Dennis vanEngelsdorp Bee. Okay, thanks.

I got a bee sting.

It's a Blue cheeked Bee eater.

It's a bee that, yes, flies.

Bee stings can be very painful.

But what beekeepers can do is, if they have one surviving colony, they can split that colony in two.

We know that what's going on between the bee and that flower is that bee has been cleverly manipulated by that flower.

The bee is not calling the shots.

And yet, mysteriously, somehow the bee flies.

You are always as busy as a bee.

This is what Honey Bee Network is about.

Bee keeping is quite widespread there as well.

This is a three year old colony.

So, things happen to an ant colony.

Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.

Kenya used to be a British colony.

And here you have the hive. You can see the queen bee, that large bee in the middle there. Those are all her daughters, the eggs.

So, the ants in the older colony that seem to be more stable are not any older than the ants in the younger colony.

It's about a meter tall Pavona clavus colony.

At one time Nigeria was a British colony.

And I know how colony size changes as a function of colony age because I've dug up colonies of known age and counted all the ants.

And it would change as the colony gets larger.

Some say that China was like a Russian colony.

And we do this in what we call the Bee Matrix.

Bee eaters eat bees. This one has a nice blue cheek.

So the Spelling Spider is a cousin of the spelling bee.

We had the spelling bee in conjunction with the Gwomeus Club.

But when did a bee actually ever give you an invoice?

It feels like I've landed in a colony of angels.

And then you have another type of bee, which we call kleptoparasites, which is a very fancy way of saying, bad minded, murdering what's the word I'm looking for? Murdering Audience Bee?

And then this is how colony size and numbers of worker ants changes so this is about 10,000 worker ants changes as a function of colony age, in years.

So this is the kind of rule that, as the colony develops and gets older and larger, will produce different behavior in an old colony and a small young one.

This process changes with colony age, and it changes like this.

I started with the 1607 Massachusetts Bay Colony Pequot Indian Wars.

Makes it a lot easier to put a colony up there.

Puerto Rico was no more a colony than Alaska and Hawaii.

A century later, Puerto Rico was still a United States colony.

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

So this is the colony founded by a queen the previous summer.

And here you see me enjoying a meal with caterpillars, locusts, bee pupae delicacies.

So Honey Bee Network builds upon the resource in which poor people are rich.

And so this opens up the whole idea of looking at colony health.

This is the nest of the mature colony, and there's the nest entrance.

So I want to tell you about the life cycle of a colony.

So this is a one year old colony this happens to be 536.