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Dohrn:
This is Bristol, England...
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{\an1}and this is my garden.
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{\an1}It's not really that special.
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{\an1}We've just let some
of the wild back in.
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{\an1}But as a wildlife filmmaker, I
knew there were revelations here
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that could be just as amazing
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{\an1}as anything I'd ever
filmed across the globe.
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{\an1}In the spring of 2020,
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as the country
goes into lockdown,
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outside,
the garden is coming alive.
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{\an1}Suddenly, there are bees
emerging all over.
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{\an1}These bees, they just go zoom,
you know, zoom.
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{\an1}But if they're nesting,
I can't get near them.
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{\an1}I can see these little antennae
come up,
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{\an1}but they look over,
and I'm absolutely still,
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{\an1}but now I have to go
to the focus
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{\an1}and as soon as I do that,
they go down again.
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{\an1}Discovering the secret life
of bees took me
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on a journey
I was not expecting.
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{\an7}[ Sirens wailing ]
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{\an1}Dohrn: Let's have a look.
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Cripes.
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Oh, dear.
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Man: [ Laughs ]
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{\an1}Dohrn: For over 30 years,
I've been filming wild animals
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{\an1}all over the world,
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{\an1}and all of a sudden,
I'm locked down at home.
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{\an1}My only escape now
from the pandemic
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{\an1}is in my city garden
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{\an1}and my fascination with
the wild bees that live here.
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{\an1}Turning my cameras
onto my own backyard
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{\an1}is revealing things
as spectacular
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{\an1}as anything I have
ever seen before.
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Transporting me
to another universe.
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{\an1}Another dimension of existence.
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{\an1}Have I just got pandemic fever
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or is it just
another midlife crisis?
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{\an1}Nah. I'm too old for
a midlife crisis,
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it's more of
a late-life revelation.
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{\an7}Bees are fast. You can't
film them with ordinary cameras
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{\an7}and ordinary lenses.
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{\an1}If you've got something just
going like this,
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well, you know,
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you don't know
what the hell it's doing.
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{\an1}You really need fast reflexes,
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{\an1}you need equipment
that's barely been developed,
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you have to film
everything in slow motion,
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{\an1}and you have to have
the reactions of a hawk.
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{\an1}I've probably got reactions
as good as a rabbit.
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{\an1}Probably not even that good.
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[ Laughs ]
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{\an1}I'm traveling into
a hidden world
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{\an1}but one that exists
around us all.
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{\an1}Even in a garden like this
in the middle of the city,
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{\an1}there is an astonishing
diversity of bees.
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{\an1}If I told people, "Oh, yeah,
there's 60 species of bee
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in my garden, " they go, " Really?
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Are you sure?"
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{\an1}I go, "Yeah, well more than 60."
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{\an1}One of the very first bees out
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{\an1}is the hairy-footed flower bee.
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{\an1}Check out his hairy legs.
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{\an1}I can get close to film
these bees
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{\an1}because they fly between
the same patches of flowers,
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{\an1}scent-marking their routes
as they go.
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{\an1}They're like perfumed
bee highways.
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{\an1}These bees just go zoom,
you know, zoom.
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{\an1}These, of all the bees,
are the most fun to watch
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{\an1}because of their sheer precision
flying.
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{\an1}They can literally turn
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on a sixpence
in a fraction of a second.
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{\an1}They got these funny
little beady eyes
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{\an1}and they this really
kind of keen hovering,
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{\an1}and when the female moves,
they follow her round
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and they...
And I just love that.
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{\an1}In those early weeks,
most of the other bees
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{\an1}were not even out yet.
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{\an1}Man:
Today the prime minister
has announced
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{\an1}that to save lives
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{\an1}and to stop the spread of the
virus, we must stay at home.
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{\an1}Dohrn: As everyone in
the country retreats indoors,
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underground,
the garden is coming alive.
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{\an1}What most people don't realize
is actually bees
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{\an1}spend much of their lives
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{\an1}not as a lovely bee
flying around in the sun
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{\an1}but in the dark as an egg,
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{\an1}or a sort of maggoty thing
in a nest somewhere.
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{\an1}Then there's the transformation,
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from a larvae...
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{\an1}into a flying wonder of nature.
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Metamorphosis...
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It really
is an extraordinary process.
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It takes 21 days
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{\an1}for these domesticated
honey bees to make the leap.
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{\an1}There are 270 other species
of bee in this country.
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{\an1}They are the wild bees.
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Very different
to the social honey bee
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{\an1}that we're all so used to.
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{\an1}They mostly live solitary lives,
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{\an1}and many will have been waiting
fully formed
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{\an1}throughout the winter.
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{\an1}Each species with its own
particular time to emerge,
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{\an1}coinciding with the flowers
it likes the best.
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{\an1}In complete darkness,
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{\an1}somehow each bee knows
which way to head
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on its journey
to reach the light.
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{\an1}This is the first time
they've seen the world.
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{\an1}When the bee comes out
of its hole, they sit there
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{\an1}and they look out and
they do this with their head.
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{\an1}They're doing, like,
a kind of pixel shift thing.
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{\an1}I think what they're trying
to do
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a very high-resolution image
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{\an1}that they will need
to remember to return to.
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{\an1}Suddenly, there are bees
emerging all over the garden.
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It's kicking off
all over the place.
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{\an1}But this is the challenge...
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{\an1}if I want to know more
about their lives,
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somehow,
I've got to follow them.
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Women vocalizing
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{\an1}This garden in spring
is utterly beautiful.
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{\an1}I'm amazed that so much
diversity can exist
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{\an1}in such a small place.
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{\an1}Woman: ♪ Open your eyes ♪
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{\an1}♪ Look around you ♪
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{\an1}♪ Feel the breeze ♪
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♪ On your face ♪
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{\an1}Dohrn: It's not really special,
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{\an1}we've just let some
of the wild back in.
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{\an1}We didn't really try very hard
to kind of manicure it.
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{\an1}We just... A lot of things
we just relaxed about.
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{\an1}Man: It's full of weeds
basically is what you're saying?
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{\an1}Dohrn: There's no such thing
as a weed,
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{\an1}there's only plants
that people don't understand.
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{\an1}They're all as beautiful
as any kind of fancy tulips
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{\an1}or chrysanthemums.
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Indeed for me,
they're more beautiful
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{\an1}because they've been
created entirely
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{\an1}by the forces of evolution.
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That is nature.
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For me, a flower
is more beautiful
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{\an1}if you can see the bee it
was built for actually using it.
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{\an1}The flower bees have evolved
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{\an1}alongside tubular flowers
like these.
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{\an1}It's not until you have
the luxury of having
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{\an1}the pictures in slow motion,
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{\an1}in focus, in a way
that you can go,
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"Oh, I see,
that's what it's doing."
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{\an1}I had no idea they had
such huge tongues,
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{\an1}it really is longer
than its body.
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{\an1}As she drinks, she buzzes her
wing muscles,
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dislodging pollen
onto her body...
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{\an1}...which she takes
to the next flower.
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{\an1}Bees are at the center of the
world's pollination services.
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{\an1}They are pollinating
the fabric of life.
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{\an1}Yet, all over the world,
bees are declining.
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{\an1}We really do need to start
taking more notice of them.
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{\an1}But opening up the secret life
of the bees is not as easy
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{\an1}as I was expecting.
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{\an1}I soon found out that many
of the bees
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{\an1}really didn't want
to be filmed at all.
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{\an1}The first month was
incredibly frustrating
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{\an1}because I had all this
extraordinary behavior
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{\an1}just going on in front of me
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that I could see
from 10 feet away,
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{\an1}but as soon as I tried to zoom
in on it with the camera,
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it either stopped
or, you know, they flew away.
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The flower bees
kind of accepted me.
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{\an1}I mean, it was easy
to frighten them off...
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{\an1}...but some of the other bees
I simply couldn't get near.
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{\an1}The furrow bees, you know,
if they're nesting,
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{\an1}I can't get near them
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{\an1}and it is hilarious
to watch them.
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I can see
these little antennae come up
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{\an1}and then I can see
these little eyes come up,
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{\an1}and they look over
and I'm absolutely still,
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but now
I have to go to the focus,
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{\an1}and as soon as I do that,
they go down again.
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{\an1}It can take half a day
to get through that process
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{\an1}where the bee's going, "Okay,
it's not going away,
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{\an1}I'm hungry, I've got to go
and do something."
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{\an1}I've had plenty of experience
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{\an1}filming small animals
of all kinds.
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{\an1}My last film was about ants
with David Attenborough.
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But wild bees
are very different.
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They're so alert, to get close,
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I have to invent
all kinds of gadgets.
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There we go.
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This is a lens.
It's a super-tiny,
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{\an1}super-wide-angle lens,
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{\an1}super-high quality.
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{\an1}That is the purpose
of all of this stuff.
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In order to get
anywhere near the bees,
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{\an1}I have to kind of shrink myself
down to their size,
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{\an1}but I also have to stretch time.
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{\an1}Bees live in a completely
different dimension.
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{\an1}At this scale, we get
a fresh view
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{\an1}on the physics of bee existence.
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{\an1}And what it's like to be
a creature
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{\an1}that weighs a fraction
of an ounce
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{\an1}but that can gather
over 100 times its body weight
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in pollen
in just a matter of weeks.
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{\an1}This is the bee that everyone
said couldn't possibly fly,
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{\an1}but of course she can fly
extremely well.
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{\an1}You see those wing beats?
Above them are mini tornados
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{\an1}which actually suck her
into the air.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}In this dimension,
the sound shifts as well.
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{\an1}[ Buzzing, fluttering ]
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{\an1}[ Slow-motion chirping,
buzzing ]
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{\an1}Listening to bird calls filmed
at this speed
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{\an1}evokes their dinosaur origins.
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{\an1}[ Distorted chirping ]
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{\an1}Well, for me anyway.
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{\an1}It is incredible to see
how they develop
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an understanding
of their surroundings
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{\an1}and how their experience grows.
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{\an1}When any of the bees come out,
most of them have never
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{\an1}even seen a flower before.
They don't know what it is.
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{\an1}When they discover something
like a dandelion,
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{\an1}they get plastered in pollen.
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You only see that
on the first days in spring.
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{\an1}Shortly after, they know
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{\an1}that they don't want
to get covered in pollen.
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{\an1}They either collect it
or leave it alone.
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It seems to me
they are learning.
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{\an1}But actually, for me, the most
interesting bit is the males
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{\an1}when they emerge, not only have
they not seen flowers,
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{\an1}they've never seen
a female either.
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{\an1}They must have some kind of
instinctive urge to look
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for something
that resembles a female.
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{\an1}But they are not very good
at it yet.
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{\an1}They're jumping on flies,
they're jumping on leaves,
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{\an1}they're jumping on completely
different species of bee.
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{\an1}This only happens in the early
part of their lives.
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{\an1}They learn quickly
from their mistakes.
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{\an1}They only live a week or so,
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{\an1}and the race is on
to find a mate.
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{\an1}I'm not sure I could say
that insects were in love,
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{\an1}but certainly male bees
are in lust.
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{\an1}The flower bee males are
actually quite good
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{\an1}at identifying their females.
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{\an1}Even so, he's still
not having much luck.
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{\an1}I think what his aim is
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he wants to jump on her back
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{\an1}and enclose her wings
so that she can't fly away.
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Time after time,
he fails miserably.
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{\an1}She was just foraging quietly
on her own.
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{\an1}Next thing she knows,
she's being slammed
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{\an1}from the side by an amorous male
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{\an1}and now they're tumbling
through the undergrowth.
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{\an1}A look of shock, anger,
horror, you know,
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even in a bee
with no facial expressions
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{\an1}tells me that this isn't good.
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{\an1}Now he's just looking at her
"Oh, I love you, I do.
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I love you."
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{\an1}He's going "Yeah, I love you,
I do.
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Oh, yeah."
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}Hunting for females
is tiring work.
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{\an1}This male is looking
for a hole to rest in.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}But not all the holes are empty.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}For a few weeks in the year,
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{\an1}hungry green fang spiders feast
on naive flower bee males,
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{\an1}helping to weed out the slow
and dim-witted.
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{\an1}A bigger threat to most bees
in my garden
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{\an1}comes not from spiders,
but other bees.
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{\an1}Like the sinister-looking
nomad bee...
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{\an1}...who is looking for
the underground nest
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of a mining bee
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by following her.
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{\an1}When the mining bee turns,
the nomad immediately
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{\an1}drops to the ground
as if playing dead.
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{\an1}When the mining bee thinks
the coast is clear,
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{\an1}she goes to her burrow.
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{\an1}The nomad is watching.
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{\an1}As the mining bee leaves,
the nomad bee sneaks in
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{\an1}to lay her egg in the nest...
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{\an1}...where her larvae will eat
the mining bee egg
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{\an1}and feast on her pollen store.
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{\an1}No wonder so many of these bees
hate being watched.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}As spring draws to a close,
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{\an1}I've already counted over
30 species of bee in the garden.
324
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{\an1}And the variety is...
Is actually quite mind-boggling.
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{\an1}From minute yellow-faced bees
to gigantic bumblebees.
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{\an1}From shiny sweat bees
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{\an1}to hairy carder bees.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}From the good old honey bees...
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{\an1}to these scissor bees.
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{\an1}No bigger than a mosquito.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}Filming this scale of bee
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{\an1}makes a difficult task
practically impossible.
335
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{\an1}They block their nests
with the tiniest grains of sand.
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{\an1}I'm focused on an area
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{\an1}that's about that big, you know,
if you can imagine.
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{\an1}Blinking would make
the camera shake.
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{\an1}You know, sometimes you can see
the heartbeat going like this
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{\an1}as I'm trying to film it.
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{\an1}Phew. It's a nightmare, mate.
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{\an1}There's a new bee out.
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{\an1}It's a wool carder bee.
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{\an1}The male is a monster
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and you can see
the female is half his size.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an8}♪♪♪
348
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This male owns
all of these flowers.
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{\an8}♪♪♪
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{\an1}He'll chase anything
that comes into this territory.
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{\an1}Bees like this bumblebee
are in trouble
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{\an1}if one of these guys is around.
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On his rear end, he's got some
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really quite
vicious-looking spikes
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which can inflict
serious damage to his enemies.
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{\an1}He's a bit like a lion
in the sense
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{\an1}that he mates with the females
whenever he can,
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{\an1}he attacks anything
that moves in his territory,
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{\an1}and in particular, when he meets
a male of his own species,
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there is trouble.
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{\an1}He meets the other male
and the two of them size
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each other up.
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{\an1}He tries to stab him
with his spikes.
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{\an1}The interloper is driven off.
365
00:24:00,566 --> 00:24:04,533
{\an1}The only welcome bee
in this territory is a female.
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The male mates
with the same female
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{\an1}three or four times in a row...
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{\an1}...before they seem to get
a sense
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{\an1}that they've both done this
370
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{\an1}and they don't need
to do it anymore.
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{\an1}It does appear as if the male
can actually recognize
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{\an1}which females he's mated with.
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{\an1}He just kind of flies up,
has a look, and then flies off.
374
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{\an1}So this is the garden
where it all takes place.
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{\an1}And this... this bit here
is particularly good
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{\an1}'cause it's a really hot corner,
377
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,733
{\an1}and this fence post here
is where the scissor bees live.
378
00:24:54,766 --> 00:24:57,266
{\an1}That's a particularly good place
to see them.
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{\an1}Well, the Waitrose house...
I bought that in Waitrose...
380
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{\an1}the male leaf cutters
and the male mason bees
381
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{\an1}love it for roosting at night,
382
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{\an1}so sometimes you can see them
all looking out,
383
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{\an1}like they're all tucked up
in bed
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{\an1}and they're just watching,
waiting for the weather
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to pick up.
386
00:25:13,933 --> 00:25:16,733
{\an1}So this is the flower bee
highway right through here,
387
00:25:16,766 --> 00:25:19,233
{\an1}and this is where the males
will search for females
388
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{\an1}and the females might be here,
feeding on the nectar here.
389
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{\an1}If a male comes along and he's,
like, slams on the brakes...
390
00:25:26,433 --> 00:25:27,766
{\an1}[imitates brakes squealing]...
391
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{\an1}then he will hover
and stare at her
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{\an1}in a really appreciative way.
393
00:25:36,033 --> 00:25:40,333
{\an1}I've never, ever seen successful
mating in this situation.
394
00:25:40,366 --> 00:25:43,666
{\an1}But I have seen them mate
on the ground.
395
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{\an1}On his route, he also has little
sunlit patches of leaves
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which the female
likes to sit on.
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{\an1}The female... there he is...
The female, she might just be
398
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{\an1}cleaning pollen off herself
or something like that
399
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{\an1}and then the male comes along,
same process,
400
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{\an1}he sees her, he's transfixed,
he's like, "Oh, my God."
401
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{\an1}It's like a little dance.
402
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,209
He has to kind
of hover round her
403
00:26:10,233 --> 00:26:12,200
{\an1}and then get closer and closer.
404
00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,266
He jumps on her
and he puts his...
405
00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:19,366
{\an1}puts some legs around her,
406
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,700
{\an1}and then basically...
Then he gets up
407
00:26:22,733 --> 00:26:26,233
and he has to...
He gets his hairy legs out
408
00:26:26,266 --> 00:26:28,000
{\an1}and he starts waving them
around,
409
00:26:28,033 --> 00:26:29,600
but in real time,
it's like about...
410
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You know,
it's much faster than that.
411
00:26:31,633 --> 00:26:34,900
{\an1}In slow motion, you can see
the tufts on his hairy legs.
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He is gently...
413
00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:39,566
{\an1}Three times he brushes them
on the female's antenna,
414
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,866
{\an1}then three times he brushes them
on the female's antenna.
415
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:50,900
{\an8}♪♪♪
416
00:26:51,833 --> 00:26:59,833
{\an8}♪♪♪
417
00:27:00,833 --> 00:27:04,500
{\an1}It took me a month to discover
what he actually does
418
00:27:04,533 --> 00:27:08,233
{\an1}with those hairy legs
during sex.
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00:27:08,266 --> 00:27:10,666
{\an1}All I knew at the start of that
420
00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:14,933
{\an1}was that the hairs
are associated with scent.
421
00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:17,433
{\an1}That's about as much
as anybody ever knew.
422
00:27:17,466 --> 00:27:22,033
{\an8}♪♪♪
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00:27:22,066 --> 00:27:24,933
{\an1}By the start of summer, we seem
to have survived
424
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the first wave of the pandemic,
425
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,900
{\an1}and us humans were finally
being able to leave home
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and re-enter
the streets of our city.
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00:27:33,733 --> 00:27:38,466
{\an8}♪♪♪
428
00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:40,533
{\an1}But I was in far too deep.
429
00:27:40,566 --> 00:27:45,633
{\an8}♪♪♪
430
00:27:45,666 --> 00:27:49,033
{\an1}There's a new wave of bees
on its way.
431
00:27:49,066 --> 00:27:53,666
{\an1}Here, the streets of Bee City
are starting to come alive.
432
00:27:55,333 --> 00:27:59,900
{\an1}Bee City is really just
some bits of old wood
433
00:27:59,933 --> 00:28:02,500
{\an1}sort of just along
the very back hedge,
434
00:28:02,533 --> 00:28:04,333
{\an1}just above the street.
435
00:28:04,366 --> 00:28:07,466
{\an1}I'd heard that if you drill
some holes in it, you know,
436
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,533
bees like that.
437
00:28:08,566 --> 00:28:11,433
{\an1}And I noticed bees
were using it.
438
00:28:11,466 --> 00:28:14,533
{\an1}There seems to be a kind
of shortage of a culmination,
439
00:28:14,566 --> 00:28:17,900
{\an1}so I built some more.
440
00:28:17,933 --> 00:28:21,633
{\an1}I thought I'd make
a more proper bee hotel.
441
00:28:21,666 --> 00:28:25,466
{\an8}♪♪♪
442
00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:26,900
{\an1}They're all interested in holes.
443
00:28:26,933 --> 00:28:27,800
{\an1}Holes are their thing.
444
00:28:27,833 --> 00:28:29,600
{\an1}They can't fly past
445
00:28:29,633 --> 00:28:31,833
{\an1}an interesting hole
without having a look.
446
00:28:31,866 --> 00:28:33,433
{\an1}They just love it.
447
00:28:33,466 --> 00:28:41,466
{\an8}♪♪♪
448
00:28:42,033 --> 00:28:45,433
{\an1}It's all about the holes.
449
00:28:45,466 --> 00:28:48,533
{\an1}This is where bees
create their homes.
450
00:28:48,566 --> 00:28:50,233
{\an1}That's what wild bees do.
451
00:28:50,266 --> 00:28:53,400
{\an1}They lay down a larder of pollen
and nectar
452
00:28:53,433 --> 00:28:55,166
{\an1}on which to lay their egg.
453
00:28:57,833 --> 00:29:01,366
{\an1}They make an internal wall,
seal off the cell,
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then repeat
until this tunnel is full.
455
00:29:04,133 --> 00:29:10,366
{\an8}♪♪♪
456
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:16,666
{\an8}♪♪♪
457
00:29:18,033 --> 00:29:21,800
{\an1}Yellow-faced bees are also
moving into Bee City.
458
00:29:21,833 --> 00:29:26,466
{\an1}They're tiny little things
about 5 millimeters long.
459
00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:28,933
{\an1}They're so small they're
pretty much invisible.
460
00:29:28,966 --> 00:29:31,166
{\an1}Most people just don't even know
they're there,
461
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,366
{\an1}and they just look like
tiny little black flies.
462
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,700
You wouldn't know
what's going on.
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00:29:37,733 --> 00:29:40,566
{\an1}These two have made their homes
in a side chamber
464
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,566
of a bigger hole
and they can join forces
465
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,333
to keep guard
against their arch-nemesis...
466
00:29:48,533 --> 00:29:51,400
{\an1}...the wasp gasteruption.
467
00:29:51,433 --> 00:29:56,633
{\an8}♪♪♪
468
00:29:56,666 --> 00:30:01,866
{\an8}♪♪♪
469
00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:06,433
Gasteruption,
well, gasteruption jaculator.
470
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:15,600
{\an1}It's an incredible gangly, weird
thing that hovers in such a way
471
00:30:15,633 --> 00:30:19,066
{\an1}so it just looks like an alien
with a jetpack
472
00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:21,300
{\an1}just kind of hovering around,
473
00:30:21,333 --> 00:30:22,509
{\an1}sort of looking for the poor old
474
00:30:22,533 --> 00:30:25,333
yellow-faced bee
to zap with its ray gun.
475
00:30:25,366 --> 00:30:32,000
{\an8}♪♪♪
476
00:30:32,033 --> 00:30:35,333
{\an1}It has an incredibly long
ovipositor
477
00:30:35,366 --> 00:30:37,633
{\an1}that it uses to lay its eggs
478
00:30:37,666 --> 00:30:40,400
in the nests
of yellow-faced bees.
479
00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:47,633
{\an1}Those antennae can detect
the scent of the host.
480
00:30:47,666 --> 00:30:54,200
{\an8}♪♪♪
481
00:30:54,233 --> 00:31:00,833
{\an8}♪♪♪
482
00:31:00,866 --> 00:31:05,000
{\an1}A yellow-face comes back,
sees an intruder, and attacks.
483
00:31:05,033 --> 00:31:09,900
{\an8}♪♪♪
484
00:31:09,933 --> 00:31:12,166
{\an1}They've won this small battle,
485
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,966
{\an1}but their problems
are far from over.
486
00:31:17,433 --> 00:31:23,466
{\an1}A huge wood-carving leafcutter
appeared in the old city.
487
00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:26,700
{\an1}It's one of the first
of this species I've ever seen.
488
00:31:26,733 --> 00:31:33,300
{\an8}♪♪♪
489
00:31:33,333 --> 00:31:36,966
She lands right
in the yellow-faced bee's hole.
490
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,766
{\an8}♪♪♪
491
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:48,566
{\an8}♪♪♪
492
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,133
{\an1}The yellow-face rears up
on its hind legs
493
00:31:51,166 --> 00:31:53,833
to try
and intimidate this giant.
494
00:31:53,866 --> 00:32:01,066
{\an8}♪♪♪
495
00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:08,233
{\an8}♪♪♪
496
00:32:08,266 --> 00:32:09,800
{\an1}The way it was now well
497
00:32:09,833 --> 00:32:12,800
and truly blocked
to the yellow-face's nest.
498
00:32:16,666 --> 00:32:18,033
{\an1}It's tough on the smaller bees,
499
00:32:18,066 --> 00:32:22,500
{\an1}but shows just how ruthless
these single mothers need to be.
500
00:32:22,533 --> 00:32:24,933
{\an1}The tunnel definitely now
belonged to her.
501
00:32:24,966 --> 00:32:31,400
{\an8}♪♪♪
502
00:32:31,433 --> 00:32:33,900
{\an1}I didn't know at the time,
but I would get to know
503
00:32:33,933 --> 00:32:37,500
this bee better
than any others in the garden.
504
00:32:37,533 --> 00:32:44,633
{\an8}♪♪♪
505
00:32:44,666 --> 00:32:47,800
{\an1}I called her Nicky because
she had a nick in her wing.
506
00:32:52,033 --> 00:32:54,666
But getting close
didn't come easy.
507
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,100
{\an1}I think it's really important
to know
508
00:33:01,133 --> 00:33:02,733
that the thing
that you are filming
509
00:33:02,766 --> 00:33:05,933
{\an1}is the thing that the animal
would normally be doing.
510
00:33:05,966 --> 00:33:07,633
{\an1}When the bee is relaxed,
it's doing
511
00:33:07,666 --> 00:33:09,366
{\an1}what it wants to do as opposed
512
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,200
{\an1}to what my presence
might be forcing it to do.
513
00:33:16,966 --> 00:33:18,700
I really wanted
to film leafcutters
514
00:33:18,733 --> 00:33:23,133
{\an1}because of their amazing
nest-building behavior.
515
00:33:23,166 --> 00:33:25,566
{\an1}But it is not as easy to film
as I thought.
516
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,133
{\an8}♪♪♪
517
00:33:29,166 --> 00:33:32,066
I honestly sat
by her first tunnel
518
00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:34,400
{\an1}for like, you know, two days.
519
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,800
{\an1}I knew that Nicky didn't want
anything to do with me
520
00:33:39,833 --> 00:33:41,966
because she had
absolutely avoided me
521
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,600
at all costs.
522
00:33:44,633 --> 00:33:45,800
{\an1}And I got really worried,
523
00:33:45,833 --> 00:33:48,933
so I backed off
to let her get on with her life.
524
00:33:48,966 --> 00:33:52,400
{\an8}♪♪♪
525
00:33:52,433 --> 00:33:55,433
{\an1}In Bee City, it was easy
to get distracted
526
00:33:55,466 --> 00:33:57,533
{\an1}by all kinds of drama.
527
00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:05,433
In the distance,
I could see the fly.
528
00:34:08,633 --> 00:34:13,000
{\an1}The jumping spider comes down
again and then he sneaks along,
529
00:34:13,033 --> 00:34:15,300
{\an1}and he comes up over again
and he looks around
530
00:34:15,333 --> 00:34:16,933
{\an1}and when they do their little
531
00:34:16,966 --> 00:34:19,533
{\an1}looking at the fly,
he just gets up there,
532
00:34:19,566 --> 00:34:21,433
{\an1}then a greenbottle lands
over to the left
533
00:34:21,466 --> 00:34:23,500
{\an1}and he has a look at that,
"No, that's not it."
534
00:34:23,533 --> 00:34:26,266
{\an1}Fly is doing the grooming,
you know, because a lot of work,
535
00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:28,309
{\an1}all that grooming, you know,
the back and the shoulders
536
00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:31,166
and the...
And doing the head and the eye.
537
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,600
{\an1}And he gets to a point, when
he's close enough,
538
00:34:34,633 --> 00:34:37,666
{\an1}I can see that he's put
his legs down, ready to jump.
539
00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:40,566
He jumps,
and then it's like, "yes,"
540
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,966
{\an1}and it all comes to a stop
exactly where it left off,
541
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,833
exactly in focus
542
00:34:46,866 --> 00:34:50,200
{\an1}because the spider had laid
a silk anchor right there.
543
00:34:52,666 --> 00:34:54,166
He's got the fly.
544
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,633
{\an1}It's a bad fly for bees.
545
00:34:55,666 --> 00:35:00,500
{\an1}It's one that lays eggs
in bee holes,
546
00:35:00,533 --> 00:35:05,033
{\an1}and so in this case, the spider
is a friend of the bees,
547
00:35:05,066 --> 00:35:06,700
not an enemy.
548
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,333
{\an1}While I was trying to persuade
some furrow bees
549
00:35:13,366 --> 00:35:15,766
to let me
film them at their nest,
550
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,900
I noticed that
Nicky had completed
551
00:35:17,933 --> 00:35:22,766
{\an1}that nest literally 3 meters
from me [Chuckles]
552
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,366
{\an1}without me noticing.
553
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,533
{\an1}Where I'd been waiting for
2 days
554
00:35:27,566 --> 00:35:31,233
{\an1}was now a green completed cell
555
00:35:31,266 --> 00:35:33,866
{\an1}that would have been
exactly the behavior
556
00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:37,266
{\an1}I was trying to film.
557
00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:40,100
Now, suddenly,
I had a new opportunity.
558
00:35:40,133 --> 00:35:44,200
{\an1}Nicky was moving to the new
builds to make another nest.
559
00:35:50,166 --> 00:35:54,666
{\an1}That was probably a month
after she first appeared.
560
00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:58,666
After that, she'd
pretty much accepted me.
561
00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:04,200
{\an1}There is a moment when she
looks me directly in the eye
562
00:36:04,233 --> 00:36:06,166
{\an1}but not showing fear.
563
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,466
{\an1}She just looks at the camera
and then she comes out a bit,
564
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:15,700
{\an1}she looks around, she looks
at all the other things,
565
00:36:15,733 --> 00:36:16,876
and she looks at
the camera again
566
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:18,300
{\an1}and goes, "Oh, yeah,
567
00:36:18,333 --> 00:36:21,900
{\an1}I think I'll be off
foraging now. Bye."
568
00:36:21,933 --> 00:36:23,566
And off she goes.
569
00:36:34,133 --> 00:36:38,033
{\an1}Finally, Nicky shows me
her leaf-cutting skills.
570
00:36:57,633 --> 00:37:01,033
{\an1}The reason they cut leaves
is to line the wooden tunnel,
571
00:37:01,066 --> 00:37:03,200
{\an1}making a bee-size cell
572
00:37:03,233 --> 00:37:06,066
{\an1}before smearing it
with nectar and other stuff.
573
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,500
Then they go off
to gather pollen to fill it.
574
00:37:18,166 --> 00:37:22,633
{\an1}Leafcutters use their
furry belly to gather pollen,
575
00:37:22,666 --> 00:37:24,400
{\an1}but they are far from cuddly.
576
00:37:24,433 --> 00:37:28,333
{\an8}♪♪♪
577
00:37:28,366 --> 00:37:29,666
{\an1}Unlike honey bees,
578
00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:34,066
{\an1}most of the wild bees
have a sting they can re-use.
579
00:37:34,100 --> 00:37:37,133
And when hassled,
they don't hesitate to use it.
580
00:37:37,166 --> 00:37:45,166
{\an8}♪♪♪
581
00:37:45,466 --> 00:37:50,066
{\an1}The feisty leafcutters also
have an armor-like exoskeleton.
582
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:54,766
{\an8}♪♪♪
583
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,200
{\an1}If this crab spider is to have
any chance of a kill,
584
00:37:58,233 --> 00:38:00,833
{\an1}it has to find the soft junction
between the head
585
00:38:00,866 --> 00:38:03,600
and the body
to deliver its venom.
586
00:38:03,633 --> 00:38:09,066
{\an8}♪♪♪
587
00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:14,500
{\an8}♪♪♪
588
00:38:14,533 --> 00:38:16,966
{\an1}A sting in the face
does the trick.
589
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,033
{\an8}♪♪♪
590
00:38:21,066 --> 00:38:25,600
{\an1}My relationship with Nicky
really seems to be growing.
591
00:38:25,633 --> 00:38:28,100
{\an1}I mean, you know, most people
would think that's stupid
592
00:38:28,133 --> 00:38:32,400
{\an1}that a bee and a man
could have a relationship,
593
00:38:32,433 --> 00:38:37,133
{\an1}but there's no doubt that we
were getting to know each other.
594
00:38:37,166 --> 00:38:38,800
{\an1}I can tell she's looking at me.
595
00:38:38,833 --> 00:38:42,066
{\an1}Does she know these are my eyes?
I don't know, I have no idea,
596
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:45,566
{\an1}but scientists have shown
that honey bees can recognize
597
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,500
{\an1}individual people,
so why wouldn't she?
598
00:38:48,533 --> 00:38:52,666
{\an8}♪♪♪
599
00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:56,400
{\an1}This really is a city of bees,
and with 10 species living here,
600
00:38:56,433 --> 00:38:59,733
{\an1}I suppose you'd say it was
a very multicultural place.
601
00:38:59,766 --> 00:39:04,533
{\an8}♪♪♪
602
00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:08,933
{\an1}Spending this much time
in the neighborhood means
603
00:39:08,966 --> 00:39:13,966
{\an1}I'm even on first-name terms
with a few of the residents.
604
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,233
{\an1}The naming just comes to you,
so Nicky...
605
00:39:16,266 --> 00:39:20,366
{\an1}I call her Nicky 'cause
she's got a nick in her wing.
606
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,800
{\an1}There's another one
who is missing
607
00:39:21,833 --> 00:39:26,700
{\an1}half of one of her antenna,
she's called One-tenna.
608
00:39:26,733 --> 00:39:27,966
{\an1}And there are two others,
609
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000
{\an1}one of them is called
The Neighbor
610
00:39:30,033 --> 00:39:32,866
because she lives
right next door to One-tenna,
611
00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:34,576
{\an1}and then there's another
one called The Late Comer
612
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,033
because she was
the last one to appear.
613
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,300
Alongside them,
there are two mason bees
614
00:39:44,333 --> 00:39:46,333
{\an1}which are much smaller.
615
00:39:46,366 --> 00:39:48,600
One of them lived
right next to Nicky.
616
00:39:48,633 --> 00:39:51,966
{\an1}I called her Leia,
derived from her Latin name,
617
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,100
osmia lignaria.
618
00:39:54,133 --> 00:39:56,900
{\an1}I could call her Princess Leia,
but I just call her Leia.
619
00:39:56,933 --> 00:39:59,300
{\an1}If she's a princess, she has
a very small kingdom,
620
00:39:59,333 --> 00:40:01,633
{\an1}which is basically 3 tunnels
621
00:40:01,666 --> 00:40:04,800
full of babies
that she's made this year.
622
00:40:04,833 --> 00:40:08,466
{\an8}♪♪♪
623
00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:11,566
{\an1}Throughout Bee City,
everyone is hard at work
624
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,333
{\an1}finishing their tunnels.
625
00:40:13,366 --> 00:40:16,400
{\an8}♪♪♪
626
00:40:16,433 --> 00:40:19,633
{\an1}The mason bees like Leia here
also cut leaves for their nests,
627
00:40:19,666 --> 00:40:22,400
{\an1}but chew it in to pulp
to seal the hole.
628
00:40:22,433 --> 00:40:30,433
{\an8}♪♪♪
629
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,833
{\an1}These red mason bees use mud
to seal up their nest.
630
00:40:33,866 --> 00:40:40,966
{\an8}♪♪♪
631
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:48,133
{\an8}♪♪♪
632
00:40:48,166 --> 00:40:51,833
{\an1}Leafcutters bring back perfect
pieces of circular leaf,
633
00:40:51,866 --> 00:40:55,766
{\an1}cut to fit their tunnel exactly.
634
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,966
{\an1}When closing a hole, Nicky will
put literally 40 layers of leaf
635
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,966
{\an1}in there all stacked up
636
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,633
{\an1}to foil her archenemy,
the sharp-tailed bee.
637
00:41:07,666 --> 00:41:10,933
{\an1}The sharp-tail is a cuckoo bee,
638
00:41:10,966 --> 00:41:16,266
{\an1}and it specializes in
parasitizing leafcutter nests.
639
00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:18,600
The sharp tails
are a constant threat.
640
00:41:18,633 --> 00:41:24,366
{\an8}♪♪♪
641
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:30,133
{\an8}♪♪♪
642
00:41:30,166 --> 00:41:33,900
{\an1}I think in Nicky's mind,
maybe 40 layers of protection
643
00:41:33,933 --> 00:41:36,000
{\an1}aren't even enough.
644
00:41:36,033 --> 00:41:39,633
{\an1}She starts going off
and looking in other tunnels
645
00:41:39,666 --> 00:41:41,066
{\an1}or underneath the blocks.
646
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:43,009
{\an1}I thought maybe she's looking
for some little bits of rock
647
00:41:43,033 --> 00:41:44,433
or something.
648
00:41:44,466 --> 00:41:47,566
{\an1}She comes back with a stick,
it's like 2 inches long,
649
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,242
{\an1}and she's flying through the air
with this stick.
650
00:41:49,266 --> 00:41:52,400
{\an1}I mean, what is she doing
with that?
651
00:41:52,433 --> 00:41:55,433
{\an1}How does the stick
compute for her?
652
00:41:55,466 --> 00:41:58,700
{\an1}She's experimenting,
thinking it through.
653
00:41:58,733 --> 00:42:02,833
{\an1}Clearly something's going on
in her mind here.
654
00:42:02,866 --> 00:42:06,433
{\an1}Remember, this is a bee.
655
00:42:06,466 --> 00:42:10,200
{\an1}A moment like that reveals
far more than preconceived ideas
656
00:42:10,233 --> 00:42:12,233
{\an1}about what a leafcutter does.
657
00:42:12,266 --> 00:42:15,966
{\an8}♪♪♪
658
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,466
But not as odd
as I first thought.
659
00:42:21,666 --> 00:42:23,566
This construction of grass stems
660
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,000
{\an1}takes bee architecture
to new heights.
661
00:42:27,033 --> 00:42:33,900
{\an8}♪♪♪
662
00:42:33,933 --> 00:42:38,166
{\an1}The red-tailed mason bee,
nicknamed the tent-making bee,
663
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,866
has solved
the problem of cuckoo bees
664
00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:41,700
{\an1}breaking into her nursery.
665
00:42:41,733 --> 00:42:49,733
{\an8}♪♪♪
666
00:42:50,233 --> 00:42:58,233
{\an8}♪♪♪
667
00:42:58,733 --> 00:43:01,433
{\an1}After carefully picking
a snail shell,
668
00:43:01,466 --> 00:43:04,933
she fills it
with both leaf pulp and mud.
669
00:43:04,966 --> 00:43:12,966
{\an8}♪♪♪
670
00:43:14,566 --> 00:43:22,566
{\an8}♪♪♪
671
00:43:24,133 --> 00:43:30,000
{\an1}Like Nicky, every stage of
the process involves decisions.
672
00:43:30,033 --> 00:43:32,700
{\an1}She spends a long time
to position the shell
673
00:43:32,733 --> 00:43:35,466
{\an1}into just the right angle
on the ground.
674
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:43,500
{\an8}♪♪♪
675
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:51,700
{\an8}♪♪♪
676
00:43:51,866 --> 00:43:59,866
{\an8}♪♪♪
677
00:44:00,066 --> 00:44:04,400
{\an1}Even digging it into the soil
to hold that position.
678
00:44:04,433 --> 00:44:08,733
{\an8}♪♪♪
679
00:44:08,766 --> 00:44:11,900
{\an1}But that's just the beginning.
680
00:44:11,933 --> 00:44:14,700
{\an1}Next comes a huge undertaking.
681
00:44:14,733 --> 00:44:21,900
{\an8}♪♪♪
682
00:44:21,933 --> 00:44:23,700
{\an1}She gathers hundreds of bits
683
00:44:23,733 --> 00:44:26,233
of carefully
chosen sticks of grass.
684
00:44:26,266 --> 00:44:31,866
{\an8}♪♪♪
685
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:34,566
{\an1}To drive the stems
into the structure,
686
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,333
{\an1}she vibrates her wing muscles,
687
00:44:38,366 --> 00:44:40,633
which is why
the whole thing hangs together.
688
00:44:40,666 --> 00:44:48,066
{\an8}♪♪♪
689
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:50,400
{\an1}Over three hours, she assembles
a huge structure
690
00:44:50,433 --> 00:44:52,866
{\an1}more than 20 times her height.
691
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:58,800
{\an8}♪♪♪
692
00:44:58,833 --> 00:45:04,800
{\an8}♪♪♪
693
00:45:04,833 --> 00:45:07,300
Nothing can get
into this fortress.
694
00:45:07,333 --> 00:45:14,333
{\an8}♪♪♪
695
00:45:14,366 --> 00:45:17,100
Back at Bee City,
696
00:45:17,133 --> 00:45:21,066
{\an1}Nicky is getting to the end
of her tenure.
697
00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:23,666
{\an1}She's looking a bit ragged now,
698
00:45:23,700 --> 00:45:26,200
{\an1}but she's still working hard
on her tunnels.
699
00:45:29,166 --> 00:45:32,800
{\an1}Inside, I could see how neatly
she's placed the pollen,
700
00:45:32,833 --> 00:45:36,200
{\an1}and this was white thistle
pollen.
701
00:45:36,233 --> 00:45:38,300
There were
no thistles in my garden.
702
00:45:38,333 --> 00:45:41,000
{\an1}Where was this thistle pollen
coming from?
703
00:45:44,133 --> 00:45:48,600
{\an1}I watched Nicky when she left,
and I watched the direction
704
00:45:48,633 --> 00:45:50,366
she went in.
705
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,000
{\an1}She just kept going up
in a north westerly direction.
706
00:45:56,700 --> 00:45:59,200
{\an1}So then I looked on a map,
and I looked at the places
707
00:45:59,233 --> 00:46:02,533
{\an1}that, in that line, that could
possibly have those thistles,
708
00:46:02,566 --> 00:46:05,433
and I got to
a place called Redling Green
709
00:46:05,466 --> 00:46:10,333
where there were thistles there.
710
00:46:10,366 --> 00:46:14,066
{\an1}When I looked, there was a bee
pretty much identical to Nicky,
711
00:46:14,100 --> 00:46:16,166
{\an1}I was absolutely sure
that was Nicky.
712
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,800
{\an1}[ Slow-motion buzzing ]
713
00:46:21,866 --> 00:46:24,300
{\an1}When she flies out of her hole,
714
00:46:24,333 --> 00:46:28,033
{\an1}she has a mental map
of the city.
715
00:46:28,066 --> 00:46:32,233
{\an1}She goes to a place
she has previsualized.
716
00:46:32,266 --> 00:46:34,500
{\an1}She is going to go to
that destination
717
00:46:34,533 --> 00:46:37,500
{\an1}and do the thing that
she has planned to do.
718
00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:44,366
{\an1}She has a complex world
to deal with,
719
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,200
{\an1}has to deal with mating
courtship, finding a home,
720
00:46:47,233 --> 00:46:50,500
{\an1}she has to forage,
go great distances.
721
00:46:50,533 --> 00:46:51,933
{\an1}She has to do this
all on her own.
722
00:46:51,966 --> 00:46:53,433
{\an1}She can't just ask her
mates, "Yeah,
723
00:46:53,466 --> 00:46:56,366
{\an1}yeah, seen any good flowers
recently, mate?"
724
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,000
And that I find
is the remarkable thing.
725
00:46:59,033 --> 00:47:02,266
{\an1}[ Birds chirping ]
726
00:47:02,300 --> 00:47:04,566
[ Buzzing ]
727
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,933
{\an1}The more I became absorbed
in their lives,
728
00:47:06,966 --> 00:47:08,733
the more
I was seeing differences
729
00:47:08,766 --> 00:47:11,466
{\an1}in how individuals
react to each other.
730
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:20,533
{\an1}One-tenna is particularly
aggressive to everyone.
731
00:47:20,566 --> 00:47:24,066
{\an1}She always seems to be arguing
with her mason bee neighbor.
732
00:47:24,100 --> 00:47:27,400
{\an1}They seem to have a tit-for-tat
fighting thing going on.
733
00:47:30,133 --> 00:47:32,466
{\an1}Nicky and her neighbor Leia
just get along fine.
734
00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:34,100
They never argue.
735
00:47:34,133 --> 00:47:38,600
{\an1}One-tenna... possibly because
the antenna are linked to memory
736
00:47:38,633 --> 00:47:40,966
{\an1}through scent... came back,
737
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,533
but instead of
going to her hole,
738
00:47:42,566 --> 00:47:44,666
{\an1}she went to the neighbor's hole.
739
00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:48,233
She's got the
neighbor's jaws in her jaws.
740
00:47:48,266 --> 00:47:50,933
{\an1}She's trying to pull
the neighbor out of her hole.
741
00:47:52,933 --> 00:47:54,800
{\an1}This fight went on and on and
on,
742
00:47:54,833 --> 00:47:56,300
{\an1}and I mean I was really worried.
743
00:47:56,333 --> 00:47:57,533
{\an1}I didn't know what to do.
744
00:47:57,566 --> 00:48:00,733
I thought,
"Well, should I break it up?"
745
00:48:00,766 --> 00:48:03,600
{\an1}You can't just interfere
with things like that.
746
00:48:03,633 --> 00:48:06,633
{\an1}It's never that simple.
747
00:48:06,666 --> 00:48:09,166
But I really did
want it to stop.
748
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,166
{\an1}These bees were clearly using
huge amounts of energy.
749
00:48:15,466 --> 00:48:20,900
{\an1}That story tells me that these
bees, they're not all identical.
750
00:48:20,933 --> 00:48:23,333
{\an1}[ Slow-motion buzzing ]
751
00:48:23,366 --> 00:48:26,033
{\an1}All of them behave differently.
752
00:48:26,066 --> 00:48:28,833
{\an1}They must have some serious
brain power.
753
00:48:28,866 --> 00:48:30,542
{\an1}People would say, "Oh, yeah,
it's just instinct."
754
00:48:30,566 --> 00:48:32,566
{\an1}Well, yeah, but how does
the instinct work?
755
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:33,966
{\an1}"Well, it's an algorithm, mate."
756
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:39,200
{\an1}It's like, well, how is
that different to what we do?
757
00:48:39,233 --> 00:48:42,366
{\an1}It's really hard to explain,
but I really feel for them.
758
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,200
They're really...
I could say they're my friends,
759
00:48:45,233 --> 00:48:49,333
but I mean,
they don't really give me much.
760
00:48:49,366 --> 00:48:52,433
{\an1}Every now and again, one bee
761
00:48:52,466 --> 00:48:54,433
or other might
actually land on the camera
762
00:48:54,466 --> 00:48:56,533
and that,
I do feel touched by that.
763
00:48:56,566 --> 00:49:03,833
{\an8}♪♪♪
764
00:49:03,866 --> 00:49:08,166
{\an1}I felt I knew Nicky
pretty well by now,
765
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,400
{\an1}but I wasn't ready for
what she let me see next.
766
00:49:11,433 --> 00:49:14,000
{\an8}♪♪♪
767
00:49:14,033 --> 00:49:16,366
{\an1}She was well on the way
to filling another tunnel
768
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,000
{\an1}for the next generation.
769
00:49:19,033 --> 00:49:22,200
{\an1}She then does this extraordinary
thing.
770
00:49:22,233 --> 00:49:24,233
{\an1}She turns round in the tunnel,
771
00:49:24,266 --> 00:49:25,442
something
I've never seen her do,
772
00:49:25,466 --> 00:49:30,300
{\an1}so she has to form a ball
with her body.
773
00:49:30,333 --> 00:49:34,766
{\an1}Like a kind of gymnast doing
some kind of strange move.
774
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:39,000
{\an1}And then when I pull focus in
to the hole, I could see an egg,
775
00:49:39,033 --> 00:49:40,466
a great big egg.
776
00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:43,233
{\an1}It's huge. I mean, it's like
three or four millimeters long.
777
00:49:43,266 --> 00:49:48,566
{\an8}♪♪♪
778
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,966
{\an1}I honestly never expected
to be able to see an egg
779
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,333
{\an1}from the outside in that way.
780
00:49:54,366 --> 00:49:57,733
{\an1}What a privilege to be there
at that moment.
781
00:49:57,766 --> 00:50:00,133
{\an1}[ Slow-motion buzzing ]
782
00:50:00,166 --> 00:50:02,166
{\an8}♪♪♪
783
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,600
{\an1}I have been sitting here
for a couple of months.
784
00:50:04,633 --> 00:50:05,966
{\an1}It feels like a lifetime,
785
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,733
{\an1}but of course it's not for me,
but it is for a bee.
786
00:50:08,766 --> 00:50:13,033
{\an1}Ridings: ♪ You left my love,
you hit the target ♪
787
00:50:13,066 --> 00:50:15,566
{\an1}Dohrn: I've seen Nicky make
three complete tunnels,
788
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,966
{\an1}each with at least
six cells inside.
789
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,566
And now she's on
her fourth tunnel.
790
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,166
{\an1}Ridings: ♪ I never noticed ♪
791
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,366
{\an8}♪♪♪
792
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:27,866
Dohrn:
But it wasn't just me taking
793
00:50:27,900 --> 00:50:30,200
{\an1}an interest in Nicky's new egg.
794
00:50:30,233 --> 00:50:32,100
{\an8}♪♪♪
795
00:50:32,133 --> 00:50:34,833
{\an1}Nicky was by this time
very tired
796
00:50:34,866 --> 00:50:37,800
{\an1}and she was just sitting
on a brick, just a foot away.
797
00:50:37,833 --> 00:50:41,333
{\an8}♪♪♪
798
00:50:41,366 --> 00:50:43,633
Ridings:
♪ And I hate that you're gone ♪
799
00:50:43,666 --> 00:50:48,933
♪ And I hate
that I don't wanna let go ♪
800
00:50:48,966 --> 00:50:51,833
{\an1}Dohrn: As the sharp tail bee
went in, I was willing her,
801
00:50:51,866 --> 00:50:55,533
{\an1}"Nicky, Nicky, come up,
get in your hole."
802
00:50:55,566 --> 00:50:59,466
{\an1}But, um, she didn't.
803
00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:02,100
{\an1}You can tell if a sharp tail
bee's been successful
804
00:51:02,133 --> 00:51:04,409
{\an1}'cause she'll come out with some
pollen stuck to her tail.
805
00:51:04,433 --> 00:51:06,466
{\an1}[ Slow-motion buzzing ]
806
00:51:06,500 --> 00:51:12,233
{\an8}♪♪♪
807
00:51:12,266 --> 00:51:14,566
Nicky went in.
808
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,066
{\an1}It's possible she went in, saw
that it had been parasitized,
809
00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:20,066
and thought,
"Ah, what the hell."
810
00:51:20,100 --> 00:51:22,666
{\an1}She'd had a very successful
nest-building life,
811
00:51:22,700 --> 00:51:25,833
so I didn't worry
about her legacy.
812
00:51:25,866 --> 00:51:27,533
{\an1}She'd had a good legacy.
813
00:51:27,566 --> 00:51:29,500
{\an1}And that actually was
pretty much the last time
814
00:51:29,533 --> 00:51:30,600
I saw her.
815
00:51:30,633 --> 00:51:34,466
Ridings:
♪ I'm gonna build castles ♪
816
00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:36,900
{\an1}♪ From the rubble of your love ♪
817
00:51:36,933 --> 00:51:38,966
{\an1}♪ From the rubble of your love ♪
818
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,533
{\an1}♪ I'm gonna be more than ♪
819
00:51:42,566 --> 00:51:44,166
{\an1}Dohrn: After she left,
820
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,100
{\an1}I actually noticed
that I missed her.
821
00:51:47,133 --> 00:51:49,700
Ridings: ♪ Oh ♪
822
00:51:49,733 --> 00:51:51,666
♪ Castles ♪
823
00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:54,033
{\an1}♪ From the rubble of your love ♪
824
00:51:54,066 --> 00:51:57,300
{\an1}Dohrn: I had no idea that I was
going to get so involved,
825
00:51:57,333 --> 00:52:01,133
{\an1}if that's the word,
with an individual insect.
826
00:52:01,166 --> 00:52:02,342
Ridings:
♪ You ever thought I was ♪
827
00:52:02,366 --> 00:52:04,166
{\an1}♪ You ever thought I was ♪
828
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,800
{\an1}Dohrn: It's changed my view
of insects altogether.
829
00:52:06,833 --> 00:52:09,100
{\an1}Ridings: ♪ Castles ♪
830
00:52:09,133 --> 00:52:12,500
{\an1}Dohrn: It's changed my view
of the world altogether.
831
00:52:12,533 --> 00:52:20,533
{\an1}Ridings: ♪ I'm gonna be stronger
than you ever thought I was ♪
832
00:52:22,066 --> 00:52:23,800
{\an1}[ Birds chirping ]
833
00:52:33,500 --> 00:52:41,500
{\an8}♪♪♪
834
00:52:41,533 --> 00:52:49,533
{\an8}♪♪♪
835
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:57,600
{\an8}♪♪♪
836
00:52:57,666 --> 00:52:59,566
{\an7}To learn more about what
you've seen
837
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,100
{\an8}on this "Nature" program,
838
00:53:01,133 --> 00:53:03,233
{\an8}visit pbs.org.
839
00:53:03,266 --> 00:53:11,266
{\an8}♪♪♪