-So these look terribly small, almost mistaken as mosquitoes.-Yeah, we could do, but I see them that they got two pairs of wings. -And actually they are proper bees. How did you find them be there? -So... Well, essentially it's the h* so these small

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2013年

The Mysterious Honeybee Disappearance 神秘的蜂群消失事件 by Rebecca A. Fratzke Honeybees are used to help many crops flower and grow. Thus, they play an extremely important _(1)_ in agriculture. However, since 2006, beekeepers in the US have

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Studies Link Bee Decline to Insecticide Billion-dollar bees Bees pollinate the flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables. The work these insects do is worth about $18 billion a year to U.S. farmers. But honeybee colonies in the United States ha

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(三月)

By Steve Mort Tampa, Florida 11 April 2007 Farmers in the United States say they are growing increasingly concerned about a mysterious shortage of honeybees. The U.S. government says it is investigating a dramatic decline in the bee population over

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. What has happened to America's honeybees? Last fall, beekeepers from states with warm climates began to report a sudden loss of honey bees. Losses were reported in twenty-four states and into Canad

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Honeybees Are Disappearing, No One Knows Why 蜜蜂正在消失 无人知其缘由 Entomologists -- scientists who study insects -- are working with other scientists to learn why bee colonies are dying in the United States. They call the problem colo

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AS IT IS 2015-09-22 Saving the Honeybees, One Hive at a Time American Billy Davis has been keeping bees since the 1960s. He has followed the sharp drop in the number of honeybees across the country. Two years ago, he set up a non-profit group called

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Bees Are Misunderstood, Experts say Be nice to bees, advises Jeff Miller of DCHoneybees.com. Miller says you might not care as much for your dinner if they were not buzzing around your neighborhood. If we didnt have pollinators the only kinds of food

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Honeybees, which are very important to agriculture, continue to disappear at alarming rates in the United States. And the cause of this disappearance is still elusive. While at least one recent study seems to point to pesticides as the problem, the U

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We've heard a lot in recent years about the struggles of honeybees, how their numbers are down. So environmentalists have rallied to their aid - even helping people to set up their own beehives. But this bothers a lot of ecologists

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The widespread death of honeybees has some farmers fretty because if honey bees disappear, who will pollinate their crops. Almost any kind of insects you can think of. Marggie Mayfield, an ecologist at the Universtiy of Queensland in Australia. Globa

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Fungicide for Plants May Hurt Honeybees除草剂可能对蜜蜂造成伤害 根据一项最新调查结果,一种广泛用于抵抗植物疾病的化学剂会对蜜蜂造成伤害,这项结果令人吃惊。美国之声记者梅根麦格拉思带来

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Honeybees in Winter 一只蜜蜂无法度过严寒的冬天。一群蜜蜂则不同。据说蜂箱中的蜜蜂要过冬的时候,往往要抱成一团。最外面的一层是工蜂,它们拼命地煽动着翅膀,像厚厚的衣服一样阻隔着外

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