☊ [ Whirring ] ♪♪ - The Pollinators (2019)

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• [ Bees buzzing ] -We rely on the managed honey bee for our r...
• [ Reverse signal beeping ] ♪♪
• [ Indistinct talking in distance ] ...this year.
• When you first go into a beehive, you are, like, worried abo...
• So, when a semi truck gets to its destination, there'll be a...
• It was shocking how much pesticide. and the diversity of pes...
• One of them is producing honey, but, of course, the reason t...
• The managed honey bee. has the beekeeper helping them surviv...
• When the spring bloom comes, we'll take the bees, and we'll...
• -Something changed after World War II in America for agricul...
• Say, you know, a couple hundred thousand of them are already...
• Once the crop has bloomed, there's nothing there for the bee...
• And this is a real -- a real concern, that pesticides seem t...
• Now we start crisscrossing the United States, that's all don...
• And a lot of people think that this is one of the reasons. w...
• The almond pollination is. the biggest pollination event in...
• They're so widely marketed and so widely used. that they're,...
• -Well, most beekeepers, including ourselves -- now if you're...
• It's about -- be about 40 tractor trailer loads.
• Our business, basically -- it's a timing situation, that orc...
• In 1996, Congress passed the Food Quality Protection Act. th...
• -So, the problem is that native pollinators have disappeared...
• It's not some kind of magic, it's a deep biological process,...
• But if you like your fruits and vegetables and your nuts, a...
• -It's so important what happens in California 'cause it sets...