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Everybody is replacing queens, you know
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The Pollinators

Everybody is replacing queens,you know, at an unheard of rate

Everybody is replacing queens,
you know, at an unheard of rate

Full Transcript

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Everybody is replacing queens, you know,
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at an unheard of rate.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:34:25
Uploaded
Jun 16, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Stonykill Films

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Movie Summary

A cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat.
We're going to put in some queen cells - The Pollinators 00:07
We're going to put in some queen cells
And that's what is in this box here, - The Pollinators 00:16
And that's what is in this box here,
So, what I'll be doing is, I'll be taking these, - The Pollinators 00:10
So, what I'll be doing is, I'll be taking these,
I mean, literally, three, four years, - The Pollinators 00:07
I mean, literally, three, four years,
A lot of guys are out there, - The Pollinators 00:04
A lot of guys are out there,
You know, maybe they don't use a hundred a day, - The Pollinators 00:08
You know, maybe they don't use a hundred a day,
-There are about 320 hives that we're going to assess - The Pollinators 00:18
-There are about 320 hives that we're going to assess
[ Bees buzzing ] - The Pollinators 00:11
[ Bees buzzing ]
I mean, you got to -- You just basically got to be - The Pollinators 00:06
I mean, you got to -- You just basically got to be
You know, if queens are starting to fail, - The Pollinators 00:08
You know, if queens are starting to fail,
[ Bees buzzing ] - The Pollinators 00:11
[ Bees buzzing ]
There's a Varroa mite on that drone larva. - The Pollinators 00:05
There's a Varroa mite on that drone larva.
Red, orange fleck there on the larva here is - The Pollinators 00:07
Red, orange fleck there on the larva here is
They were accidentally imported. - The Pollinators 00:05
They were accidentally imported.
-Varroa destructor is public enemy number one, by far. - The Pollinators 00:05
-Varroa destructor is public enemy number one, by far.
It was a parasite in Southeast Asia, - The Pollinators 00:07
It was a parasite in Southeast Asia,
Now it's present pretty much everywhere honey bees are kept. - The Pollinators 00:05
Now it's present pretty much everywhere honey bees are ...
-It's a small, little mite - The Pollinators 00:12
-It's a small, little mite
So, it's a huge parasite relative to the bee's body. - The Pollinators 00:04
So, it's a huge parasite relative to the bee's bod...
And it, literally, just pokes - The Pollinators 00:10
And it, literally, just pokes