Bees - Tales from the Hive

53 min · Documentary

Amazingly up-close footage filmed with specially developed lenses brings you the most intimate - and most spectacular - portrayal of a working bee colony ever filmed. It's not frightening - it's fascinating. See things you never imagined. Hear things only bees hear. Discover new-found facts about the strange and complex life of bees. Have you ever seen the high-speed mid-air "wedding flight" of a drone and his queen? Do you know how a bee colony defends itself from honey-loving bears? Did you know it takes nectar from 10 million flowers to create a single liter of honey? No wonder they're called worker bees! Bees: Tales from the Hive exposes a bee colony's secret world - detailing such rarely-seen events as the life-or-death battle between a pair of rival queens, a bee eater's attack on the hive, and a scout bee's mysterious dance that shares special "nectar directions" with the rest of the hive.

Directed by Wolfgang Thaler · Written by Thomas Friedman