Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
Anand Varma: Un époustouflant aperçu des 21 premiers jours de la vie d'une abeille.
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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à Berkeley, en Californie.
in Berkeley, California.
jamais je n'avais eu d'abeilles,
I'd never kept bees before,
to photograph a story about them,
créer une histoire en photo à leur propos,
prendre des photos poignantes,
to take compelling images,
of our food crops,
de nos cultures,
a really hard time.
pour elles dernièrement.
what this problem really looks like.
je voulais explorer le fond du problème.
what I found over the last year.
ce que j'ai vu durant l'année passée.
from its brood cell,
de son alvéole de couvain,
with several different problems,
différents problèmes,
and habitat loss,
et la perte de leur habitat.
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
vient d'un parasite asiatique :
rampe sur les jeunes abeilles
crawls onto young bees
the immune system of the bees,
immunitaire des abeilles,
to stress and disease.
au stress et à la maladie.
inside their brood cells,
en cellules de couvain,
what that process really looks like,
ce processus ressemble vraiment.
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
un labo apidologique à Davis
in front of a camera.
des abeilles devant une caméra.
the first 21 days of a bee's life
premiers jours d'une vie d'abeille
as it hatches into a larva,
alors qu'en éclôt une larve,
swim around their cells
le long de leurs alvéoles,
that nurse bees secrete for them.
que les nourrices sécrètent pour elles.
slowly differentiate
se différencient lentement
running around in the cells.
se balader dans les alvéoles.
develops in their eyes.
se développe lentement.
is their skin shrivels up
leur peau se ratatine
through that video,
au milieu de la vidéo,
on the baby bees,
sur les bébés abeilles,
typically manage these mites
gèrent habituellement ces acariens
les ruches.
on finding alternatives
sur des techniques alternatives
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
l'agricole des E.U. (USDA), à Baton Rouge,
are part of that program.
font partie de ce programme.
a natural ability to fight mites,
capacité innée à combattre les acariens,
a line of mite-resistant bees.
lignée d'abeilles résistante aux acariens.
to breed bees in a lab.
des abeilles en laboratoire.
using this precision instrument.
à l'aide de cet outil de précision.
which bees are being crossed,
quelles abeilles sont croisées.
in having this much control.
mite-resistant bees,
résistantes aux acariens,
started to lose traits
commencèrent à perdre des caractères
and their ability to store honey,
capacité à stocker le miel,
with commercial beekeepers.
avec des apiculteurs industriels.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
l'une de ses 72 000 ruches.
beekeeping operation in the world,
grand projet apicole du monde,
mite-resistant bees into his operation
résistantes aux Varroa Destructor
that are not only mite-resistant
non seulement résistantes aux acariens
that make them useful to us.
les rendant utiles à nous.
and exploiting bees,
et exploitons les abeilles,
for thousands of years.
faisons, depuis des millénaires.
and put it inside of a box,
et l'avons mise dans une boîte,
so that we could harvest their honey,
récolter leur miel.
our native pollinators,
nos pollinisateurs locaux,
where those wild pollinators
où ces pollinisateurs
demands of our agriculture,
pollinisation de notre agriculture.
an integral part of our food system.
partie intégrante de l'agro-alimentaire.
abeilles,
our relationship to bees,
notre relation aux abeilles,
de nouvelles solutions,
the basic biology of bees
de la biologie des abeilles
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
traumatismes parfois invisibles.
to understand bees up close.
les abeilles de près.
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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