Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
Anand Varma: Uzbudljiv pogled na prvi 21 dan života pčele
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.
u Berkliju u Kaliforniji.
I'd never kept bees before,
nikada nisam držao pčele,
to photograph a story about them,
da fotografišem prilog o njima
to take compelling images,
uverljive slike,
of our food crops,
a really hard time.
what this problem really looks like.
kako ovaj problem zapravo izgleda.
what I found over the last year.
tokom prošle godine.
from its brood cell,
napola iz svog legla
with several different problems,
sa nekoliko različitih problema,
and habitat loss,
i gubitak staništa,
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
parazitska grinja iz Azije,
crawls onto young bees
se prikrade mladim pčelama
the immune system of the bees,
to stress and disease.
stresu i bolestima.
inside their brood cells,
unutar svojih ćelija legla
what that process really looks like,
kako taj proces zaista izgleda
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
za pčelarstvo na Univerzitetu Dejvis,
in front of a camera.
ispred fotoaparata.
the first 21 days of a bee's life
as it hatches into a larva,
swim around their cells
u svojim ćelijama,
that nurse bees secrete for them.
koju za njih luče pčele dadilje.
slowly differentiate
njihove glave i tela
running around in the cells.
kako grinje trčkaraju po ćelijama.
u njihovim telima
develops in their eyes.
u njihovim očima.
is their skin shrivels up
da se njihova koža smežura
through that video,
on the baby bees,
typically manage these mites
sa ovim grinjama
on finding alternatives
alternativnih rešenja
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
u Laboratoriji za pčele
u Baton Ružu
are part of that program.
deo su tog programa.
a natural ability to fight mites,
borbe protiv grinja,
a line of mite-resistant bees.
koja je otporna na grinje.
to breed bees in a lab.
uzgajale u laboratoriji.
using this precision instrument.
ovaj precizni instrument.
which bees are being crossed,
se ukrštaju
in having this much control.
kada imate ovoliko kontrole.
mite-resistant bees,
koje su otporne na grinje
started to lose traits
počele da gube svojstva
and their ability to store honey,
da čuvaju med,
with commercial beekeepers.
sa komercijalnim pčelarima.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
jednu od svojih 72 000 košnica.
beekeeping operation in the world,
pčelarsku operaciju na svetu,
mite-resistant bees into his operation
svoje pčele otporne na grinje u operaciju
that are not only mite-resistant
koje su ne samo otporne na grinje,
that make them useful to us.
koje ih čine korisnim za nas.
and exploiting bees,
i iskorišćavamo ih,
for thousands of years.
već hiljadama godina.
and put it inside of a box,
i stavili smo ga u kutiju,
so that we could harvest their honey,
da bismo skupljali njihov med,
our native pollinators,
da gubimo prirodne oprašivače
where those wild pollinators
gde divlji oprašivači
demands of our agriculture,
potražnju naše poljoprivrede
an integral part of our food system.
ključni deo našeg sistema hrane.
our relationship to bees,
našu vezu sa pčelama,
the basic biology of bees
osnovnu biologiju pčela
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
koje ponekad ne možemo da vidimo.
to understand bees up close.
razumemo izbliza.
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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