SciShow | What Would Happen if Honeybees Went Extinct?

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Episode Title: What Would Happen if Honeybees Went Extinct?
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Description: Check out American Spring Live on PBS (http://pbs.org/americanspringlive) and Facebook (http://facebook.com/pbsnature) to celebrate the start of spring. You’ve probably heard about how the extinction of honeybees will lead to some sort of bee-pocalypse doomsday scenario for humanity. But what would actually happen if all the honeybees went extinct? Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/09/09/einstein-and-the-bees-should-you-worry/#3d2d853c8157 https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/119780/files/An%20Economic%20Valuation%20of%20Pollination%20Services%20in%20Georgia.pdf https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061025165904.htm https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/08/12/pollinator-myth-bees-responsible-one-third-global-food-heightening-crisis-like-7/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2006.3721 https://plants.usda.gov/pollinators/Native_Pollinators.pdf http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150615-the-truth-about-bees https://entomologytoday.org/2014/08/25/study-finds-honey-bees-originated-from-asia-not-africa/ https://ento.psu.edu/publications/van-mex-2010 https://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/honey-bees-a-history/?mtrref=search.yahoo.com&gwh=9C927781BD358FDB4BF82C932FD7CFA7&gwt=pay https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/27/581007165/honeybees-help-farmers-but-they-dont-help-the-environment https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/other-bee-species-subbing-for-honeybees/ http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/06/leap-faith-proves-pollination-can-be-honeybee-free https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/53896 http://www.nationalacademies.org/OCGA/110Session1/testimonies/OCGA_149992 http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/10/native-bees-are-better-pollinators-honeybees ttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/020613075535.htm https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/UHMG/downloads/Bee_and_Pollinator_Pollination.pdf https://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/2012/357250/ https://fruit.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2011/05/Bumblebees-as-Pollinators-and-Management-Option.pdf https://academic.oup.com/jee/article/111/1/16/4760481 https://news.wisc.edu/as-honeybee-colonies-collapse-can-native-bees-handle-pollination-2/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/08/03/honeybees-pollinator-really-going-extinct/#.XIqyMChKiM8 http://cues.cfans.umn.edu/old/pollinators/pdf-BBcolony/2006nonativebee.pdf https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/diversity-bees-good-environmentand-farmers-wallets-180951339/ https://www.wired.com/2010/12/flowers-spread-bee-viruses/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278411186_Honeybee_pollination_of_exotic_weeds_a_key_threatening_process https://www.sare.org/content/download/29728/413964/How_to_Manage_the_Blue_Orchard_Bee.pdf?inlinedownload=1 https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/alkali_bee.shtml Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osmia_lignaria,_M,_Face,_VA,_Virginia_Beach_City_2014-04-13-15.42.51_ZS_PMax_(14125603737).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3-Sancassania_boharti_on_Nomia_melanderi_BMOC_96-0916-059.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lone_Pollinator.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfalfa_Leafcutter_Bee_-_Megachile_rotundata%3F,_Meadowood_Farm_SRMA,_Mason_Neck,_Virginia.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bumblebee_on_Lavender_Blossom.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apis_mellifera_-_Honeybee_02.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osmia_lignaria_P1380192a.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/bee-gm1043506548-279316258 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/aged-style-world-map-paper-texture-background-gm175482512-20937802


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