Insects and the City: can cities save our bees? Away from intensive agriculture and sheltered from the effects of climate change, our cities may be the refuges that bees and other insect pollinators need to survive. Flitting from plant to plant, from flower to flower, bees and other insect pollinators play an essential role in crop pollination and the human food supply. But they’re struggling: intensive agriculture and climate change has taken a heavy toll on their populations. Might our cities be the perfect haven for these pollinators? Amid the brick and concrete, steel and glass, there are parks, gardens and curious bits of greenery – and here you can find honey bees, bumble bees, solitary bees, flies and butterflies. In this film we meet the scientists from The Insect Pollinators Initiative, an ambitious UK-wide scientific collaboration that’s exploring where and how wild bees and other pollinators are living in cities around the UK. And as we follow renowned guerrilla gardener Richard Reynolds around his home in Londons concrete maze, Elephant and Castle, we discover a curious symbiosis between humans and bees. By investing in the future of bees living successfully in cities, we may also be investing in our own health and happiness. Filmed, directed and edited by Dr Barry J Gibb. A Mosaic film for the Wellcome Trust: mosaicscience https://youtube/watch?v=b8qkdMNaneM#t=18
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:18:12 +0000
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