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Why bees are disappearing

Marla Spivak · TED

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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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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2013
Speaker
Marla Spivak
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Earth and environment, History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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