Keywords and topics that are found in this program: bees, beehive, bee dance, senses,
communication, pheromone,
environment, learning, Flight of the Bumblebee, piano. Ask-a-Biologist web page
profile on Brian
Smith.
| Topic |
Time |
| Introduction - |
00:00 |
| What is the piece composed by Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov that was
inspired by bees? Start guessing, we will play it later in the program. |
01:14 |
| What got you started in the bee movie business? |
01:39 |
| High speed-motion movie |
|
| How fast do bees move their wings per second? |
|
| There is a new movie coming out - called Bee Movie. |
03:11 |
| Artistic license. |
03:38 |
| Not always learning about the biology of bees from the movie. |
03:50 |
| Bee biology corrections |
04:24 |
| Boy bees, fathers, and just who has a stinger. |
|
| Plot of Bee Movie - do bees have a legal case against humans? |
05:46 |
| How much work goes into making a pound of honey? |
|
| Modern Bees and Humans. (domestic animals) |
07:00 |
| What do bees get in exchange for their honey from
humans? |
07:20 |
| A business deal. |
09:32 |
| How to attract a few thousand bee friends, or a blanket of bees. |
10:14 |
| How do you make a queen bee? |
11:48 |
| Pheromones |
|
| Journey inside a beehive (including the hum of the hive) |
14:06 |
| Description of honeybee comb. |
14:42 |
| Hexagon |
|
| Do bees fly or walk in the hive? |
15:15 |
| How do bees know where they are in the hive? |
15:43 |
| It's crowded in the hive. |
16:30 |
| How do bees communicate with each other? |
|
| What do feeding and eating have to do with bee vomit?
[Tropholaxis] |
16:53 |
| The bee dance. |
17:35 |
| How bees give directions. |
|
| How do bees let other bees know the quality of the nectar they have
found? |
20:06 |
| Dance language |
20:34 |
| Bee colonies are like little cities with lots of jobs. |
21:04 |
| Guard bees, Nurse bees, Wax/comb bees, Forager bees,
Undertaker bees |
|
| Bees have more than one job in their lifetime. How long do bees
live? |
23:47 |
| How long do bees live? [exit the honeybee hive] |
|
| How long have you been a bee movie maker? |
24:40 |
| Can bees learn? |
25:01 |
| How many neurons are in a bee and human brain? |
25:51 |
| collective colony brain |
|
| Training bees |
27:41 |
| Communicating with bees |
|
| Bee sense of smell very similar to human sense of smell. |
28:25 |
| Pavlovian bee? |
29:00 |
| Asking bees a question. |
|
| Return to the beehive and listen to piano piece by
Rimsky-Korsakov/Rachmaninoff - Flight of the Bumblebee |
31:36 |
| When did you know you wanted to be a biologist? |
33:38 |
| Jacque Cousteau - Carl Segan |
|
| What would you do or be if you could not be a biologist? |
36:53 |
| You participate in an extreme sport. [skydiving] |
38:32 |
| What advice do you have for someone wanting to be a biologist? |
42:11 |
| Credits |
42:52 |
