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Life for bindweed turret bees is violent and unfair.
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It's spring in California and these male bees are in an all-out brawl, desperate to mate with the female trapped at the bottom of this pile.
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Sometimes the fight is so intense that the female they're going after gets crushed to death.
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But if she survives, she and the winner steal away and mate.
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Until another male wants in.
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Buzzkill.
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Now she starts an epic dig, prepping a place to lay her eggs underground.
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She tirelessly scoops earth with her mandibles, dousing it with nectar she collected earlier to soften it.
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The majority of the world's bee species, 70%, nest in the ground.
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These ones chose a dirt parking lot.
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Some nice folks cordoned it off to protect the bees.
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Females work side by side.
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Each is queen of her own funky little castle.
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They build turrets, but only some of them are vertical.
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Many are tunnel-like with a sideways entrance.
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Others curve down.
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You'll see why that's important in a bit.
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Once the bees are done digging, they head off on another mission.
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They gather pollen from one plant only, morning glories, also known as bindweeds.
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She rubs her shaggy legs all over that pollen.
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And down she goes with her haul.
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Pollen pants.
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Inside her nest, she packs the pollen into neat balls, each one in its own chamber, and lays an egg on top.
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When the egg hatches into a larva, it will live off the pollen.
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she toils.
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Freeloaders show up.
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They look like a bee, but their huge eyes give them away.
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They're called, wait for it, bee flies.
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The fly doesn't dig or gather pollen for her young.
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She just hovers over a bee's nest and...
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Yep, she's dropping her own eggs in there.
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She'll drop 200 eggs over her lifetime.
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This is where those tunnels and curved turrets are useful.
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They make it harder for the flies to drop their eggs in from the air.
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But when the fly does succeed, the fly's egg hatches into a larva that digs tiny hooks into the bee larva.
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As the bee eats the pollen and grows, the fly larva sucks it dry.
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Sometimes the flies are so successful they can nearly wipe out a population of bees.
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These bees don't give up.
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Two or three months of mating, foraging, and warding off parasites come to an end when they seal up their nests with dirt.
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Below ground, babies will grow.
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The following spring, if the bees are lucky, a new tiny city will burst to life,
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full of bees persevering, just as their mothers did before them.
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Let's talk about yellow jackets.
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It's true, these ladies have a special taste for flesh.
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But they don't eat it themselves.
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They bring it to their young.
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How?
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By crashing your cookout and carving your burgers and dogs into teeny tiny meatballs.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 49 frases y 484 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:46. El hablante habla despacio, unas 102 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 73 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
bee sustantivo/ˈbiː/abeja
egg sustantivo/ɛɡ/huevo, aguautle
nest sustantivo/nɛst/nido
dirt sustantivo/dɝt/tierra
tunnel sustantivo/ˈtʌn(ə)l/túnel
dig verbo/dɪɡ/ahondar, cavar
curve sustantivo/kɚv/curva
hatch verbo/hæt͡ʃ/eclosionar
pants sustantivo/pænts/pantalón, pantalones
chamber sustantivo/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/cámara, alcoba
violent adjetivo/ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/violento
castle sustantivo/ˈkɑːsəl/castillo, castro
suck verbo/sʌk/chupar, sorber
steal verbo/stiːl/robar, shacar
entrance sustantivo/ˈɛn.tɹəns/entrada

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
give up verborendirse, entregar
show up verbocomparecer, personarse
wipe out verboaniquilar, exterminar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, they're, doesn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: flesh /flɛʃ/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, shaggy /ˈʃæɡi/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como bee, egg, nest.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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