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Whither the Honey Bee?
勤勞小蜜蜂，如此命苦

This past winter, about 30 percent of all the managed honeybees in the U.S. died. That's according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Such a die-off is no longer unusual. About a third of honeybees have perished every winter since 2006.
據(jù)美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部透露，去年冬天，美國(guó)有30％的養(yǎng)殖蜜蜂死亡。對(duì)此，人們已見怪不怪了，因?yàn)樽?006年以來，每年冬天蜜蜂數(shù)量就會(huì)銳減30％。

Given that recent history, USDA entomologist Jeff Pettis characterized this as quote "marginally encouraging" given that quote "the problem does not appear to be getting worse."
美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部昆蟲學(xué)家杰夫佩蒂斯稱之為“少許鼓勵(lì)”因?yàn)椤斑@個(gè)問題并沒有惡化的趨勢(shì)”。

Of course, the problem has been getting worse since at least the 1980s, when parasitic mites first invaded the U.S. Our friend Apis mellifera has never recovered. Now so-called "Colony Collapse Disorder" or CCD continues to kill bees--who provide some $15-billion worth of economic good via pollination.
眾所周知，少說從20世紀(jì)80年代寄生螨首次入侵美國(guó)開始，這個(gè)問題就一直在惡化?？蓱z的意大利蜜蜂從那以后就再也沒擺脫過厄運(yùn)?！胺淙罕罎⒕C合癥”（CCD）至今仍是蜜蜂的殺手，勤勞的小蜜蜂傳粉采蜜的經(jīng)濟(jì)貢獻(xiàn)約合150億的經(jīng)濟(jì)商品呢。

To really solve the problem would require much more than solving the mystery of CCD. It would require a shift away from the widespread use of pesticides that unintentionally impact bees and the large-scale agriculture that forces them to subsist on a single type of flower rather than their usual diverse diet. Plus, there's the globalization that allows bee-killing disorders to spread rapidly and easily. What a buzz kill.
要想真正挽救小蜜蜂，光解決蜂群崩潰綜合癥是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠的。我們需要停止使用殺蟲劑，因?yàn)樗鼈儫o形之中就會(huì)影響到蜜蜂的生存；還需要減少大規(guī)模農(nóng)業(yè)，因?yàn)檫@樣會(huì)使得蜜蜂傳粉采蜜對(duì)象過于單一。此外，在全球化的影響下，引發(fā)蜜蜂死亡的病癥極易傳播。哎～尸橫遍野咯～

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