Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
אנאנד ורמה: מבט מרגש ל 21 הימים הראשונים בחייה של דבורה
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.
בברקלי, קליפורניה
I'd never kept bees before,
to photograph a story about them,
סיפור על דבורים
to take compelling images,
תמונות משכנעות אלה
of our food crops,
a really hard time.
what this problem really looks like.
what I found over the last year.
from its brood cell,
with several different problems,
and habitat loss,
מחלות ואובדן בית הגידול שלהם,
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
crawls onto young bees
זוחלת על דבורים צעירות
the immune system of the bees,
המערכת החיסונית של הדבורים,
to stress and disease.
inside their brood cells,
what that process really looks like,
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
באוניברסיטת קליפורניה
in front of a camera.
the first 21 days of a bee's life
בחייה של דבורה
as it hatches into a larva,
כאשר הזחל בוקע ממנה,
swim around their cells
that nurse bees secrete for them.
שהדבורים המטפלות מייצרות עבורן.
slowly differentiate
running around in the cells.
develops in their eyes.
is their skin shrivels up
through that video,
on the baby bees,
typically manage these mites
on finding alternatives
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
הדבורים של משרד החקלאות בבאטון רוז',
are part of that program.
a natural ability to fight mites,
להלחם בקרדיות
a line of mite-resistant bees.
to breed bees in a lab.
using this precision instrument.
which bees are being crossed,
in having this much control.
mite-resistant bees,
שהם עמידות בפני קרדיות
started to lose traits
and their ability to store honey,
with commercial beekeepers.
מגדלי דבורים מסחריים.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
מ 72,000 הכוורות שלו.
beekeeping operation in the world,
הגדולה בעולם.
mite-resistant bees into his operation
עם קרדיות בחווה שלהם
that are not only mite-resistant
לא רק עמידות בפני קרדיות
that make them useful to us.
שעושות את הדבורים מועילות לנו.
and exploiting bees,
for thousands of years.
אלפי שנים.
and put it inside of a box,
so that we could harvest their honey,
our native pollinators,
where those wild pollinators
demands of our agriculture,
החקלאות שלנו.
an integral part of our food system.
הן חלק ממערכת המזון שלנו.
our relationship to bees,
היחסים שלנו עם הדבורים
the basic biology of bees
הביולוגיה הבסיסית של הדבורים
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
שלעיתים איננו רואים.
to understand bees up close.
עלינו להבין את הדבורים מקרוב.
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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