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Do you remember the headlines screaming that the bees are going extinct? Whatever happened to that? We looked into it and turns out the honeybees are doing fine. But the wild bees aren't. What does this mean, how much should we worry, and what can we do? I'll sort it out for you.

The paper with the meta-analysis about causes for colony collapse disorder that I mention at 1 minute 50 seconds is this: https://journals.plos.org/plos....one/article?id=10.13

The paper about the combined effects of pesticides on bees that I mention at 3 minutes 7 seconds is this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03787-7

Data about honeybee losses that I mention at 4 minutes 55 seconds are from this website: https://beeinformed.org/2021/0....6/21/united-states-h

The paper about the lack of pollinator supply that I discuss at 5 minutes 20 seconds is this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/....science/article/pii/

The estimates for the contribution of wild bees to pollination at 5 minutes 45 seconds are from here: https://academic.oup.com/biosc....ience/article/56/4/3

The numbers about the decline of wild bees that I discuss at 8 mins 10 secs are from this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/....science/article/pii/

At 9 mins 10 seconds I mention that honeybees pass on viruses to wild bees, more about this in this recent paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05603-2

The paper I discuss at 9 mins 35 seconds about the food fights between honeybees and wild bees is this https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27591-y
The paper with a similar finding that I mention at 9 mins 50 seconds is this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26640681/

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0:00 Intro
0:45 Colony Collapse Disorder
3:34 The situation of the honeybees
5:27 Wild bees
7:49 The situation of the wild bees
10:20 What does it mean and what can we do?
12:10 Sponsor message

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