GENEVA — Legal representatives of the world's honeybee population amended their reparations claim Thursday to include what they called "a century of explicit pollination footage" filmed without consent and broadcast on public television.

"Our members were simply going about their private business with a flower," said lead counsel for the bees, reading from a prepared statement. "They had no idea a man in khaki shorts was crouching three feet away with a macro lens and an orchestra."

The filing lists more than 4,000 nature documentaries in which bees are shown "entering blossoms in slow motion," "emerging dusted in pollen," and, in one case, "being narrated by a British man in a tone the hive found suggestive."

The bees are seeking royalties, a warning label, and the removal of all such footage from elementary school science classes, where they say it has been shown "to children, in the dark, sometimes twice."

Human officials, who previously rejected the bees' claim for 30,000 years of back honey, defended the footage as educational. "It's how plants reproduce," said one. The bees' attorney responded that the plants had not consented either.

At press time, the hive had asked the public to stop saying "the birds and the bees," noting that the birds are not involved.