Better Bees: Super Bee and Wild Bee

Gabriela Quirós Post on Jul 17, 2007 by
Topics: Biology, Environment, Television

California farmers depend on bees to pollinate the state's multi-million dollar fruit and nut crops, but last season thousands of bee colonies disappeared around the country. Meet two Northern California researchers looking for ways to make sure we always have bees to pollinate our crops.

You may view the "Better Bees: Super Bee and Wild Bee" TV Story online, as well as find additional links and resources. Also see additional photos for this story on our Super Bee and Wild Bee photo set on flickr.
Gabriela Quirós is a Segment Producer for KQED-TV, and is the producer for this story.

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  • Alberto

    Where are the bees? I went to your iTunes site and couldn't find them. I guess they are really gone!
    Please let me know when you have that video postcast available.
    Thanks!

    Alberto

  • Katharina

    Thank you, Quest and KQED, for highlighting Claire Kremen's work with native bees and Sue Cobey's work with honey bees!

    I also wanted to let viewers know that the demonstration hedgerow shown at the end of the segment is located at the Farm on Putah Creek in Winters, CA – in case people are interested in seeing this demonstration site in person. The Farm on Putah creek is run by the Center for Land-based Learning (www.landbasedlearning.org) and Audubon California's Landowner Stewardship Program (www.audubon-ca.org/LSP).

    Thanks again!
    Katharina

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