What is up everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here? We are back with Peter Nelson, the director of the

Pollinators documentary, fantastic documentary, highly recommend you check it out.

I will put some links in the description for you.

Today we're going to be talking about colony collapse disorder which like I teased in yesterday's

outro I used to just think was the catch-all term for any time a colony collapsed.

That's just what you called it.

But I think that is certainly not true and I would love to have Peter if you could

just kind of give us a little bit more of a

nuanced understanding of what's going on when we when we're saying colony collapse disorder.

Yeah, thanks. It's so back in the mid 2000s, the precise day, I think it was 2005, 2006, Beekeeper who actually

in the film The Pollinators, Dave Hackenberg, was the guy who sounded the alarm about colony

collapse disorder, and they didn't know what it was.

And so he had, it was kind of an unusual thing where he had hives that were, the bees were disappearing from the hive it was like when bees

die from pesticide poisoning then typically you'll see a pile of dead bees in front of

the hive or around the hive.

But he opened up his hives down in Florida

where he was at the time and looked in

and there were very few bees in there.

There was, there were, there's a queen bee often there were some

workers there was some eggs and some larva but the majority of the bees were

gone just disappeared so they went out of the hive and they didn't come back and that was a very new

phenomena and everybody panicked about it, rightly so and there are a lot of scientists that

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