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This is our first year raising honeybees in our new beehives, and i wanted to make beekeeping videos to show you all that you too can raise bees. We are not the experts here, but one learns by doing. So we do things, make videos. Gardenfork.tv Distributed by Tubemogul.

For several years we've heard the bad news about honeybees. They're disappearing. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has ravaged bee colonies throughout the world and is likely due to a perfect storm of factors?habitat loss, industrial agriculture, the heavy use of pesticides, global warming, etc. Over the weekend the 41st world apiculture congress met in France to assess the state of the honeybee and noted that the situation is pretty grim. If current trends continue the European bee keeping industry will be wiped out in the next decade. An average of 300,00 colonies a year have disappeared from France since 1995, the same year that Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin published their book, The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind, and in which they noted that 17,000 to 100,00 species vanish from our planet every year. Today, right now, we are living through the sixth great extinction and some estimate that by the end of the century half of all species will have disappeared. ?The golden frogs of Panama are gone,? reads a recent poem by Mark Strand. Now we learn that it is not only the honeybee but also bumblebees that are fighting for survival. A report in Earth Island Journal reveals that a North American bumblebee found only in northern California and southern Oregon has disappeared, last seen in 2006. Several other species have also experienced alarming declines. These are insects that have been around for millions of years and on which plants, animals, and, yes, humans rely for their pollination. As one of the scientists quoted in the article says, ?It would be like if you went out one day and there were no cardinals or mockingbirds anymore. It?s that obvious to bee people.? The cause: well, this time global warming is not high on the list. Rather, the spread of disease from commercially reared bumblebees used to pollinate greenhouse tomatoes is the leading culprit. As a result America's native pollinators may be in danger. If there is a thread that connects the honeybee and bumblebee declines it is our system of industrial agriculture that depends on the bees for pollination and has at the same time accelerated habitat loss and the widespread use of pesticides. Rachel Carson warned of a silent spring way back in 1962. It seems we still haven't gotten the message.

Watch as we harvest honey from one of our beehives in our first year of beekeeping. Keeping Honeybees is not hard to do, come along as we learn about our bees and how to work a beehive, and all the fun stuff in between. Check out our site for more info: www.gardenfork.tv

How to harvest honey? Learn about Beekeeping and Honeybees in our continuing series of Beginning beekeeping Gardenfork shows. Beekeeping is a great hobby, watch as we work thru our first year of beekeeping Distributed by Tubemogul.

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NASA's Wayne Esaias sees honeybees as important data collectors to help us understand our changing climate. Read about this story: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/beekeepers.html Want more? Subscribe to NASA on iTunes! http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283424434 Or get tweeted by NASA: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard

Honeybees are amazing, we are beginnng beekeepers and we are inspecting the hive in late August, adding a super and a queen excluder. Watch as we learn the right and wrong way to raise honeybees. more info on our site www.gardenfork.tv

Walter (Steve) Sheppard is one busy man, flying his own plane around the Pacific Northwest to meet with beekeepers and deliver queen-breeding stock produced in his honey bee breeding program to beekeeper collaborators. He also travels to countries such as Kazakhstan to study populations of honey bees from wild apple forests that have the potential to be added to Washington State University breeding stock. Over the years, he and his students have bred bees to resist parasites and diseases, produce more honey, and survive harsh winters better than their ancestors. He's even bred friendlier bees that are easier for beekeepers to work with.Among the problems Sheppard is working on now is colony collapse disorder, in which honey bees leave their hives and simply don't return. There are reports that the disorder has devastated commercial bee operations in many parts of the country, although it is still a rare occurrence in the Pacific Northwest.Honey bee health is crucial to the nation's farmers and fruit growers, who rely on bees to pollinate crops such as apples, cranberries, and watermelons. Together, honey-bee-pollinated crops are worth more than $9 billion a year to the American economy.Earlier this year we caught up with Prof. Sheppard while he and his crew were bringing honey bees out of their winter hives and distributing them into small mating hives where the new queens will be produced over the summer. Sheppard talked with us about honey bee health, his breeding program, and the research he's doing to try to pinpoint the cause of colony collapse disorder.Sheppard directs the Apis Molecular Systematics Laboratory at WSU. He was a member of the Honey Bee Genome Project, an international consortium of scientists that earlier this year published the complete DNA sequence of the honey bee, Apis mellifera.In a series of five brief video clips produced by Adam Ratliff and Cherie Winner for Washington State Magazine Online, Steve Sheppard talks about honey bee health and colony collapse disorder.

Walter (Steve) Sheppard is one busy man, flying his own plane around the Pacific Northwest to meet with beekeepers and deliver queen-breeding stock produced in his honey bee breeding program to beekeeper collaborators. He also travels to countries such as Kazakhstan to study populations of honey bees from wild apple forests that have the potential to be added to Washington State University breeding stock. Over the years, he and his students have bred bees to resist parasites and diseases, produce more honey, and survive harsh winters better than their ancestors. He's even bred friendlier bees that are easier for beekeepers to work with.Among the problems Sheppard is working on now is colony collapse disorder, in which honey bees leave their hives and simply don't return. There are reports that the disorder has devastated commercial bee operations in many parts of the country, although it is still a rare occurrence in the Pacific Northwest.Honey bee health is crucial to the nation's farmers and fruit growers, who rely on bees to pollinate crops such as apples, cranberries, and watermelons. Together, honey-bee-pollinated crops are worth more than $9 billion a year to the American economy.Earlier this year we caught up with Prof. Sheppard while he and his crew were bringing honey bees out of their winter hives and distributing them into small mating hives where the new queens will be produced over the summer. Sheppard talked with us about honey bee health, his breeding program, and the research he's doing to try to pinpoint the cause of colony collapse disorder.Sheppard directs the Apis Molecular Systematics Laboratory at WSU. He was a member of the Honey Bee Genome Project, an international consortium of scientists that earlier this year published the complete DNA sequence of the honey bee, Apis mellifera.

Walter (Steve) Sheppard is one busy man, flying his own plane around the Pacific Northwest to meet with beekeepers and deliver queen-breeding stock produced in his honey bee breeding program to beekeeper collaborators. He also travels to countries such as Kazakhstan to study populations of honey bees from wild apple forests that have the potential to be added to Washington State University breeding stock. Over the years, he and his students have bred bees to resist parasites and diseases, produce more honey, and survive harsh winters better than their ancestors. He's even bred friendlier bees that are easier for beekeepers to work with.Among the problems Sheppard is working on now is colony collapse disorder, in which honey bees leave their hives and simply don't return. There are reports that the disorder has devastated commercial bee operations in many parts of the country, although it is still a rare occurrence in the Pacific Northwest.Honey bee health is crucial to the nation's farmers and fruit growers, who rely on bees to pollinate crops such as apples, cranberries, and watermelons. Together, honey-bee-pollinated crops are worth more than $9 billion a year to the American economy.Earlier this year we caught up with Prof. Sheppard while he and his crew were bringing honey bees out of their winter hives and distributing them into small mating hives where the new queens will be produced over the summer. Sheppard talked with us about honey bee health, his breeding program, and the research he's doing to try to pinpoint the cause of colony collapse disorder.Sheppard directs the Apis Molecular Systematics Laboratory at WSU. He was a member of the Honey Bee Genome Project, an international consortium of scientists that earlier this year published the complete DNA sequence of the honey bee, Apis mellifera.This video combines all five video clips produced by Adam Ratliff and Cherie Winner for Washington State Magazine Online, in which Steve Sheppard talks about honey bee health and colony collapse disorder.

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Colony Collapse Disorder is causing honey bees around the world to die without explanation. Backyard beekeepers and experts describe the relationship between humans and bees, how CCD is impacting colonies, and how everyone can help their recovery. More content like this at http://life.gaiam.com .