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"Apis mellifera."
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Have you ever been shrunk before?
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No. I've only ever wanted to grow up,
not down.
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I think you'll find the experience awful.
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What?
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I mean, "awesome."
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Sorry. I might have been shrunk
too many times.
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"Awesome."
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"Awful" is when you get unshrunk,
but we'll worry about that later.
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Do you know what's happening to the bees?
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'Cause I don't.
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- Can you tell me again, Jane?
- Yes, sir.
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Worker bees all around the world are
suddenly going missing from their hives.
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Worker bees collect food,
take care of the queen,
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feed the babies and defend the hive.
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But now they've disappeared.
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Yes, that is exactly what I was gonna say.
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And scientists still aren't sure why,
which is where you two come in.
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Your mission is to shrink down
in this ship,
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enter a honeybee colony, and figure out
why those bees are going missing.
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Do you accept your mission?
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I can't hear you!
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All right, David,
let's take it down a bit.
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I thought that was good.
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See? Greybeard likes it.
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Okay, fine. Go ahead.
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I can't hear you!
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Yes, sir!
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Hop on board, and let's save some bees.
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Ten, nine, eight,
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seven, six, five,
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four, three...
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- Two, one, zero!
- two, one, zero.
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- Shrink time.
- Shrink time.
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It worked. We're bee-sized.
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What's that smell?
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You're not just bee-sized,
you're bee-smelled too.
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One way bees talk to each other is
through smell,
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which this ship can make--
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You may wanna back up.
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Sorry. Bee smell is making me sneezy.
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That's okay.
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Let's get this mission started.
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Good luck.
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The world is depending on you!
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Bee spotted. Following for observation.
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The bee has landed on a flower.
Entering hover mode.
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What's the bee doing?
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Eating and gathering.
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- I'm moving in for a closer look.
- Cool.
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Bees drink the flower's nectar,
which is kind of like a sugar drink...
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with their tongue straws. Like this.
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Like this?
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But they also collect the flower's pollen
for food.
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They put it in the little sacks
on the back of their legs.
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Like reusable shopping bags?
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Exactly. Which they bring back to their...
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That's right, Greybeard. Beehive.
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Hold on, she's leaving.
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This might get bumpy.
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Approaching hive.
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It's "bee-autiful."
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Incredible, isn't it?
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Bees build hives for safety,
to store food and to raise their babies.
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- What was that?
- Whatever it is, it's right above you.
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Dragonfly.
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It's coming this way!
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Did you know dragonflies are
one of the bees' main predators?
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Yes, I did.
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A little help, David?
We're about to get eaten by a dragonfly.
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- Something's going on over there.
- Die!
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Yeah!
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- Millie, what's happening?
- Kurtis is throwing rocks at a beehive.
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What?
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Kurtis is throwing rocks at--
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No, Jane, wait!
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Jane, I'm coming!
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Someone's going to get in trouble.
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Yes! Booyah!
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Let's see if you can sting this.
Bye-bye, bees.
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No, that's their home!
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Bees are our friends!
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Without bees,
there would be almost no plants.
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And without plants, there would be no us.
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And without these bees,
Jadiel wouldn't have gotten stung,
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and neither would I. Ow!
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Bees don't sting unless they're trying
to protect each other or their home,
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which you're destroying!
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Whatever.
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- Let's go get a teacher.
- There's no time.
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Careful!
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She's gonna get in so much trouble.
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They're just bees!
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Okay, I see you. I see you.
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Hello.
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Just a minute!
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No, sorry. That was for-- Never mind.
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Yes, how can I help you?
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She did what?
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Jane?
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Yeah?
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What did you mean when you said,
"Without bees, there'd be almost no plants
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and then no us"?
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Plants need pollen to make more plants,
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and for almost all of them,
that pollen is carried by bees.
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- No bees--
- No us.
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- Jane.
- Mr. Harrison.
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I've just come from the nurse's office.
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You'll be relieved
to hear that Kurtis is okay.
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Just a few bee stings.
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And the Apis mellifera?
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Is that the scientific name for bees?
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Yes, it is.
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- I've called the extermina--
- Exterminator?
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But they didn't do anything wrong.
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Now, Jane, Kurtis was stung several time--
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In self-defense.
They wouldn't have done it otherwise.
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Hi, Mr. Harrison?
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Bees only sting
if one of them's in trouble
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or if their hive is under attack.
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Which it was.
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Thank you, David.
I'll be talking to you shortly.
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Billy in Mr. Lee's class
is still refusing to potty train.
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Dawn, I've got my hands full here.
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Well, so does Mr. Lee.
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C-call the custodian.
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I'll be there in a minute.
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I've called your mother.
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She's en route
so we can discuss this situation.
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Jane?
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Jane, you okay?
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No.
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I can't hear you!
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David, we can't. We're in trouble.
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So are the bees.
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Maybe we can find out something that will
stop Mr. Harrison from exterminating them.
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That's what I like to hear.
Are you ready to go back in?
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- Yes, sir.
- You have a mission to complete.
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We have to figure out
why those worker bees are going missing.
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But how are we going to escape
the dragonfly,
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so we can get into the hive and figure out
what's happening to the bees?
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Maybe it's time to smell in some backup.
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Before your mom gets here.
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Turn on intruder alert smell.
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I smell backup.
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They smelled our call for help.
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Yes!
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We're free!
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We're falling too fast!
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Why are those ones not moving?
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Bees die after they sting.
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What? But that means--
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Bees do whatever it takes
to protect each other.
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Kinda terrible defense.
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Heading back to the beehive.
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Approaching entrance.
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Turn on friend smell. Otherwise,
they might think we're a predator.
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And sting us until they die.
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Still can't get over that.
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Bees live in huge colonies.
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One queen,
thousands of workers and a few drones.
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Just one girl?
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Actually, all the workers are girls.
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There's only a few boy bees,
and none of them have stingers.
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You're right.
All the worker bees are missing.
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And we're here to figure out why
and how to fix it.
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- He's back!
- The dragonfly?
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No, worse. Mr. Harrison.
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And he's with your mom.
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It's this way.
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Hi, Jane's mom.
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Now, Jane, I've had a chance to update--
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- What were you thinking?
- I was just--
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- No, not a question.
- I was trying to save--
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Did I raise you
to solve your problems like this?
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- If I could just--
- Not now, David.
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"The least I can do is speak out for those
who cannot speak for themselves."
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We can talk about Jane Goodall later,
because Jane isn't here right now.
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She isn't late for work. I am.
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I just wanted to say that Jane taught me
how important bees are.
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- Without them--
- Thank you, David.
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Mom, Kurtis was gonna kill them.
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And so you should speak out
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using your words, not your hands.
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I'm sorry.
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Don't apologize to me.
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Apologize to...
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- What's his name again?
- Kurtis with a "K."
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Who I'm sure is also in trouble.
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For needlessly
and cruelly attacking a beehive?
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Surely that's not the kind of behavior
that's allowed here, Casey.
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That is a good point.
I'll be speaking to him next.
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Why not let Jane?
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Gives her a chance
to practice her speaking-out skills.
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A learning opportunity. I like it.
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I will pick you up after detention.
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Sorry again for making you come down here.
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It's okay. It sounded like
those bees needed your help.
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They still do.
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Listen, honey, it's easy to get angry.
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The hard part is learning how to use
that anger, that fire inside you,
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to change other people's minds.
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Do you think pushing Kurtis would stop him
from throwing rocks at bees again?
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- No.
- Exactly.
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I love you.
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Save your wrestling for me, okay?
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Maybe one day you'll win.
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Hey, Jane.
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Did you know that, to help bees,
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some kids have planted bee gardens
and bee baths at their schools?
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Look at how cute this is.
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She's taking a little bee bath.
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What are you two doing here?
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We thought we'd wait
until you got out of detention.
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We have a mission to complete.
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Thanks.
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Oh, my gosh, Greybeard, look at this one.
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How many stings did you get?
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I'm sorry for pushing you.
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I'm not sorry for saving the bees.
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But I still shouldn't have shoved you,
so I am sorry.
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I got stung three times.
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Jadiel got four.
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My worst one's right here.
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That would hurt.
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I once got stung on my face.
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- Really?
- Yeah, right here.
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I was, like, five or six
and trying to see inside their hive.
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But the bees didn't like it,
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and they stung me
before I even saw anything.
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- They thought I was trying to hurt them.
- Yeah, they're nasty.
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They can be,
but only to defend their friends,
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like what you were doing for Jadiel.
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I would've won if you hadn't shoved me.
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Against bees, people always win.
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It's an unfair fight.
That's why their colonies are dying.
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Did you ever see into a hive?
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- Sort of.
- Sort of?
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How good are you at imagining?
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I'm not playing with him.
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Imagining lets you picture
something you've never thought of before,
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like how someone you disagreed with
could become a friend.
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Or how something you tried to destroy
actually needs your protection.
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Are we still talking about bees?
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I'm a little confused too.
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Just close your eyes and imagine.
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I don't believe it.
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Where are we?
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Inside a ship inside a beehive,
trying to help the bee colony.
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Is this what you're doing when you're
running around the playground yelling?
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Yes.
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They built all this?
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But if this is a beehive,
where are all the bees?
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That's what we're trying to figure out.
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Worker bees from all over the world
are disappearing,
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and nobody knows why.
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Without the workers, the baby bees starve.
And with no babies--
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No more colony.
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No colony. No bees. No pollen.
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No more french fries?
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You're right. Bees pollinate potatoes.
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- So, no chips either.
- Right again.
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You should do something.
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We're trying, but we need everyone's help
if we're going to solve this problem.
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Buckle up.
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Why do those look different?
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Scanning.
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Uploading now, David.
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- Low sugar.
- They eat sugar?
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They get it from flower nectar,
which is pretty much all they eat.
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So why don't they just go out
and get more?
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Good question.
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Maybe because
there's not as many flowers anymore.
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- As cities get bigger--
- There are less places for them to grow.
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Causing the bees to disappear.
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This is why they're missing.
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That's why every single colony matters.
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You have a monkey?
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Chimpanzee.
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- That's not all you have!
- What was that?
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- The dragonfly is back.
- And it's headed for the queen!
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We need to help her.
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Every single colony matters, right?
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Right, but it's my turn to drive.
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Get ready for ramming speed.
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Remember how shoving doesn't work.
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Yeah, I remember.
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She needs our help!
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Can this thing smell like a queen bee?
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It sure can.
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It's working!
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- Oh, yeah!
- Yeah!
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Yeah!
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Good job, Jane. Good job, Kurtis.
Good job, Greybeard. Good job, me.
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- What happens now?
- We get eaten.
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Wow. Bees really don't have it easy, huh?
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No, which is why they know
they're stronger when they work together.
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The exterminators!
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Where are you going?
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Stronger if we work together, right?
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I'll race you to the principal's office.
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- I win!
- We need to stop the exterminators!
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Please don't kill the bees.
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But you saw I won, right?
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The running in the halls? Yeah, I saw it.
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Please, Mr. Harrison.
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Cancel the exterminator.
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- Yes! High five!
- Yeah, we did it!
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We saved the bees!
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She seems happy.
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We still need to finish her bee bath.
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- She won't sting me, right?
- She won't if you don't bother her.
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Kind of tickles.
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It was your idea
to plant a bee garden, right?
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I know it wasn't mine.
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Well...
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get "bee-sy."
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Okay, so, we can plant here
and where Greybeard is. Yeah.
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- Here's a good place too.
- Greybeard's helping too?
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Good job, Greybeard.
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Help save the bees.
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- Hold on. I'm almost there.
- I will.
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And why did we need to get
flower seeds, soil and clay?
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Melanie Kirby asked us to.
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She said it was a surprise.
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I love surprises,
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except when they're scary.
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Like that dragonfly.
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She's here.
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- Hi, Melanie.
- Hi, Jane. Hi, David.
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Thanks for talking to us about bees.
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We have everything you asked for.
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Hold on. Are those real bees behind you?
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Yes. This is an observation hive
that I use to teach people about bees.
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There's bees crawling around
on the honeycomb,
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taking care of their brothers, sisters
and their queen.
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- Here, let me show you a close-up.
- Is that a baby bee being born?
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Actually, it's a new adult bee.
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She was a baby larva
that hatched from an egg.
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And the queen lays
thousands of eggs a day.
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That must be a lot of work.
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She has nurse bees
that help her feed the babies.
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Nurse bees? Are there doctor bees?
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Well, the bees take care of each other.
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How many times have you gotten stung
working with bees?
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Not as many times as you would think.
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Here's me holding the bees.
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- It's so weird and cool.
- It is.
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Bees only sting when they feel threatened,
or to protect their home.
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Take a look at this.
It looks like I have a bee beard.
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They've taught me over 25 years
how to work with them,
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- so you shouldn't try this on your own.
- Don't worry. I won't.
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When did you know you wanted to help bees?
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My mom encouraged me
to serve as a volunteer in South America,
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where I got to work and learn a lot
from beekeepers and farmers.
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My Native American ancestors instilled in
me a profound sense of place and purpose.
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I like passing on knowledge
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and sharing stories of my experiences
with the next generation of beekeepers.
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Why is sharing stories important?
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Because that's how we learn.
That's how the bees teach each other.
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They're Mother Nature's best storytellers.
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They're storytellers too?
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- What can't bees do?
- We are all storytellers,
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and we share them in different ways.
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The bees share their stories
through the food they help grow.
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Take a look at this.
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When the bees are collecting
pollen and nectar,
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they're moving the pollen
from plant to plant.
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That allows the plant
to actually grow a fruit or vegetable.
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Is it true we can't survive without bees?
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It's true. All the food you see here
depends on bees.
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Which is why we need to protect them
from what's hurting them.
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Which is what exactly?
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Let me show you this.
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Let's think about it as the four P's.
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Parasites, pathogens,
poor nutrition and pesticides.
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Parasites are pests that can actually
cause damage to the bees,
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and they can pass pathogens
that are diseases and viruses
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that make the bees sick.
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And poor nutrition is when
the bees don't have enough flowers.
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Pesticides are actually
really strong chemicals
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that are used to deal with some
of the parasites,
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but they can
actually also poison the bees.
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And like the bees,
we can work together to help them.
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Here are some ways folks are helping.
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Marion Spence Pierson,
who started MO Hives,
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works with kids in the city to utilize
vacant land for hives and gardens.
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And here's Danielle Klein
and her daughter, Izzy,
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who are focused on educating communities
about the importance of bees.
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- What are they making?
- Those are seedballs.
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By planting your local flowers,
you can help the bees.
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And with the supplies I asked you
to bring, you can make some too.
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Here's how we make a seedball.
Start with some soil,
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and then you add some seeds.
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- Like this?
- Yeah, just like that.
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Then you add some wet clay,
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and roll it just like that,
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and here you have a seedball.
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You can toss them out anywhere
there's soil for them to grow flowers.
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- Like this?
- All done.
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Those are great.
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This is so cool.
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- We can ask everyone at school to do it.
- That's a fantastic idea.
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Thank you for talking to us about bees, Melanie.
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You're so very welcome.
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And remember,
your stories are important too.
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And you can help the bees share
their stories by planting more flowers.
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Bye.
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- Bye, Melanie.
- Bye, Melanie.
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Jane, let's go toss our seedballs.
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- Wait for me.
- I will.