honey production is worth just $200m a year, but bees pollinate $15 billion-worth of fruit, vegetables and nuts, especially the $2 billion almond business.
蜂蜜产值每年仅2亿美元,但接受蜜蜂授粉的水果、蔬菜和坚果的价值却是150亿美元。
of course it does because honey bees help pollinate a variety of farm crops, vegetables, fruits and many other plants.
当然。因为蜜蜂帮助不同的农作物、蔬菜、水果以及许多其他植物授粉。
but in the 1990s, they made it to california, hitchhiking on the pallets used to transport honeybees moved from farm to farm to pollinate crops.
但是到了90年代,它们来到了加利福利亚,它们搭乘运送蜜蜂的蜂箱,漫游于各个农场,也传到了授粉公司。
since they「re often forced to pollinate one specific crop, they may not get all the nutrients they need to be healthy.
因为它们经常会被迫向一种单一的作物传粉,所以它们可能无法摄入维持健康所需的所有营养。
additionally, similar research published around the same time suggested that the tree was female but appeared to also bear a low level of male-like qualities that would allow it to pollinate itself.
此外,那段时间里发表的有关研究报告也表明,这棵野生的海桐花虽属雌性,但仍含有某些较低程度的雄性特征,从而使自花授粉成为可能。
and without honey bees to pollinate crops, our food supply is in danger.
如果没有这些蜜蜂给农作物授粉,我们的食物供给将会受到威胁。
of the 100 crops that provide nearly all of the world」s food, bees pollinate 70. that amounts to $83 billion worth of fruits and vegetables a year.
人类总共100种粮食作物中,有70种依靠蜜蜂进行授粉,相当于每年提供价值830亿美元的水果和蔬菜。
more than 80% of the world’s almonds are grown in california and, to pollinate them, the 7, 000 or so growers hire about 1.4m of america’s 2.3m commercial hives.
世界80%以上的杏仁树都生长在加利福尼亚,为了给它们授粉,大约7000个种植户租用了全美国230万个商用蜂房中的140万个蜂房。
each year, owner john lerew rents 180 honeybee hives holding millions of bees to pollinate several hundred acres.
果园的经营者约翰·勒鲁(johnlerew)每年都要雇佣180个蜂箱为数百英亩的果树授粉。
jeff pettis: we ask a lot of them. we move them from crop to crop to pollinate and to feed on things that may not be ideal diet.
杰夫?佩蒂斯:我们追蹤了很多蜜蜂,将它们从一个庄稼地转移到另一个,让它们在不同地里授粉,喂给它们算不上理想的食物。
now that these bees are reducing in number, does that affect us? of course it does because honey bees help pollinate a variety of farm crops, vegetables, fruits and many other plants.
因为蜜蜂帮助不同的农作物、蔬菜、水果以及许多其他植物授粉。