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| [Music] | A colony of honey bees crawl inside a honey comb. Among pictures of avocados, almonds, blueberries, cherries, grapes and apples, text reads, Bee Appetit, A taste of the future for honey bees. A honey bee feeds on the nectar of a white flower. |
| Honeybees are crucial in pollinating many foods people love. However, a variety of issues have reduced access to many sources of pollen, making colonies more susceptible to poor nutrition. | Bees feed on the stamen of a sunflower. A man wears a grey shirt with the logo, wild bee program. Text reads, Brandon Hopkins. Associate Professor, Washington State University. |
| Honeybees are generalists, and they need a variety of flowers to meet their nutritional needs. | Wearing a net over his baseball cap, Brandon examines a hive frame covered with bees. |
| So poor nutrition is really at the base level of issues related to colony collapse or colony losses really worldwide. | He places the frame carefully back into the hive with his bare hands. Viewed from above, three people attend to hives. |
| Researchers at Washington State University are buzzing about a new, complete bee food. | A hand places a flat white rectangular slab under the lid of the beehive. |
| It was produced by APIX Biosciences, a company who partnered with WSU and tested in collaboration with commercial beekeepers to study the food's impact on honeybees. | Bees crawl around a honey comb. A person wearing a beekeeper suit and gloves examines the bees on a hive frame. In a room filled with beehives, a beekeeper points a metal hose into one of the bee hives. |
| Beekeepers have long fed colonies sugar syrup and protein substitutes, yet these lack key nutrients found in natural pollen. | A stack of the white slabs of bee food lie on top of a hive. |
| This new, complete diet is like a power bar for bees and the results are promising. | A woman with braids and glasses. Text reads, Taylor Reams. Bee program laboratory manager. Washington state university. |
| So when we put the patties into the colonies, the nurse bees are going to be consuming it and they're the ones that are tending to the young, and so if we have a strong duration of nurse bees, they're able to raise that next generation with better quality and a higher number of brood. | The bees cluster on the hive frames. A man inserts a slab of bee food into a hive. |
| And because they're raising multiple generations, this will affect the hive throughout the whole season. Bees fed the new diet showed increased brood production, better recovery following difficult pollination of crops, increased survival rates, stronger colonies, and overall, healthier bees. | Bees feed in a field of lavender. Blue-gloved hands remove a hive frame. Hands take the lid off a hive to reveal bees feeding on the food supplement. |
| Healthier hives are important to bring your favorite foods to the table. We need healthy and happy honeybees. | Several hives stand on the earth, among trees full of blossom. A bee feeds on white blossom. |
| [Music] | A logo of a growling cougar and a bee on a red background. Text reads, W S U Bee Program. The growling cougar logo. Text reads, college of agricultural, human, and natural resource sciences. Washington state university. |