被冤枉的功臣——蜜蜂(1/2)

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概述：科学家表示，植物开花结果完成一个生命周期，蜜蜂的传粉起到重要作用。
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Jeff Miller
Walker Jones Elementary School
Heidi Wolff
George Washington University
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答疑：viyarBe nice to bees. You might not care as much for your dinner if they were not buzzing around your neighborhood.
"If we didn't have pollinators, the only kinds of foods we could eat would be wind-pollinated vegetables, say, such as grasses, grains and grapes and things of that nature."
Jeff Miller runs a company that sells beekeeping supplies.  His company partnered with the Walker Jones Elementary School to start this community garden tended by students and local volunteers.
"Well, you can't talk about urban farming without talking about pollinators any more than you could talk about urban farming without talking about water or sunlight."
"A lot of the aspects of your life are impacted by the pollination services that honeybees provide." Researcher Heidi Wolff first surrounded herself with bees as a teen 13 years ago.  Now she studies them at George Washington University.
"Plants do not thrive without pollination.  They cannot complete their life cycle without pollination and bees provide that service."对蜜蜂要友善些。如果没有蜜蜂在你居住的周边忙碌，你可能就不会太在意晚饭的内容了（言下之意：没有太多的食物选择）。
“如果没有传粉者，我们唯一的食物就是那种风媒传粉的蔬菜了，像草、稻谷、葡萄这些。”
杰夫•米勒经营一家出售养蜂用品的公司。他的公司与沃克琼斯小学合作，开办了这家社区菜园，菜园由学生和当地志愿者打理。
“就像你谈到城市农业时不能不谈水和阳光一样，传粉者也是城市农业十分重要的因素。”
“你们生活中的许多方面都是受蜜蜂提供的传粉服务影响的。” 研究员海蒂•沃尔夫如是说。13年前，还是少女的她第一次置身蜜蜂丛中，现在，她在乔治华盛顿大学研究蜜蜂。
“没有授粉，植物就无法茁壮成长。没有授粉，植物就无法完成它们的生命周期。而蜜蜂恰恰是提供授粉服务的。”