Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
Anand Varma: En spännande inblick i de 21 första dagarna av ett bis liv
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.
i Berkeley, Kalifornien.
I'd never kept bees before,
hade jag aldrig haft bin.
to photograph a story about them,
fotografera ett reportage om dem,
to take compelling images,
kunna ta fängslande bilder,
of our food crops,
av våra grödor
a really hard time.
haft det ganska tufft.
what this problem really looks like.
hur problemet verkligen ser ut.
what I found over the last year.
under det senast året.
from its brood cell,
utkrupet från sin yngelcell,
with several different problems,
flertal allvarliga problem,
and habitat loss,
och förlust av habitat,
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
är ett parasitiskt kvalster från Asien,
crawls onto young bees
knappnålshuvud, angriper bin
the immune system of the bees,
to stress and disease.
för stress och sjukdomar.
inside their brood cells,
what that process really looks like,
verkligen ser ut,
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
ett bilaboratorium på U.C. Davis
in front of a camera.
bin framför en kamera.
21 dagarna i ett bis liv
the first 21 days of a bee's life
as it hatches into a larva,
kläcks till en larv,
swim around their cells
simmar runt i sina celler
that nurse bees secrete for them.
som ambina utsöndrar till dem.
slowly differentiate
huvud och ben långsamt
running around in the cells.
springa omkring inne i cellerna,
inne i deras kroppar
develops in their eyes.
långsamt i deras ögon.
is their skin shrivels up
deras skinn skrumpnar bort
through that video,
on the baby bees,
typically manage these mites
vanligtvis använder mot kvalstren
bisamhället med kemikalier.
on finding alternatives
att hitta alternativ
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
på USDA Bee Lab i Baton Rouge,
are part of that program.
uppvaktande bin är del av programmet.
a natural ability to fight mites,
att bekämpa kvalster,
a line of mite-resistant bees.
av kvalsterresistenta bin.
to breed bees in a lab.
för att avla bin i ett labb.
using this precision instrument.
med det här lilla instrumentet.
which bees are being crossed,
vilka bin som korsas,
för mycket kontroll.
in having this much control.
mite-resistant bees,
kvalsterresistenta bin,
started to lose traits
dessa bin förlora egenskaper
and their ability to store honey,
att samla honung,
with commercial beekeepers.
kommersiella biodlare.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
en av sina 72 000 bikupor.
beekeeping operation in the world,
biodlingsverksamhet i världen,
kvalsterresistenta bin i deras verksamhet
mite-resistant bees into his operation
that are not only mite-resistant
inte bara är kvalsterresistenta
that make them useful to us.
som gör dem användbara för oss.
and exploiting bees,
och exploaterar bin,
for thousands of years.
gjort det i tusentals år.
and put it inside of a box,
och stoppade den inuti en låda,
so that we could harvest their honey,
skulle kunna skörda deras honung,
våra naturliga pollinatörer,
our native pollinators,
where those wild pollinators
där dessa vilda pollinatörer
demands of our agriculture,
som vårt jordbruk har,
an integral part of our food system.
integrerad del av vår matproduktion.
our relationship to bees,
förhållande till bin,
the basic biology of bees
grundläggande biologi
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
som vi ibland inte kan se.
to understand bees up close.
på nära håll.
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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