Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
Anand Varma: Strhující pohled na vývoj včely během 21 dní.
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in Berkeley, California.
v Berkely v Kaliformii.
I'd never kept bees before,
to photograph a story about them,
abych je nafotografoval pro dokument.
to take compelling images,
že sám včely začnu chovat.
of our food crops,
naší zemědělské produkce
a really hard time.
opravdu těžké časy.
what this problem really looks like.
jak vlastně ten problém vypadá.
what I found over the last year.
from its brood cell,
ze své mateřské buňky.
with several different problems,
and habitat loss,
nebo úbytek životního prostředí.
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
parazitující roztoč z Asie,
crawls onto young bees
vleze na mladou včelu
the immune system of the bees,
to stress and disease.
pro jiné nemoci a stres.
inside their brood cells,
plodových buňkách
what that process really looks like,
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
s včelařskou laboratoří v U.C. Davis
in front of a camera.
the first 21 days of a bee's life
as it hatches into a larva,
které se mění v larvu.
swim around their cells
které plavou ve svých buňkách.
that nurse bees secrete for them.
kterou jim včely krmičky vyměšují.
slowly differentiate
nožičky a hlava
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,
ve včelí laboratoři USDA v Baton Rouge.
are part of that program.
jsou součástí toho programu.
a natural ability to fight mites,
se s roztoči vypořádat.
a line of mite-resistant bees.
rezistentní vůči roztočům.
to breed bees in a lab.
using this precision instrument.
which bees are being crossed,
in having this much control.
mite-resistant bees,
started to lose traits
včely ztratily některé vlastnosti,
and their ability to store honey,
a schopnost ukládat med.
with commercial beekeepers.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
jak otevírá jeden ze svých 72,000 úlů.
beekeeping operation in the world,
největší včelařský podnik na světě.
mite-resistant bees into his operation
do jejich provozu,
that are not only mite-resistant
nejen rezistentní proti roztočům,
that make them useful to us.
díky kterým jsou pro nás užitečné.
and exploiting bees,
manipulujeme a zneužíváme.
for thousands of years.
tohle už děláme tisíce let.
and put it inside of a box,
a dáme ho do krabičky.
so that we could harvest their honey,
our native pollinators,
přirozené opylovače,
where those wild pollinators
která tito divocí opylovači
demands of our agriculture,
a intenzitě našeho zemědělství,
an integral part of our food system.
nedílnou součástí našeho systému výživy.
our relationship to bees,
the basic biology of bees
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
které občas nevidíme.
to understand bees up close.
mnohem více, mnohem lépe.
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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