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BeeSavior:
Apiculturist
ChoiYong-soo
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ByLimSe-jin
AssociateEditorofTheory&CritiqueSectio
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f honeybees disappear from the surface of the Earth, man would have no
more than four years left to live.¡± It is a warning from Albert Einstein,
[BeforeReading]
whoemphasizedtheimportanceofhoneybees.AccordingtotheFoodand
Pollination: The act of transferring
AgricultureOrganization(FAO),morethan70percentoftheworld¡¯stop100crops
pollen grains from the male anther
pollinate and bear fruit through honeybees. In other words, honeybees carry pollen
of a flower to the female stigma.
fromplantsandproducefruit,whichincreasescropyieldsandhasagreatinfluence
Pollination is needed for plants to
onthehumanfoodsupply.
reproduce, and so many plants
However,thisspring,aheadofthehoneyharvestseason,thenumberofbeekeepers
depend on bees or other insects
who are discouraged after opening beehives to wake up the bees from hibernation
as pollinators. Bees are excellent
is rapidly increasing. According to a survey conducted by the Rural Development
pollinators because most of their
Administration and Korea Beekeeping Association on bee farms nationwide from
early January to the end of February, about seven billion bees in wintering are
life is spent collecting pollen, a
believedtohavedisappeared,andthedamageisestimatedtohavealreadyexceeded
source of protein that they feed to
100 billion won (US$ 81.76 million). Choi Yong-soo, an apiculturist at the Rural
theirdevelopingoffspring.
Development Administration¡¯s Department of Agricultural Biology Apiculture
Division,isthefirstpersoninKoreatodevelopanddistributehoneybeesforthehigh
Sacbrood:Aviraldiseaseinhoney
yield of honey and disease-resistant native bees to solve this situation. For World
bees which affects the larvae,
Bee Day on May 20, The Argus aims to explore the coexistence of honeybees and
causing them to shrivel up and
humansconsideringresearchconductedbyChoiYong-sooandtolookathisbeliefs
becomescalelike.
abouthisfindings.
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