Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee's life
Anand Varma: Um olhar emocionante sobre os primeiros 21 dias da vida duma abelha
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.
em Berkeley, Califórnia.
I'd never kept bees before,
nunca me tinha dedicado à apicultura,
to photograph a story about them,
para fotografar uma história sobre abelhas.
to take compelling images,
of our food crops,
das culturas alimentares,
a really hard time.
what this problem really looks like.
quis investigar este problema.
what I found over the last year.
o que descobri no decorrer do ano passado.
from its brood cell,
emergir de uma célula de cria.
with several different problems,
diversos problemas
and habitat loss,
e a perda de "habitat",
is a parasitic mite from Asia,
de ácaros ectoparasitas asiáticos.
crawls onto young bees
um alfinete
the immune system of the bees,
das abelhas
to stress and disease.
ao "stress" e às doenças.
inside their brood cells,
nas células de cria,
what that process really looks like,
como se desenrola este processo.
with a bee lab at U.C. Davis
da Universidade da Califórnia, em Davis
in front of a camera.
the first 21 days of a bee's life
os primeiros 21 dias de vida de uma abelha,
as it hatches into a larva,
que dá origem a uma larva.
swim around their cells
giram no interior das suas células
that nurse bees secrete for them.
que as operárias segregam para elas.
slowly differentiate
e as pernas começam a distinguir-se
de metamorpfose.
running around in the cells.
a correr à volta das células.
corporal reorganiza-se
develops in their eyes.
a pigmentação dos olhos.
is their skin shrivels up
a pele enruga-se
through that video,
on the baby bees,
abelhas bebés.
typically manage these mites
tratam estes ácaros
on finding alternatives
à procura de alternativas
at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge,
no USDA Bee Lab em Baton Rouge.
are part of that program.
parte deste programa.
têm uma capacidade natural
a natural ability to fight mites,
a line of mite-resistant bees.
de abelhas resistentes aos ácaros.
to breed bees in a lab.
criar abelhas em laboratório.
using this precision instrument.
utilizando este instrumento de precisão.
que os investigadores controlem exatamente
which bees are being crossed,
em ter tanto controlo.
in having this much control.
mite-resistant bees,
de abelhas resistentes a ácaros
started to lose traits
começaram a perder certas características,
and their ability to store honey,
e a capacidade para armazenar mel.
with commercial beekeepers.
a colaborar com os apicultores comerciais.
one of his 72,000 beehives.
uma das suas 72 mil colmeias.
beekeeping operation in the world,
exploração apícola do mundo.
mite-resistant bees into his operation
aos ácaros nesta operação,
that are not only mite-resistant
que resistam aos ácaros
that make them useful to us.
todas as qualidades que nos são úteis.
and exploiting bees,
e a explorar as abelhas,
for thousands of years.
fazer isto há milhares de anos.
and put it inside of a box,
e colocamo-la dentro de uma caixa,
so that we could harvest their honey,
colher o mel,
our native pollinators,
where those wild pollinators
onde esses polinizadores naturais
demands of our agriculture,
necessária para a nossa agricultura.
an integral part of our food system.
parte essencial do sistema alimentar.
em salvar as abelhas,
our relationship to bees,
a nossa relação com as abelhas
the basic biology of bees
a biologia básica das abelhas
of stressors that we sometimes cannot see.
de "stress" que, às vezes, não podemos ver.
de entender muito bem as abelhas.
to understand bees up close.
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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