Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
Anand Varma: Jaudinantis žvilgsnis į pirmas 21 bitės gyvenimo dieną
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.
Berklyje, Kalifornijoje
I'd never kept bees before,
niekada nelaikiau bičių,
to photograph a story about them,
nufotografuoti jų istoriją,
to take compelling images,
įtikinamai nufotografuoti,
of our food crops,
a really hard time.
sunkius laikus.
what this problem really looks like.
kaip iš tiesų atrodo ši problema.
what I found over the last year.
per paskutinius metus.
from its brood cell,
beveik išlindusi iš korio narvelio,
with several different problems,
skirtingomis problemomis,
and habitat loss,
ir gyvenamosios vietos praradimą,
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
parazitinė erkė iš Azijos,
crawls onto young bees
įsisiurbia į jaunas bites
the immune system of the bees,
to stress and disease.
streso ir ligų.
inside their brood cells,
what that process really looks like,
atrodo šis procesas, tad drauge
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
bičių laboratorija Davise,
in front of a camera.
prieš kamerą.
the first 21 days of a bee's life
as it hatches into a larva,
iš kurio iš išsirita lerva,
swim around their cells
sukasi ratu korio narveliuose
that nurse bees secrete for them.
išskiriama balta mase.
slowly differentiate
running around in the cells.
besisukančias narveliuose.
develops in their eyes.
is their skin shrivels up
yra odos susiraukšlėjimas
through that video,
on the baby bees,
typically manage these mites
kovoja su erkėm,
on finding alternatives
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
JAV Žemdirbystės departamente Baton Ruže,
are part of that program.
yra tos programos dalis.
a natural ability to fight mites,
gebėjimą nugalėti erkes,
a line of mite-resistant bees.
atsparias bites.
to breed bees in a lab.
bites laboratorijoje.
using this precision instrument.
naudojant tikslų įrankį.
which bees are being crossed,
yra sukryžminamos,
in having this much control.
reikalingas kompromisas.
mite-resistant bees,
erkėms atsparias bites,
started to lose traits
būdingus bruožus,
and their ability to store honey,
rinkti medų,
with commercial beekeepers.
su bitininkais.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
iš savo 72 000 avilių.
beekeeping operation in the world,
bitininkystės operaciją pasaulyje,
mite-resistant bees into his operation
erkėms atsparias bites į jų veiklą,
that are not only mite-resistant
erkėms atsparias bites,
that make them useful to us.
kurios daro jas mums naudingas.
and exploiting bees,
ir išnaudojame bites,
for thousands of years.
jau tūkstančius metų.
and put it inside of a box,
ir uždarėme jį dėžutėje,
so that we could harvest their honey,
our native pollinators,
prarasti natūralius apdulkintojus,
where those wild pollinators
kur šie apdulkintojai
demands of our agriculture,
an integral part of our food system.
sistemos dalimi.
bičių išsaugojimą,
our relationship to bees,
su bitėmis
the basic biology of bees
biologiją
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
galime matyti.
to understand bees up close.
iš arti.
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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