Практика Shadowing: This Fly Torpedoes a Bindweed Bee’s Nest | Deep Look - Изучайте разговорный английский с YouTube

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Life for bindweed turret bees is violent and unfair.
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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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