Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan
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As the sun rises, something royal stirs inside a pile of firewood. It's the wasp queen; one of thousands who mated in late autumn and hibernated through the winter. Now she must emerge into the spring air to begin her reign. This queen is the lone survivor of her old hive, and now, she must become the foundress of a new one. Kenny Coogan details a year in the life of a wasp queen.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Kenny Coogan
- Director Biljana Labović
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Animator Denis Chapon
- Art Director Denis Chapon
- Music Stephen LaRosa
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Associate Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
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Pesticides that purposefully poison wasps inadvertently impact a wide range of local wildlife. The spray causes honeybees and biological controls like parasitic wasps, praying mantises and ladybeetles to also die. Fish and aquatic invertebrates are negatively affected. The long-term effects on birds and mammals, including humans are unknown. How can we live harmoniously with wasps?
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Twisha Khurana
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in response to Jiwoo chung Show comment
What in the world of insects does that mean ???!!!!
Jiwoo chung
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Twisha Khurana
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Eat inside and leave wasps alone.
Madyson Goldman
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just leave them alone lol
Ruslana Grishina
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in response to Natalia Plaza Show comment
Yes, i think so too. Just dont leave your food in the street near your home and wasps wont bother you!
Minwook Kim
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We can not kill them and just don't care.
Steven Lombana
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we can and actually their process help the ecosystem keep organized and they help the farms with the vegetables or fruit without need pesticides
Tamaiya Armstrong
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We can live harmoniously together with wasp by stop messing with them. Let them do their things and we do ours.
Mandy Nyoni
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in response to JaMill Morgan-Johnson Show comment
instead of trying to kill wasps save them
JaMill Morgan-Johnson
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we can harmoniously live with wasps by letting them do their job.
