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Shane investigates the future of bees, from honey bees to wild native species, in a changing world.
Everyone knows the honey bee, but it’s just one species – there are 20,000 others! Humans have depended on bees – both wild and managed – for millennia. But as bee populations collapse around the world, can we save them before it’s too late?
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Episode 4 Preview
Preview: Season 2 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Everyone knows the honey bee, but it’s just one species – there are 20,000 others! Humans have depended on bees – both wild and managed – for millennia. But as bee populations collapse around the world, can we save them before it’s too late?
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Do you think you know what it means to be human? In Human Footprint, Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton asks us all to think again. As he discovers, the story of our impact on the world around us is more complicated — and much more surprising — than you might realize.Providing Support for PBS.org
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Our honeybees have become indispensable, yet the honeybee is just one species.
(woman) Most bees are definitely not like honeybees.
(host) And today we’re putting them, and maybe ourselves, in danger.
(man) If bees are not thriving, that’s a direct reflection on what our health will be.
(host) This is the Human Footprint of bees.
(energetic music) (bee buzzing)
The Pollination Economy: Inside America's Bee Crisis
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Clip: S2 Ep4 | 12m 42s | Shane meets the beekeepers and scientists racing to save America's pollination workforce. (12m 42s)
Rusty-Patched Rescue: Saving America's Wild Bees
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Clip: S2 Ep4 | 4m 11s | Clay Bolt and Shane trace the decline of wild bees — and fight to bring them back. (4m 11s)
The Secret Life of Squash Bees
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Clip: S2 Ep4 | 9m 58s | Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms. (9m 58s)
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