Be Smart
How Bees Can See the Invisible
What do bees use to get rid of tangles? A honey-comb! The video focuses on how bees instinctively find flowers — their eyes view the world differently than ours. They also seem to be guided by electric charges because the bees have a...
Amoeba Sisters
Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms
A colony of bees has moved into someone's home and the owners know how important bees are for pollination. Should they keep the bees? An informative video also includes a guide to plant reproduction including the male and...
Curated OER
The Beauty Of Pollination
Beautiful high-definition video footage by Louie Schwartzberg captures the flights of hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees up close. Fruits ripen with time-lapse photography and flowers bloom as these animals, along with bats, seek food...
Curated OER
Honey Bees - Life Cycle
Bees are the best! Learn about the life cycle of honey bees, their history, and how important they are to our environment. A professional honey bee keeper describes the metamorphosis, hive construction, and life cycle of the bee. A very...
Curated OER
A Genuine Bee Movie
Filmed like a teaser trailer for a dramatic movie, this clip showcases the adaptations of pollination and bees. Lady Bee flies from flower to flower while intermittent descriptions of her actions are highlighted. This is very cute.
Curated OER
Beneficial Pollinators
Hone in on the honeybee and learn how you can help these important pollinators from going extinct. Honeybees play an important role in plant growth; encourage your young biologists and environmentalists to see the significance of these...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Animal Videos: Learn About Bees
A fascinating look at life inside a beehive. (Video Length: 2 min. 42 sec.)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
An exploration of the bee colony collapse disorder. [7:45]
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Fears in the Garden
Check out this video in the How-to-Garden series that guides students through some of the most common fears in the garden, and teaches them how to manage them. [4:18]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 18
Find out about some household pests playing possum, mosquitoes who not welcome, and bees vs. wasps! [3:09]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 10
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like muddy bugs, busy bees, and skilled scorpions! [3:31]
PBS
Pbs News Hour: As Bees Continue to Die, Can Technology Take Their Place?
Humans rely heavily on pollinator bees to sustain food production globally. But for decades, the insects' population has declined, in part because of pesticide use. If the die-off continues, it will have huge economic and public health...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Getting the Springtime Buzz on Bees
A look at research into the behavior of bees as they work at pollinating flowers. Caffeine, which is present in nectar, turns out to be something that helps bees to remember types of flowers they have visited. Aired Mar. 8, 2013 [29:21 min]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Buzz on Bees: Coping With Vanishing Colonies
Researchers discuss bees in urban areas and beekeeping in the wake of colony collapse disorder.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Superorganism
Ira talks with eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler about ants, bees, and other social insects.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Parasitic Fly Threatens Honey Bee Populations
A biologist discusses the behavior of a parasitic fly that can cause honey bees to behave erratically, then kill them.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Video Pick: Springtime Bug Out
How do bees know when to emerge from hibernation? And what do they do all winter?
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: A Genuine Bee Movie
A spin off of a movie trailer showing a bee in search for the perfect pollen source! This video shows how a bees search for the perfect flower for their special needs. [1:07]
Other
Minute Earth: How Our Honey Is Made
The first minute presents an animated explanation of how bees make honey. The rest is an advertisement for MinuteEarth. [2:31]