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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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Enjoy.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 49 frasi e 484 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:46. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 102 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Solo il 73% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
bee sostantivo/ˈbiː/ape, pecchia
egg sostantivo/ɛɡ/uovo
nest sostantivo/nɛst/nido
dirt sostantivo/dɝt/terra
gather verbo/ˈɡæðɚ/raccogliere, bottinare
tunnel sostantivo/ˈtʌn(ə)l/tunnel, galleria
dig verbo/dɪɡ/scavare
curve sostantivo/kɚv/curva
hatch verbo/hæt͡ʃ/schiudersi
pants sostantivo/pænts/calzoni, pantaloni
chamber sostantivo/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/camera
violent aggettivo/ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/violento
castle sostantivo/ˈkɑːsəl/castello
suck verbo/sʌk/succhiare, suggere
steal verbo/stiːl/rubare, derubare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
give up verboarrendersi
wipe out verboobliterare, spazzare via

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 7 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, they're, doesn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: flesh /flɛʃ/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, shaggy /ˈʃæɡi/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come bee, egg, nest.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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