Curated Video
IPM: Helping Honey Bees Overcome Pests and Pesticides
This segment introduces Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a holistic strategy combatting the multiple threats to honey bees, including pesticide exposure, pests, pathogens, and poor nutrition. It highlights IPM techniques like timing...
Curated Video
The Buzz on Pollination: How Honey Bees Power Agriculture
This segment explores the vital role of honey bees in pollinating a wide variety of foods and producing honey. It highlights the threats to bee populations, known as the Four P’s: pesticides, pests, pathogens, and poor nutrition....
Curated Video
IPM: Combating Pathogens and Improving Bee Nutrition
This final segment of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) series showcases how IPM effectively addresses not just pest control and pesticide reduction but also crucial challenges like the Deformed Wing Virus and nutritional deficits in...
Curated Video
"Plant a Garden!" Music Video
The "Plant a Garden" song motivates children to support honey bees by cultivating diverse flower gardens. It teaches that such gardens offer vital sustenance for bees, promoting a pesticide-free approach to protect these essential...
Curated Video
Raiders of the Lost Hive - Part 2
The Boneheads embark on a mission to save honey bees and restore ecological balance. Despite Bonehead's distractions with dreams of grandeur, his friends T-Bone and Wishbone help keep him focused. Together, they navigate challenges to...
Curated Video
Raiders of the Lost Hive - Part 1
In this animated adventure, children explore the world of honey bees alongside characters parodying Indiana Jones and The Terminator. The villain, JP Rothbone, introduces a robotic pollinator to replace disappearing bees, threatening...
Curated Video
How Pathogens and Poor Nutrition Affect Honey Bees
This segment delves into how pathogens, particularly the Deformed Wing Virus transmitted by Varroa mites, detrimentally affect honey bee health and their critical role in ecosystems. It illustrates the compounded risks bees face from...
Curated Video
Pesticides, Pests, and Pollinators: A Delicate Balance
This segment examines how pesticides used in agriculture to combat pests like aphids can harm honey bees, essential for pollination. It explains the dilemma farmers face: needing to protect crops while preserving beneficial insects...
Curated Video
Revolutionizing Agriculture: Harnessing Plants' Natural Defenses to Protect Crops
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany are revolutionizing crop protection by harnessing plants' natural defenses to combat insect pests. Through innovative methods like using mechanical worms to simulate caterpillar attacks...
Curated Video
Wellbeing A-Z -Organic
Is there really any difference between traditionally grown fruit and vegies, and Organic? What about the taste? We weigh up the pros and cons of paying extra for your weekly groceries.
Curated Video
Environmental Impact of Agriculture
Dr. Forester discusses the importance of agriculture and teaches the students about the effects of pesticides. She also explains how the organic food industry helps the ecosystem.
Curated Video
Animal Horror Stories
Jessi shares some of the stories she's been told about sad or terrible things that have happened to animals. But, there's always something good that can come from every situation. So she also shares how to prevent the stories from...
Curated Video
Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management explores environmental effects by examining the potential impacts humans have on the environment when integrated pest management is used to control crop pestilence.
Nature League
Are Insects Really Going Extinct? - De-Natured
This week on Nature League, Brit Garner explores extinction threats to life on Earth by breaking down a recent scientific journal article about the endangered state of the world’s insects.
Curated Video
How Do Bug Sprays (Like Raid and Baygon) Kill Cockroaches?
Contrary to popular belief, cockroaches cannot survive a nuclear explosion; however, it is true that cockroaches are more tolerant of certain ionizing radiation than humans. Even so, they cannot survive bug spray, as it consists of...
Financial Times
French organic farming explores the unconventional
The FT’s Harriet Agnew visits what will be the world’s largest rooftop farm and a company growing strawberries and herbs in shipping containers. In the French countryside, she explores a chateau farm that shuns pesticides and ploughing,...
AllTime 10s
10 Ways Global Warming Is Already Killing You
Floods, Wildfires... 'Zombie Anthrax'?! If you thought it was just your Grandkids who'd have to deal with the effects of climate change, have we got news for you. Here's 10 Ways Global Warming is Already Killing You.
The Business Professor
Primary Federal Laws Governing Pesticides
Primary Federal Laws Governing Pesticides
Healthcare Triage
Five Second Rule Debunked!
Does anyone really think there's something magical about five seconds when it comes to food and the floor? There's a press release out this week (I still can't find the study) that claims that the five second rule is "real". It isn't. If...
FuseSchool
What Types of Chemical Industries Are There
Learn the basics about different types of chemical industries, from agriculture to pharmaceutical to energy, and many other uses. In this video, we consider the environmental impact caused by a range of different types of chemical...
The Viral Fever
The Food Files: Why fruit and veg is so important
Fruits and veg - one of the most important foods our parents drummed into us to eat as kids. Natureʼs super foods are definitely a daily necessity, but should we be worried about pesticides, which are used on them? Is fresh always better...
Mazz Media
Biomagnification
This live-action video program is about biomagnification. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
US Department of Agriculture
Helping Gulf Coast Farmers Increase Environmental Improvements
A USDA initiative along the Gulf of Mexico is helping farmers there improve water quality, reduce soil erosion and enhance wildlife habitat on their agricultural land. Farmers carry out conservation practices that prevent nutrients and...
msvgo
Population Ecology- An Introduction
It describes the role of biological agents for controlling pests. It describes genetically modified organisms (using Bt microbe) and their uses as biocontrol agents.