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Department of Agriculture is looking for participants in the National Honey Bee survey. DOA is looking for 24 participants, who must have 8 hives or more. The survey looks at bees health, diseases and pests that haven't been identified in the U.S. yet. Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey is nationwide but participants will get individualized reports on the health of their hives. Pollen analysis looks at pesticides and bees interaction. Discusses...

Maya is a little bee with a big heart. While most bees believe that other insects should be feared, Maya can't help but make friends with Flip the violin-playing grasshopper, Kurt the dung beetle and even Sting, a young hornet. This group of 'fearsome' friends causes some bees to avoid Maya. But when the Queen's royal jelly is stolen, it will take Maya and all of her bug buddies to figure out who did it and how to save the day.

Eleven-year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...

Martin Dohrn, a veteran wildlife cameraman and bee enthusiast, embarked on a special challenge during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020: to film all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England. By the end of the summer, he became bee obsessed and developed relationships with some individuals. Dohrn saw more than 60 species of bees that come in all shapes and sizes, from Britain's largest bumblebees to scissor bees, which are the...

Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners approach to life.

The award-winning Nature series is the longest-running weekly natural history series on television. Winner of the Peabody Award. Rating: TV-G (on both episodes). Two great programs from PBS Nature on one disc! Program 1 - Silence of the Bees explores one of natures most baffling mysteries: the disappearance of the honeybee. Beginning in the winter of 2006, millions of bees vanished from their hives without a trace. The disappearing bees left billions...

Under construction: Two inches tall and trapped in a bathroom, the kids must use what they've learned about structures to escape before being discovered. In a beehive: For this field trip, Ms. Frizzle turns her class into bees and shows them a beehive up close and personal. Can you bee-lieve it?

Spring has sprung, and it's time for the annual fair spelling bee contest! Along with his best pals, Jumbo trains overtime for the big event, because he knows it'll be tough to beat the town's genius student, Bert, who's never misspelled a word! However, the big bad wolf Magnus curses him to completely lose his memory! Will he regain his memory in time for the spelling bee?

The adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl: Max dreams of a world far away from his own called Planet Drool. One day the heroes of Planet Drool, Shark Boy and Lava Girl, materialize on earth needing Max's help. All is not well in his dream world, an alien intelligence threatens his dream planet. Max takes off on a wild and dangerous journey with Shark Boy and Lava Girl to save Planet Drool. Dora and the lost city of gold: Having spent most of her life...

The Hive is a colorful new animated series for pre-schoolers featuring the Bee family, who live together in Honeybee Hive. Pappa Bee, Mamma Bee, Buzzbee and Rubee are really just like any other family, except they are tiny, stripy and buzz around in the sky! The Hive is about the everyday things that concern little children such as playing, being friendly, spending time with your family and finding out all about the world and how it works.