Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
Anand Varma: Der ersten aufregenden 21 Tage im Leben einer Biene
Anand Varma's photos tell the story behind the science on everything from primate behavior and hummingbird biomechanics to amphibian disease and forest ecology. Full bio
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in Berkeley, California.
in meinem Garten in Kalifornien.
I'd never kept bees before,
to photograph a story about them,
eine Fotoreportage über Bienen,
to take compelling images,
of our food crops,
unserer Nahrungsernte.
a really hard time.
sie es ziemlich schwer.
what this problem really looks like.
wo genau das Problem liegt.
what I found over the last year.
habe ich Folgendes entdeckt.
from its brood cell,
die noch in ihrer Brutzelle steckt.
with several different problems,
mit verschiedensten Problemen,
and habitat loss,
dem Verlust ihres Lebensraumes,
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
eine parasitische Milbe aus Asien,
crawls onto young bees
krabbelt auf junge Bienen
the immune system of the bees,
das Immunsystem der Bienen.
to stress and disease.
für Stress und Krankheiten.
inside their brood cells,
ihren Brutzellen entwickeln.
what that process really looks like,
wie dieser Prozess aussieht.
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
dem Bienenlabor einer Universität
in front of a camera.
vor der Kamera aufzieht.
the first 21 days of a bee's life
eines Bienenlebens.
as it hatches into a larva,
aus dem eine Larve schlüpft.
swim around their cells
schwimmen in ihren Zellen.
that nurse bees secrete for them.
die sie von Arbeiterbienen erhalten.
slowly differentiate
running around in the cells.
in den Zellen herum rennen.
ihres Körpers um.
develops in their eyes.
entwickelt sich langsam.
is their skin shrivels up
through that video,
on the baby bees,
den Babybienen herum.
typically manage these mites
mit Chemikalien behandeln.
on finding alternatives
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
des USDA-Bienenlabors.
are part of that program.
a natural ability to fight mites,
Fähigkeit haben, Milben abzuwehren.
a line of mite-resistant bees.
nun milbenresistente Bienen.
to breed bees in a lab.
züchten zu können,
die jungfräuliche Königin.
using this precision instrument.
wird sie künstlich befruchtet.
die Forscher genau bestimmen,
which bees are being crossed,
in having this much control.
mite-resistant bees,
milbenresistente Bienen gezüchtet,
started to lose traits
andere Fähigkeiten,
and their ability to store honey,
und die Fähigkeit, Honig zu lagern.
with commercial beekeepers.
mit gewerblichen Imkern zusammen.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
einen seiner 72 000 Bienenstöcke.
beekeeping operation in the world,
betreibt er die größte Imkerei der Welt.
mite-resistant bees into his operation
milbenresistente Bienen in seiner Imkerei.
bald Bienen finden,
that are not only mite-resistant
that make them useful to us.
besitzen, die uns dienen.
and exploiting bees,
manipulieren und ausnutzen.
for thousands of years.
seit Tausenden von Jahren.
and put it inside of a box,
und sperrten es in eine Kiste.
so that we could harvest their honey,
wegen des Honigs,
our native pollinators,
die heimischen Bestäuber,
where those wild pollinators
demands of our agriculture,
Agrarindustrie nicht mehr decken.
an integral part of our food system.
wesentlicher Teil unseres Nahrungssystems.
die Bienen retten müssen,
our relationship to bees,
zu den Bienen retten müssen.
the basic biology of bees
der Biene verstehen
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
uns unbekannte Stressfaktoren haben.
to understand bees up close.
ganz genau verstehen.
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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