More Than Honey

00:03:30 My grand-grand father and my grandfather were keeping bees

00:07:00 It's almost full bloom now.

00:09:12 It's sort of a deal that we made with the almond growers

00:12:50 then they store the honey into honey combs.

00:15:40 Here is the second nektar place. And here she is!

00:18:23 They are going to do what they are going to do.

00:21:03 There, behind that mountain, someone has bees.

00:23:09 The fact that the insemination happens in the air by other drones

00:26:08 Like trading glass pearls for gold with the native Americans 300 years ago.

00:28:46 Actually they just need one queen.

00:33:32 Should arrive by tomorrow.

00:38:49 On the big fields 1.5 million bee colonies are mingling

00:42:03 No evidence of brood.

00:45:49 Even the larva form a part of this information network.

00:50:05 the husbandry of the hive and the care and the compassion in the keeping of the hive."

00:56:28 We drive by car to the south, to the province Shanxi.

00:59:15 I travel in time to the future:

01:04:46 To replace the bees here, it would need many Chinese farmers.

01:07:57 then migrated through Central America and Mexico.

01:10:02 Before we get the bees excited.

01:12:14 Now I see, what the string is for.

01:15:40 we can basically study the queen genes

01:18:35 We should not try to concentrate on one special breed only

01:22:26 They will find a limb on a tree or something