Many populations of honey bees in North America are starting
to die or maybe extinct and this strange phenomenon is an unsolved mystery
among biologists. Truly not just only in North America but all over the world
honey bees are facing this mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse
Disorder which is harming their populations. Moreover, some of North America’s
4000 bee species could be disappeared with the mystery.
Rutgers University researcher Rachael Winfree said that they
are not the only pollinators in danger “What the researchers found is that the
native wild insects are doing about a half of the flower visitation”.
According to a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey,
Sam Droege is making full color portraits of them as this kind of insects are
too beautiful to be forgotten forever if they have no longer in the world.
He said that when we look at these native species, we are
talking metallic colors, metallic greens, blues, blacks with heavy pitting,
some are highly armored and some are red.
The steps of doing this are the bees must be washed, dried
and put in a special white box that bounces the light, leaving no shadows. Some
of the specimens will be collected by him but some of the others are sent to
him by government agencies, researchers and institutions across the country. He
is photographing not only the domesticated ones, but also several of the wild
species that pollinate crops.
Not only does his work give an identification guide which
will be seen by a small number of people who are usually scientists but it also
benefits most people as sort of a vehicle for talking and illustrating all the
beauty.
Those photos taken from multiple beautiful honey bees are
merged by a computer program into a single beautiful picture.
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