我们应该从观察蜜蜂大量死亡的现象中获得警示:我们自己的健康同样可能会受到威胁。蜜蜂是一种生命力极强的物种,4000万年来,繁衍不息。大量蜂群死亡的现象向我们传达了一条明确的信息:我们必须要求监管机构做出要求,在批准混合药物之前,必须研究低剂量的混合化学物会对人类健康造成何种影响。
Bees also provide some clues to how we may build a more collaborative relationship with the services that ecosystems can provide. Beyond honeybees, there are thousands of wild bee species that could offer some of the pollination service needed for agriculture. Yet feral bees — that is, bees not kept by beekeepers — also are threatened by factors similar to those afflicting honeybees: heavy pesticide use, destruction of nesting sites by overly intensive agriculture and a lack of diverse nectar and pollen sources thanks to highly effective weed killers, which decimate the unmanaged plants that bees depend on for nutrition.
蜜蜂还为我们提供了一些线索,告诉我们如何能与生态系统所提供的服务建立起更具合作性的关系。除蜜蜂以外,还有数千种野蜂也能提供农作物所需的授粉服务。不过野生蜂——即不是养蜂人所养的蜜蜂——也受到了与蜜蜂的境况相似的威胁:大量使用杀虫剂;农耕过于集中造成筑巢区被摧毁;高效除草剂的使用,减少了花蜜和花粉来源的多样性——除草剂大量消灭了作为蜜蜂营养来源的野生植物。
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