Colossal | 21 May 2015
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We’ve heard that bees are disappearing. But what is making bee colonies so vulnerable?
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Photographer Anand Varma raised bees in his backyard and teamed up with the bee lab at UC Davis to film and get a up close view of the first three weeks of a bee’s life in unprecedented detail. This project, for National Geographic, gives a lyrical glimpse into a bee hive — and reveals one of the biggest threats to its health, a mite that preys on baby bees in the first 21 days of life. With his incredible footage, set to music from Magik*Magik Orchestra, Varma shows the problem in this Ted talk … and what’s being done to solve it. There’s also a condensed 60 second clip.
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