bees have one of the biggest jobs in the world.

Hi, I'm Katharina!

And I am Frederic.

We use machine learning

to better understand how nature works.

And we're doing that by observing bees.

Bees have a symbiotic relationship with nature

Plants depend on the pollination

of bees, including the fruits and vegetables

that we eat every day.

Bees and other insects

are dying around the world

and we do not know why.

We don't want the lack of knowledge

to be the reason that bees continue to disappear.

I thought, 'We have to do something about it'.

So we built a hive monitor

that uses a camera to track the bees

as they come and go.

Bees always return to their queen.

If we observe 500 leaving the hive

and only 200 returning

we can assume there is a problem

in the local ecosystem.

We train the model using Tensorflow

Google's open-source machine learning framework

that examines the video from each hive.

But what do we do with all this data that we collect?

We share it with experts

so they can make informed decisions

on things like when to mow lawns

and where to plant trees and flowers

so that bees can continue to power our ecosystem.

This tech is only the first step.

Us humans will have to take it from there.

To all those putting nature first

Search on.