
honeybees are the new canary in the cave.
Canary in the coalmine
marte thompson did you know all no honeybees are native to north America
It's canary in the mine.
The call to action is at 12:25 Go there and listen carefully. I searched for the study you mentioned and couldn't find it. Something like that would probably have come up in top results but you are welcome to direct me to a website or specific search term I should use.
Perfect presentation.
Save the Dandelions
Save the Bees.
Stop being like the Jones' and let the dandelions return to your yards folks. Stop pointing your fingers at farmers if you spend tons of money and time keeping the dandelions out of your yard. Bees Love Dandelions!
BriefcaseBlues I love dandelions and bees ^^
Yup, they do. Really rich pollen source.
"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live." - Albert Einstein
He didn't said that. :T
Great presentation.
The place where I used to live that I saw that was London, Ontario.