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♪ america is steadily losing some of its busiest and most productive laborers with potentially dire consequences for you and me. in order to understand this issue, i first need to understand the bees themselves. so my first stop is the hudson valley bee supply. hey, how are you? >> hey, how are you? >> i'm morgan. >> hi, i'm megan. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. >> this is a great job. i love it. >> are you a beekeeper? >> no. >> are you interested?
The idea of hunting is an old school one. because what we really want to do is get the genetics into our beehives. we breed bees and those are important genetics to get from the wild. i'm going to show you how you find wild bees. i'm going to show you the technique. >> hudson valley bee supply is very involved with breeding bees to grow a healthy population. they discovered some wild bees are more resistant to parasites and disease. and by introducing their genes, the colonies become more robust. >> this is what the equipment you'll lead. this is a beelining box. this is the one i like. you're...
These are the most bees i've ever seen in my life. it's distracting and borderline disturbing. >> if you want us to, we could have a lot more exciting. >> i don't know if i want it to be that much more exciting. this is a very different experience than working in hudson valley bee supply. instead of carefully dealing with one colony at a time, we have to deal with hundreds of them at once. take the lid and put it over on it? >> yep. six total stacks of this. >> like that on top? it's all right? >> yep. oh, that's heavy. there's a lot of honey in that one. in just a short while working with geo...