The pallid cuckoo ( Cacomantis pallidus ) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.

It's a cuckoo.

When you see a gentleman bee Round a lady bee buzz in ,

But blossom must not ever fly from bee, to bee, to bee.

The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly.

A dead honeybee.

A bee in a bonnet.

The constellation of Taurus... or the life and times of a bumblebee?

This fellow is a very nice bird, this is the Pied cuckoo.

It was great stuff.

Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

Thank you.

Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

Into the room came the bumblebee humming

And you'll see one of the bees come out here.

(Buzzing) (Click, click, bang)

I was never bit by any kind of a bee.

So the Spelling Spider is a cousin of the spelling bee.

I've no memory of ever being bit by any kind of bee.

Did you ever hear of a bee sting being fatal?

A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.

Just an ordinary bee, Miss Claythorne.

I hear a buzzing sound, like a bee in a bottle.

Buzz! I got a hum in my blood, and I feel as if I'd swallowed a bee.

Have you ever seen a bull pup chasing a bee?

This is a bee's leg with the pollen glommed onto it from a mallow plant.

So it's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters.

It's a designer that put 10,000 bees at work and they built this vase.

You'll see one of the bees come out here.

And then the U.S. came in about 1950, and then Switzerland about 1973, and then the U.S. got back on top beat up their chocolates and cuckoo clocks.

You can't call a chap the world's greatest authority on the yellow billed cuckoo without rousing a certain disposition towards chumminess in him.

We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition.

And this female carpenter bee also drawn to the new flush of flowers visits many different kinds

In another South Indian village, these boys here had assembled a video camera and were trying to take the photograph of a bumble bee.

Many of us will remember our childhood growing up, maybe you got stung by a bee, you saw bees on flowers.

And I'll show you a bee, and I want you to follow that bee around this image with your eyes, so track the bee as it moves through the image.

Now, by the time we get out here to, let's say, acute bee paralysis virus probably a bad one to have if you're a bee this virus shares almost no similarity to coxsackievirus, but I can guarantee you that the sequences that are most conserved among these viruses on the right hand of the screen are in identical regions right up here.

And one day I don't know what happened while coming back from the office towards home, maybe I saw a honey bee or it occurred to my mind that if I only could be like the honey bee,

And New Zealand was way up there. And then the U.S. came in about 1950, and then Switzerland about 1973, and then the U.S. got back on top beat up their chocolates and cuckoo clocks.

That's the dream we are carrying on, a dream for every species, every butterfly, every bee, every earthworm, every soil organism to be free, every seed of every crop variety to evolve in freedom the tiniest of farmers and the littlest of children to have the freedom to sow a seed and harvest from that seed for the future.

Now, nobody knows quite how the bees sense that electric charge but their fuzzy, little bodies might be buzzing like your hair when you rub a balloon across it.

So, next time you see a bee buzzing around the garden on a warm spring afternoon, imagine how their world looks, and think about how much of nature remains invisible unless you see it through the right pair of eyes.

In a very, very early morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007.