Nova DVD - Bees - Tales From The Hive

Amazingly up close footage filmed with specially developed macro 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! This DVD 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. Educational and interesting!