Bees (1984)

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Main Search Term and Keywords: Artificial Insemination

Date of Broadcast: 21st May 1984

Clip Duration: 3 min 39 seconds

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Description: Bees: Look at Welsh school where children are involved in experimenting with the artificial insemination of bees.

• Bees at work collecting nectar
• Schoolchildren ‘improving’ on nature
• Keeping 3 hives, each heated – fooling the bees into thinking it is summer
• Explanation of bees and their lifespans/reproduction
• Artificially insemination of bees in the laboratory
• Interview with a teacher of the school
• Practical reason for beekeepers to be able to select the drones that mate with the queen bee
• Bred for characteristics – e.g. ability to fly in cold weather
• Artificial Selection

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