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Jimmy and the Wild Honey Hunters
Amazing what people go through in other parts of the world to get hold of some wild honey.
Now we know who invented the Mexican Wave !
18-May-2013

18-Jan-2012

Many thanks to Hannah Offen for making us aware of this link to a vibrant and well presented website in the USA where you can, among other things, order the DVD called "Queen of the Sun" - What are the bees telling us?
more on: http://www.queenofthesun.com/
We have acquired a copy of the DVD and have watched it - it is a delight to watch, very interesting - an eye opener - highly recommendable for all bee lovers.

Australian Documentaries

Australian Documentaries	Description and comments
Backyard Bees - ABC Behind the News	Behind the News, 3-Aug-2010 - Backyard Bees When you think of bee keepers you might think of farmers out in the country with funny hats but did you know that there are bee keepers in the city too? You might be living near a hive and beside making delicious honey those bees will be helping plants to grow.
Honeybee Blues - Screen Australia	SBS documentary, 1-Dec-2009 - on the effect of the varroa mite on honeybees. Join the discussion on SBS Blog
Brainy Bees - ABC Catalyst	ABC catalyst documentary, 30-Apr-2009 - training bees to recognise human faces. Getting a computer to see and recognise an individual face is actually very difficult. It just may be we can learn more about the science of seeing by studying bees.
Native Bees - ABC creature features	Native Bees, 16-Jul-2007 - Everyone knows honey comes from honey bees and that they live in big hives and sting you if you get too close right? But did you know that Australia actually has over 1500 species of native bees, some of them stingless bees?

Other Documentaries

Animal Camera - BBC Earth

Watch the flight of a bumble bee - Animal Camera - BBC - Watch this amazing video on YouTube to learn more about the behaviour of the bumble bee, including its long flights at high speed and its ability to fly in straight lines - Bee Lines! Great video from BBC wildlife show Animal Camera, hosted by Steve Leonard.

Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos and watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Earth YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcearth

USA - Georgia Tech College of Computing (Documentary on YouTube)

The Waggle Dance of the Honeybee
New research suggests that honeybees actually measure distances by the amount of optical information encountered during a flight. The energy model presented in this video derives from earlier work by Karl von Frisch, but now seems to be refuted by the optical flow model.

UK - BBC Nature Wildlife

Hail Caesar!
Brought to the UK by the Romans, bees now play a vital role in our ecosystem, particularly in food production. If the calculation purported to have been made by Einstein is right, that if bees were to die out, humans would follow about five years after, the current honey bee decline should be a sure cause for concern.