Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
أناند فارما: نظرة مدهشة على أول واحد وعشرين يوماً من حياة النحلة
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in Berkeley, California.
في (بيركلي) في كاليفورنيا
I'd never kept bees before,
لم أكن أحتفظ بالنحل
to photograph a story about them,
تصوير وثائقي عنها
to take compelling images,
الصور المطلوبة
of our food crops,
a really hard time.
what this problem really looks like.
المشكلة التي يواجهها النحل
what I found over the last year.
على مدار السنة الماضية
from its brood cell,
من خليتها الحاضنة
with several different problems,
عدة مشاكل مختلفة
and habitat loss,
وفقدان الموطن
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
بالسوس الطفيلي من آسيا
crawls onto young bees
على النحلات الصغيرة
the immune system of the bees,
to stress and disease.
inside their brood cells,
what that process really looks like,
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
في مختبر (يو سي دافيس)
in front of a camera.
أمام الكاميرا
the first 21 days of a bee's life
من حياة النحلة
as it hatches into a larva,
تنفقس وتعطي يرقة
swim around their cells
that nurse bees secrete for them.
التي ترشح عن النحل
slowly differentiate
running around in the cells.
ينتشر حول الخلايا
develops in their eyes.
is their skin shrivels up
تذوب البشرة
through that video,
on the baby bees,
typically manage these mites
on finding alternatives
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
لوزارة الفلاحة الأمريكية في (باتون روج)
are part of that program.
هم جزء من هذا البرنامج
a natural ability to fight mites,
قدرة طبيعية على مكافحة العت
a line of mite-resistant bees.
من النحلات المقاومة للعت
to breed bees in a lab.
لتنشئة النحل في المختبر
using this precision instrument.
بواسطة آلة دقيقة
which bees are being crossed,
التي يتم تهجينها
in having this much control.
لهذا الكم من التحكم
mite-resistant bees,
started to lose traits
بعض المزايا
and their ability to store honey,
وقدرتها على تخزين العسل
with commercial beekeepers.
مع نحالين تجاريين
one of his 72,000 beehives.
إحدى خلايا النحل البالغ عددها 72,000
beekeeping operation in the world,
تنشأة للنحل في العالم
mite-resistant bees into his operation
النحلات المقاومة للعت بعمليته
that are not only mite-resistant
التي لا تتصف بمقاومتها للعت وحسب
that make them useful to us.
التي تجعلها مفيدة لنا
and exploiting bees,
ونستغله
for thousands of years.
لآلاف السنوات
and put it inside of a box,
ونضعه داخل صندوق
so that we could harvest their honey,
our native pollinators,
ملقحاتنا المحلية
where those wild pollinators
حيث لم تعد الملقحات البرية
demands of our agriculture,
an integral part of our food system.
جزءاً تكاملياً في نظامنا الغذائي
our relationship to bees,
the basic biology of bees
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
التي يتعذر علينا رؤيتها أحياناً
to understand bees up close.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anand Varma - PhotographerAnand Varma's photos tell the story behind the science on everything from primate behavior and hummingbird biomechanics to amphibian disease and forest ecology.
Why you should listen
Anand Varma is a freelance photographer and videographer who started photographing natural history subjects while studying biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent several years assisting David Liittschwager before receiving a National Geographic Young Explorer grant to document the wetlands of Patagonia.
Varma has since become a regular contributor to National Geographic. His first feature story, called “Mindsuckers,” was published on the November 2014 cover of the magazine. This incredible look at parasites won Varma the World Press Photo's first prize in the nature category in 2015.
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