Which Came First - Flowers or Bees?
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Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and the other would disappear too. It begs the question: When it comes to evolution, which came first, the bees or the flowers?
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BTW, some flowering plants still can use wind blown pollen to achieve pollination. It is possible the first flowers were doing that before beetles started eating their pollen & carrying it from plant to plant as they looked for more pollen to eat.
Roses are red
Violets aren't blue
Violets are violet
So poems aren't true
True, although most people consider violet blue.
@cruz I do too, and I have more than perfect colour vision.
Is it just me or am I smarter
lmao
lol
I love this channel. These videos aren't all entirely new information for me because I'm studying biology, but here and there are tidbits I was unaware of, or thought about differently. And when the channel goes over what I've learned in university, I'm glad that other viewers can be enlightened with the same knowledge I had to pay for. Don't take this channel for granted, other viewers. Great job Joe and co (and bees!). Stay curious.
:)
'Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.'
Terence McKenna
Thank you for creating such a great explanation the relationship of flowers and our world.
Joe - Wow! This was great! Back in the 90s, I wrote 3 books on evolutionary biology, and I love the way you convey the latest, real science. Bravo! Loved, also, the Darwin quote. Us old folks remember the great naturalist Loren Eiseley's mesmerizing essay, "How Flowers Changed the World." Yes, stay curious!
Pretty cool show. We once had a bumble bee colony in an air vent in the side of my house. We didn't mind as we told them not to sting us and they can stay. Safe to say none of us or our dogs got stung over the colonies life spam. Was pretty cool watching them come and go
I remember "Blossom". I used to watch it all the time. Thanks for making me feel old.
"When you stop and smell the flowers thank the bees that got there first"
But didn't you just finish saying that flowers used to transmit pollen to other insects, and some wasps evolutionally developed a taste for pollen and eventually became bees? So the flowers gave rise to the bees so the flowers were there first?
Sure the bees made it so flowers still exist (allowed it so they could continue reproducing) but they definitely did not "[get] there first"
Darticus the Great
I think with the "that got there first" he means the bees before you yourself came to those flowers - not the bees and the flowers
Darticus the Great Of course "first" relative to "you" (one who is smelling). There can't be a meaningful absolute "first" anyways. The plants were there before the flowers/bees. Microbes were there even before that. The rocks were there even before life appeared on earth. May be the only absolute first would be the hydrogen nuclei created at big bang.
Yes he said all that but it went: flowers, crap insects, wasp eating crap insects with pollen on, wasp evolve to bees, bees eating flower sperm and then you...
This video has the best background music switches
"Here's a riddle"
Proceeds to recite a poem.
hahha
This is an easy one, flowers.
seth chizmar Right
So bees are vegan wasps.
#Themoreyouknow
Kaden Johnson xD true
vegetarian
u stole this from the top comment idiot
XD
Dear Mr. Smart,
Could you please accept my Romanian translation of your video.
I would like to share your video-smart with people that don't understand english. :)
Thank you
So would I. I'd be willing to help with portuguese subtitles. I'm sure many brazilians would love and benefit from this channel.
@3:33 joe you massive dork xD
That was really entertaining! Time to memorize and quote it later.
That's a bit of a strange question, when you think about it, since for example the honey bee was not native to the North American continent and there are many flowers which do not relly on bees for pollination. While bees, naturaly, are a very important part of the process, they are not the only way for flowers to do it, nor are they the only kind of insect that is pollinating flowers.
Posting my answer before watching: DUH flowers, pollen can travel by air. Something probably developed a sweet tasting pollinating bud which started attracting bugs (this is enough to be considered a flower - for my uneducated mind at least) and then petals and "pretty" stuff to attract bees obviously developed later.
Plague Doctor Woo! Logic win!
1:50 - 2:03 Best ever.
+Squidy i cringed
this video gives me ideas about the evolution of organisms that depends on other organisms in order to survive
I love how this one is full of puns.
Good question... Insects came first, then flowering plants, so I'd say that the ancestors of bees evolved first, then adapted to the presence of a new food source - FLOWERS!!
Love this Chanel!
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
I haven't watched the video yet, my hypothesis is that Flowers came first.
First of all, plants came way before animals, so it would only make sense if flowers came first. Secondly, the reproduction of plants, while are mostly caused by bees, are not dependent on bees.
First idea: Bees aren't the only pollinators. There are butterflies and other insects.
Second idea: The spreading of pollen can be produced by other forces such as wind.
5:0 I was expecting a "We wouldn't bee here today" pun
God I love this channel. There's really no reason not to like it
U DESERVE SO MUCH MORE SUBSCRIBER!
That crunch made me jealous of that bee
OH GOD NOT THE BEES
2:52
So it's eating the plant's nut??
Really like all your videos. Can you please make a video of why dinosaur were so huge and what did dinosaur evolve from?
From lizard like reptiles. Please do some research.
I always just thought bees liked nectar and the pollen was attached to the legs that dropped off. Learn something every day
What is the middle step between a fern and a flower
Your puns are the baddest
Your grammar is the baddest.
You're*
Thanks a lot
Bees are cute~
Those flowers you were talking to looked scary. I couldn't talk to them like that. I think I still have some anthophobia inside me (besides that of really tall dandelions; those are FREAKY)
For your next video can you explain what the uncertainty principle is? It seems really cool, but I'm still not quite sure what it is!
the bee movie but everytime there is a bee in a movie it will show the biology of the bees
What does it mean to say magnolia trees are "one of the oldest flowering plant species still around today"? Perhaps what you mean to say is it diverged from other lineages of flowering plants a very long time ago. Those other lineages are just as "old" as the magnolia.
What a nice story
This is really interesting
can you please do a video on the Wollemi Pine tree
There are other pollinators as well.
How do solar panels work?
101patryks They turn sunlight into electric energy. c:
Amelia Hartman But how, though. How do they do that?
TheRojam12 Magic. c:
All it really is is photons knocking electrons from atoms, causing them to move, hence generating a flow of electricity.
Unless you're going to try and build one from scratch you probably don't need to know much more than that.
Amelia Hartman That does make sense, thank you, random citizen!!
TheRojam12 google "photoelectric effect" if you wish to know more :3
How do this channel have less than a million subscribers ? :P
Awesome vid !!
Agree. It's illuminati as there PBS and not mainstream! (The triangle beast is keeping them down!)
Guys I just had the best idea for a remake. Buck Bumble, in the dinosaur age!!!! Right after the meteor that supposedly broke everything, you'd play as a bee in the harsh aftermath trying to regrow dem plants. Not quite as radioactive as the original but it has plenty of potential.
I have mangolia trees in my neighborhood!!
Dear, Beegod.
We don't talk much.
But I wanna thank you for my existence.
And your sacrifices.
Amen.
I love bees and my first research project is on bees.
What about melipona bees
Roses are usually red, violets are effing purple.
Pimp Doubt i think what we call purple now, was blue. heard it somewhere, cant recall where.
@@Gytiss93 It's something that used to be called violet is now called blue.
Could you do an episode on the 40 fruit tree? Thanks!
Wow what a interesting thing we came to known
A good portion of our staple crops are types of grasses... mammals owe far more to grasses and grass plains... Just saying. Grasses may be among the flowering plants but they rely on wind pollination. They either abandoned the complex relationships, with pollinators at least, or stayed with simple methods of pollination and evolved in other ways.
Here's my two cents on evolutionary biology, using logic, not religion:
If evolution is random, then why does every evolutionary biologist suggest that environmental conditions stimulated the genetic mutations? It seems more like a decision based change (intelligence) - due to the environmental factors.
If symbiosis came about through evolution, there must have been a period of time when the plant developed a mutation in which it needed a pollinator, however, the pollinators haven't evolved at the same time, therefore the plant species would cease to exist, correct?
Adenosine Triphosphate: this enzyme is essentially one of the most important factors of life - it provides energy to every cell. If energy was not able to be transformed from one form to another, then even the first life form would not be able to procreate. ATP motors show irreducible complexity, and each part is perfectly made to work together with all of the other parts.
I have other, better arguments, however, I see no reason to continue, partly because there is sure to be an "evolutionary scientist" who would love to bash on my arguments using misconceptions and logical fallacies. Feel free to do so, however, I have spoken to biology professors, other evolutionary biologists, and searched the internet far and wide, and none have satisfied me with sufficient evidence for a counter-argument.
The reason, evolution is random but also depends on enviroment is because all animals which aren't suited for their enviroment, likely dies.
You can thing of dice: Throw 100 of them and put all away whose number isn't one/ is one/ is odd/ etc. Then throw the reminding ones again untill you are left with one. That's the basic idea of the natural selection.
Evolution is not just random, it is also adaption
@@MarioFanGamer659 natural selection is not random (well, sometimes there are random mutations, which aren't always good). The species that are better adapted to an environment have a higher survival chance (the differences aren't always physical, it could be how it thinks), thus, more of them will survive. The ones who do not survive i.e. the less adapted ones, will eventually die out. Th eonly ones left will be the better adapted species. This carries on and on
Without watching the video, the flowers. A flower can have its pollen spread by the wind, or by being brushed by a passing animal. A pollinator cannot become a pollinator, without the pollen in the first place.
How about this, day one: planets, space, time, light. day two: Atmosphere. Day three: dry land, plants (including flowers). day four: sun, moon, and stars. day five: sea, and flying animals (including bees).day six: land animals.
You're doing a really great job... keep it up :))
Those wildflowers look suspiciously Texan. Is that perhaps the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center? I've never been there, but my mother volunteered as a docent when she lived in Austin.
And if I'd waited to the end I'd have had my answer.
10/10 Love the video!
dragonlord2461 -IGN
Great video guys! :)
The Bunyip Beekeeper Change your name to 'flower' and type in "first" in the comment section.
1:43 amy from the big bang theory!!!
HajoBenzin1 Well I don't watch Big Bang Theory so I don't know if it's the same girl or not. But that photo is a reference to Mayim Bialik from the tv show Blossom.
yep, thats amy from the big bang theory.
And no kudos for the pun " blossomed " and accompanying "Bad-am -tss " music at 1:43 ? Ha-Ha.
I screamed MAYIM BIALICK YAYAYAYAYAYAY
(before watching the video)
Flowers don't use bees only, the could live with other insects, animals and wind.
Vojta Sekera We know. You probably should of watched the video FIRST
amazing
Awesome ....
When a bee shows up during recess and your the only one still there.
What does pbs mean
Do you think there's been a trend over the course of evolution, at least since the Cambrian, away from predation and towards symbiosis? Cause it seems like it... and I hope so...
So you’re telling me my FAVORITE creature is the reason I exist?? 😭😭
I suddenly wonder how pollen tastes.
Rather spicy, a bit sour. Little crunchy. I would say rather nice. And it's super healthy. Full of vitamins and stuff
It is theorized that the first pollinator was a Beatle, not a bee.
I would like to see a video explaining how the alleged meteor strike that killed off the dinosaurs didn't do likewise to the insects, the flowers, the dinosaur ancestors of birds, the insignificant mammals, et. al.
Did you see the mantis?
At 3 54
Is a grasshopper.
You can make it great teacher on top of it you’re so funny lol thank you for sharing
so basically flowers came before bees, they were wasps then turned into bees that helped the flowers reproduce again ? so the answer is flowers came first ?
someone please reply , little lost
"I'm sorry your grandmother died, here's a bundle of another species' genitalia to look at and smell." Flowers are WEIRD!
So you are saying that wasps randomly turned into bees?
'a circle has no beginning nor an end'
i know what about butter flies or just flies O.o?
So how do we save the bees??
Worship the bee god
Charles Darwin called Flowers an Abdominal Mystery!
So,all conifer pants have a "wind"man?
Plants first then living creatures,
Besides flowers can self-pollinate
I got a suggest for your next video, which came first me or me.
UniqueHacK3R | HD | Official shut up you
Preston Hall what did i do?
UniqueHacK3R | HD | Official lol it was a joke haha your good man your good
adagioforstrings007 it was a joke, like your life and grammar.
UniqueHacK3R | HD | Official
I feel like you shouldn't criticize his grammar, when your original comment says "I got a suggest for your next video."
in all known laws on aviation, there is no way that bees should be able to fly
Save the bees!
Instead of treating myself, since it's my birthday, I am just watching this.
So did flowering plants evolve before the first fruit?
I think so
+brandon booker No, Ginkgo for example has fruit-like things. Fruits are just there to package the semen. It's also an advantage which needs interactions with animals.
UV vision isn't unique to bees, almost all insects have UV/blue/green trichromatic vision (as opposed to our own blue/green/red). Tiny nitpick aside, great work It's Okay To Be Smart!
Hey, can you talk about the Dr Frank Fenner's theory about human extinction that was recently reiterated by David Auerbach and what we, as species, can do about it?
A bee tongue is something i didn't expect. Kinda gross.
***** Here, have a closeup! : bybio.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/bumblebee-tongue.jpg
Their 'tongues' are actually more like mops that soak up the low viscous nectar using a high density of follicles and the surface tension of the nectar, isn't nature amazing?
Pepijn Rietveld That's awesome, didn't expect that.
Pepijn Rietveld that picture was not as gross as I thought it would be.
which came first? Chicken or Egg?
flowers obviously
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
flowers new bees
and bees need them too.
Brings new meaning to "Those flowers are sexy"
so insects are the tinder of the plant kingdom?
The gaping whole in this explanation is how a flower biomechanically achieved nectar through random mutation over time. What does it take for a flower to make nectar ... It must be a series of events all to attract a bug that does not yet exist. Random mutation over time does not build complex structures. Creationism is the only logical explanation.
Thank you
great!