Tom Seeley: Honeybee Democracy 

Absolutely fascinating. It gives me purpose to know that someone as brilliant and dedicated 100% to study bees for decades, still find new behaviors in this amazing creatures we hold so close to us.

I'm so grateful I found Mr. Seeley. Turns out I was wrong about bees... Lol

What an amazing research and genius behind all this study of bee beehaviour . Absolutely mindblowing. Deserves a ton of respect for such passionate investigation and care for these marvelous insects.

Everybody should read 'Honybee Democracy' by Tom Seeley. Bees have been living on the Earth for att least 100 miljon years. Humans has been here for a mere 250' years... We try to manage the bees but they suffer severely under our honeygreed. Tom is telling us to listen to and learn from a little creature that is better adopted than humans to survive the challenges that our planet is facing.

Missing one extra ingredient of success: -use an expressive voting method Bees don't merely vote yay or nay on locations, they effectively use a form of Score Voting. Score Voting is agreed by a number of voting method scientists to be one of the best of all methods.

Thank you for sharing this video. I watched it in its entirety and was able to learn a great deal. I am a fairly new beekeeper and have a thirst for knowledge. Thank you Dr. Tom Seeley, and all of your staff, for your abundance of research and sharing your findings. :-)

I'm really enjoyed this presentation. What a great work Thanks a lot for sharing Kind regards from Chile 🇨🇱

i often wondered or guessed pheremone played a part,i never would've guessed it was beeping headbutts,....amazed

I spend all my day watch a watch this video. It's great work and gives us many information to improve decision making.

Nobody turned up. Even the piano player sent in a sick note. Pity, it was a good lecture.

So much information! Thank you for sharing, Mr Seeley!

Excellent content and the video's audio and production is fantastic. Great job!!

Excellent lecture! Very inspirational and informative. I am especially intrigued by the purpose of the quorum.

Very interesting. Thanks for the upload.

Thanks for posting this video...

Heard about Tom Seeley and his book "Honeybee Democracy" at the PA State Beekeepers Conference this month and decided to check out what he had to say. Good speaker and fascinating topic. Want to learn how to make an artificial swarm in the spring of 2016 and started researching by hearing his talk at Cornell. Thanks.

Not a scientist or a bee person but this was a very well thought out video and good lecture loved every minute of it. very informative good information.

Good job! thank you for sharing this interesting video greetings from a bee in france :)

The mechanism of quorum sensing could be pheromones. The more bees in an area, the more intense a "This is the spot" message via pheromone.

i had to watch this video for a quiz, wasnt looking forward to it, found it very interesting.

Thank you Tom Seeley for your excellent work. The information shared is both enjoyable, and enriching. I have made many mental notes based upon these behaviors (of bees), and plan on using anecdotes build around them in the future. SC

Thank you for good efforts and sharing .

THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESEARCH!!! :D

Thank you for interesting Video! Good luck in insects collecting! Best greetings from beekeepers!!!!

48:15 If all the scouts that voted for the good nest are at the good nest, how does the message that the sight is choosen get back to the swarm? Are the scouts at the nest counting that there are now 15 of thyre mates and then some go back to the swarm and do a special move to signal that a sight has been choosen?

Fascinating !

WOW, Thank you Tom

It does not appear to be democratic but republic. Even as the US is a republic. The few, as in the electoral college, make the decision for the masses. The few most experienced and knowledgeable make the decision. Even Socrates thought a democracy was a bad thing but that only the well informed should be involved in a democratic type voting, avoiding the mass and influenced mob rule. His analogy was who you want directing a ship, an experienced wise captain or a vote of all the passengers. It seems the same with bees. The most experienced few become the scout bees to make the decision for the swarm. And their decision is based on the good of the swarm, not on their own individual interest of persuading the others to go their way to be the one in charge, but giving up their finding or choice if another choice is better for the swarm.

Do you have any data on altitude encoding?

Bees don't have egos nor a parasitic ruling class... Must be nice!

Good stuff.

Truly fascinating. I wonder what motivates the bees that "beep" a dancing scout?

How does beep to come into being? By participation of respiratory system, spiracle?

quite helpful

same year my favorite song came out.ironically named after this insect:

4nk u 4 da upload

to be honest, I came here because my class required it.

I'm into Devas and Rudolph Steiner, and I ask you this: is it possible that the Spirit of Place/Land CALLS the Swarms, wanting them, and their Collective experts, the bees themselves, choose the best option?

Sorry for not having the time to fully watch this video. But I do wonder how humans can have a democracy when, unlike bees, many humans can be irrational. aka religious.The lecture, for me, begs the question, can hive collapse be caused by a breakdown in the behaviours? Can they be psychologically impaired by one or more chemical or simply psychological stress brought on by just too many things going wrong.

Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought.

The headbutt part was a little sad. Sure it makes them achieve the consensus probably like a couple of hours earlier, but it wouldn't worth hurting the poor bee psychologically. And I am sure that they would be less likely to decide for the suboptimal, if only they were allowing each other to insist on their findings.

Democracy but not monarchy. Then why do You call her the Queen, we in Serbia call her the mother

And from the fruit of the date-palm and the vine, ye get out wholesome drink and food: behold, in this also is a sign for those who are wise. (Al-Nahl 16:67) `And thy Lord taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in (men's) habitations; (Al-Nahl 16:68)

Anyone who leaves an unsecured firearm lying around in his house should be sent to a remote island and forced to eke out a living on his own, away from society. Oh, wait a minute, that's what they did with him. Devil's island king of thing! Discharging a firearm, however, is not the way to greet unwanted guests, and he ought to have been prosecuted for that. Just take his fishing licence off him for a few months should do it.