-The honeybee.
This essential part of our ecosystem
isn't just a yellow and black nuisance
with a sweet tooth and a stinger.
Bees pollinate one out of every three bites of food we eat
and are responsible for $15 billion
in the U.S. economy every year.
But since 2006, global bee populations have dwindled.
Last year alone, the United States
lost 45% of its bee colonies.
Scientists haven't found a cause
but are calling the phenomenon colony collapse disorder.
There are those trying to save the honeybee,
pushing innovative ideas
and pulling us back from the brink.
They are doing the uncommon good.
-There's an old saying in beekeeping
that you don't choose to be a beekeeper,
but the bees choose you.
I was out in the garden,
and I noticed thousands and thousands of bees.
Got all excited, told Chelsea what was going on.
-And I shut the door. [ Laughs ]
-I hadn't really seen honeybees as a swarm,
and it was only then that I realized
that when they're like that,
they're at their most docile.
They're just trying to find a new home.
I wanted to help other people
understand that bees have this other side to them,
and they really do need our help.
Honey Love's mission is to educate
and inspire urban beekeepers.
-We do a lot of school outreach.
We do a lot of community outreach,
giving them their first taste of honey
and giving them reasons to get excited about why we need bees.
-It's awesome!
It's so good!
-He also said, "Is it true that most bees are girls?"
And, "Is it true the queen
is the only one who can sting twice?"
Like, this little kid totally got it.
Instead of just stepping on a bee
and then having a lifelong fear of bees,
we've given someone so small the bee fever.
-Oh, God!
-To see that impact that we're having,
that's what it's all about for us.
When you try to commercialize nature,
there's going to be blowback.
It's our opinion that that's
what we're witnessing here with the colonies collapsing.
-Our bees in the city are actually thriving.
So what we're trying to do is convince people
that the urban environment is a great place for bees,
as long as when they show up,
someone doesn't call the exterminator.
-This obviously takes quite a bit more effort
than just spraying it with some foam or pesticide.
You actually have to get all the combs out
and try to convince 60,000 bees
that this is where they need to move into.
Chelsea was accusing me of being a cat lady of bees.
It really became apparent
that we were gonna need to figure out a better solution
than bringing everyone's bees to my backyard.
-In L.A., it's not technically legal
to have bees in a residential area.
Where it is legal is in agricultural zones
or in manufacturing zones.
The more we try to find people to kind of lead us
in this venture of legalizing beekeeping,
the more people just kept kind of looking at us.
I ended up meeting someone who had a farm,
so the very next day, we went up,
and it was perfect. That was,
like, a really big step for us to have an official spot
where we were openly allowed to come out of the closet
and say, "Come see our bees."
That's where we hold our monthly mentoring,
where we bring people out and put 'em in suits
and get 'em their first experience
of getting their hands sticky.
Even if you don't want to be a beekeeper,
there are ways to help the bees.
Planting. Things that bloom
here in our gardens and not use pesticides
and put out a water source for the bees.
That's what we really need if we want honeybees
to sustain on this planet.
We want to just kind of spread that message
and help give people the bee fever.