At the very beginning, I thought I was learning（学习） quite a lot about the bees, and over the years I've noticed that I actually learn a lot more about myself through the bees. The bees and even the other insects, they're not the evil（邪恶）, annoying insects you splat to death. They're vitally important animals on this planet, and we all need them. Without them, we wouldn't be able to live. They're ultimately（最后） the food for all other animals. The bees and insects die out, and yeah, I'm trying my best to do something about it.

  I've always been interested in nature. I grew up here in the countryside. I never had a cell（细胞） phone, so I had to find（找到） other ways to keep myself busy. And I realized that nature wasn't doing so well. Then I started to build ponds（池塘） and put up bird boxes for birds to nest（巢）. And that's how it all came about.

  I really only use this smoke when they're very aggressive（好斗的）. They don't like it. They think it's a forest fire. They haven't completed this one. But here you can see the nest. It's being born（承担）, right?

  Takes a while. And boom（繁荣）, she's on her way. Good morning. We hadn't planned at all for social media stuff to escalate（逐步升高） like this. I made a video with a friend. We said this message has to get out into the world.

  There are far too few people teaching us about these important insects and the whole topic. So we just made a video clip（（塑料或金属的）夹子）, uploaded it, and it went viral（ 病毒性的）. And with the next clips, it happened again and again. Now I'm finally reaching people so that more people can do it and other people can start doing it. The thing is, every one of us knows the planet's going down, right? Everything's dying and stuff.

  And maybe that's also a reason why people watch the videos. Because I show solutions. What you can do on your balcony, in your garden, on a small scale（刻度） to make the world a little bit more bee-friendly again. Or just generally more animal-friendly. The interest is there. The topic of bees was just not really communicated, I think, in a way that was accessible（易接近的） for young people.

  I don't know how to put it, really. We're here, between Nindorf and Travamunda, at the Bay（湾） of Lübeck. Through the year I move up and down the bay with my bee colonies（殖民地）, depending on where different plants are in bloom. I'm Stephanie Eden. I'm 46 years old and I run a small, sustainable（可以忍受的） boutique apiary on the Baltic（a波罗的海的） coast. I started writing a book about reskilling as a beekeeper about two years ago to encourage others to do the same.

  I love how calm and focused it is to work at the beehives. It makes me incredibly happy to capture（捕获） the taste of spring and summer in a glass, to attach labels to the honey jars in autumn, and to put them on the shelves. I started beekeeping in my late 30s and with three young children it's really exciting to see that they've started to naturally become curious（好奇的） about looking into the hives. They're learning a lot about bees. And unlike many adults, they're quite relaxed and just use their senses to observe（遵守） what's happening in the hive. I worked in marketing in Piaan, Hamburg and Berlin for many years, and found city life and everything that goes with it incredibly exciting.

  Then something very personal and actually very beautiful happened. We had twins. And that suddenly called my entire（全部的） professional life into question. I had no prospects（展望） in my job at that time. I swallow（ 吞下）, and I feel that something fundamental（基本的） is about to change. Wasn't it only just a moment ago that I had felt completely equal?

  Class and I are in our mid-30s, we've both invested a lot in our education and studies, and there's not much difference in our earnings（所得）. What's more, I've never had any reason to doubt that my employer offers its employees family-friendly working hours. But just by deciding to start a family, I seem to be catapulted out of everything I've accomplished（完成） so far. And my idea of how equal everything should be bursts like a bubble. Welcome to reality. Speedkeeping has really been the decision I made after having been treated like this in my professional life.

  It was certainly a reason to say, I'm going to upend a draw. I'll just start my own business. Then I'll work according（使一致） to my own standards and my own values. I have had my own bee colony. It was in the garden here. It was one of the first ones mom had.

  It was also a very nice colony. It had a nice queen, so the whole colony was relaxed and lovely. The bees have to be really well protected, because without the bees nothing would really work at all, and all living things would be quite a bit further behind without them. We once talked about pollination（授粉）. And you just need bees, because otherwise（另外） nothing would grow. Nothing at all.

  No apple trees. Nothing at all. In Germany and worldwide, insect populations are declining（拒绝）, including the pollinators（授花粉器）, such as bees. A large, well-publicized（宣扬） study a few years ago showed that within 27 years, up to 70% of the insect biomass in nature reserves（储备(物)） had declined（拒绝）. I'm Katarina Schmidt. We're here at one of Epic（史诗） AI's test sites.

  We're a technology company that uses AI to try to find out how to analyze why insects are dying out. Here on site, we're doing a trial（试验） with a total of 14 colonies（殖民地）, each in its own tunnel（隧道） where facilitya plants are in bloom, which the bees love. This is our monitoring system for bee colonies. It's placed right by the hive, and all bees that enter or exit（出口） have to pass through this entrance area. Then the camera gives us data（资料） on these images of the bees. We use artificial（人工的） intelligence.

  If you take a closer look here, you can see just how much we can do. We have up to 200 bees going in and out per minute.