Honeybees, who are essential for agricultural success, are in dire need of an upgrade in their digs. Conventional man-made beehives lose 40 to 50 percent of their colonies each year, but this is not the case in the wild, where bees exist in healthier, happier conditions. Deep-Dive with Michael Thiele as he “re-wilds” honey bees — introducing swarms to habitats that are more conducive to the instinctive preferences that allow them to thrive.

Biodiversity

Life on land

Climate change

Climate action

SCI.3.7.6

Design and construct models to simulate how animals disperse seeds or pollinate plants (e.g., animals brushing fur against seed pods and seeds falling off in other areas, birds and bees extracting nectar from flowers and transferring pollen from one plant to another).

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Describe ways that animals and plants interact with each other and with their environment, such as birds nesting in trees, deer eating plants, bees pollinating flowers, spiders eating insects, etc.

SCI.K.3.F.1.c

Explain the importance of eusociality in insects, such as ants, bees, and termites.

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compare and contrast the activities of some common animals (e.g., squirrels, chipmunks, butterflies, bees, ants, bats, frogs, and humans) during summer and winter by describing changes in their behaviors and body covering.

SCI.1.1.7.6

identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field; and

SCI.3.9.B

  Bee Dreams

Infrastructure industrialization

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Explain the interrelationships among improved agricultural production, population growth, urbanization, and commercialization.