Lecture about bees Today i saw a lecture about our relationship with bees. The video was conducted by a photographer and he made a compelling images about the first twenty-one bees life days. The panelist told that actually the bees are dealing with a lot of problems like, diseases, habitat loss and a specific predator called Varroa destructor. Varroa destructor it's a mite that craws between the hive and such bees blood killing them. Researchers are manipulating bees to develop a new line of mite-resistance bees. To do that they have used a queen and sedated it, and then, they artificially have inseminated the queen bee. As a result the researchers obtain a new breed, a resistance breed. It's good that they get this but in contradiction the new bees are losing the capacity to store honey and the gentleness. To overcome this problem the researchers are collaborating with commercial beekeepers to select the bees that are gentleness, resistant and a great honey producer. The panelist finish his lecture saying that we do not have to think that we are manipulating the bees because we have been doing that for a thousand years, we put bees inside boxes, domesticating it. What we have to do is understand bees up close.