Bees are organizing themselves spontaneously and naturally to protect their hives from pesticides: an extraordinary example of how nature tries to adapt to the wretched action of man.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThe bees are organizing themselves spontaneous and natural to protect theirs hives from pesticides: an extraordinary example of how nature tries to adapt to the wretched action of man. Don't believe it?
Some American scholars have found numerous examples of this new phenomenon, which we could define "of burial" or "sealing"The polluted beehive cells. In practice, the bees have equipped themselves to fight pollution alone, knocking out pesticide-filled cells to save the rest of the hive.
To confirm this discovery was the very high content of pesticides found in the sealed cells, put out of use by the bees themselves, which preserved all the other nearby cells, used to grow younger bees.
“This is a sensational discovery - he commented Jeff Pettis, a U.S. Department of Agriculture scholar - because that means bees are sensitive to pesticides and try to escape the negative effects of harmful substances. In practice, insects recognize that there is something wrong with some spaces of their environment and try to encapsulate or seal them to save the other cells. If this were not the case, the bees would have no reason to seal their spaces ".
But according to the scientist, if on the one hand bees have found a way to (partially) defend against pollution, on the other hand, this is the most obvious symptom that bees are fewer and fewer and are in danger of becoming extinct. In short, the excessive use of pesticides (which is added to other factors), in trying to solve some problems related to the agricultural world (but not only), risks heavily compromising the life and reproduction of bees.
It is therefore necessary that beekeepers also learn to manage the problem, controlling the doses and above all the effects of the parasites used.
Verdiana Amorosi
Source and photo: The Guardian
