How Bees Can See the Invisible
Bees see the world in some very interesting ways Click here to SUBSCRIBE, it's FREE! -- http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓ More below ↓ To begin this video, we launched a little confetti to celebrate...
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{music} Welcome to It's Okay To Be Smart, I'm DOCTOR Joe Hanson [cheering and music]. For bees and flower blossoms, springtime is all about two things: feeding and fertilizing. See the flowers want to pass their genes on to the next generation, and the bees need to eat so they can do the same. So they use a little teamwork. But how do bees find flowers? And how do flowers find bees? What does a bee see when they see one of these? For millions of years plants have evolved to depend on insects and other pollinators to carry their genes on to the next generation. A flower is like a big neon sign they use to say "land here!" In return for getting a helping hand in making baby plants, most flowers offer up a tasty treat in the form of nect...
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{music} Welcome to It's Okay To Be Smart, I'm DOCTOR Joe Hanson [cheering and music]. For bees and flower blossoms, springtime is all about two things: feeding and fertilizing. See the flowers want to pass their genes on to the next generation, and the bees need to eat so they can do the same. So they use a little teamwork. But how do bees find flowers? And how do flowers find bees? What does a bee see when they see one of these? For millions of years plants have evolved to depend on insects and other pollinators to carry their genes on to the next generation. A flower is like a big neon sign they use to say "land here!" In return for getting a helping hand in making baby plants, most flowers offer up a tasty treat in the form of nect...
