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问答题【2014年真题】（2014下）Bayer cares about the bees. Or at least that's what they tell you at the company's Bee Care Center on its sprawling campus here at Manheim between Dusseldorf and Cologne.Outside the cozy two-story building that houses the center is a whimsical yellow sculpture of a bee. Inside, the same image is fashioned into paper clips, or printed on napkins and mugs.
"Bayer is strictly committed to bee health," said Gillian Mansfield, an official at the company's CropScience Division. She was sitting at the center's semicircular coffee bar,which has a formidable coffee maker and, if you ask, homegrown Bayer honey. On the surrounding walls are bee facts written in English, like"A bee can fly at roughly 16 miles an hour" or,it takes "nectar from some 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey". Next year, Bayer will open another Bee Care Center in Raleigh, N.C., and it has not ruled out more in other parts of the world.
There is, of course, a slight caveat to all this good will. Bayer is one of the major producers of a type of pesticide that the European Union has linked to the large-scale die-offs of honey bee populations in North America and Western Europe. The pesticide was banned this year for use on many flowering crops in Europe that attract honey bees.
Bayer and a Swiss competitor, Syngenta, have disagreed vociferously with the ban, and are fighting in the European High Court in Luxembourg to overturn it.
While others point at pesticides, Bayer has funded research that blames Varroa mites for the bee die-off. And the center combines resources from two of the company's divisions,Bayer CropScience and Bayer Animal Health, to further study the mites.
"The Varroa is the biggest threat we have." said Manuel Tritschler, 28, a third-generation beekeeper who works for Bayer. "It is easy to see the mites on the bees." he said,holding a test tube with dead mites suspended in liquid. "They suck the bee blood, from the adults and from the larvae, and in this way they transport a lot of different pathogens, virus, bacteria and fungus to the bees." he said.
There is no disputing that Varroa mites are a problem, but Mr. Muilerman, a chemicals expert, said they could not be seen as the only threat. The Varroa mite "'cannot explain the massive die-offs on its own,"he said. "We think the bee die-off is a result of exposure to multiple stressors."
"Bayer is strictly committed to bee health," said Gillian Mansfield, an official at the company's CropScience Division. She was sitting at the center's semicircular coffee bar,which has a formidable coffee maker and, if you ask, homegrown Bayer honey. On the surrounding walls are bee facts written in English, like"A bee can fly at roughly 16 miles an hour" or,it takes "nectar from some 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey". Next year, Bayer will open another Bee Care Center in Raleigh, N.C., and it has not ruled out more in other parts of the world.
There is, of course, a slight caveat to all this good will. Bayer is one of the major producers of a type of pesticide that the European Union has linked to the large-scale die-offs of honey bee populations in North America and Western Europe. The pesticide was banned this year for use on many flowering crops in Europe that attract honey bees.
Bayer and a Swiss competitor, Syngenta, have disagreed vociferously with the ban, and are fighting in the European High Court in Luxembourg to overturn it.
While others point at pesticides, Bayer has funded research that blames Varroa mites for the bee die-off. And the center combines resources from two of the company's divisions,Bayer CropScience and Bayer Animal Health, to further study the mites.
"The Varroa is the biggest threat we have." said Manuel Tritschler, 28, a third-generation beekeeper who works for Bayer. "It is easy to see the mites on the bees." he said,holding a test tube with dead mites suspended in liquid. "They suck the bee blood, from the adults and from the larvae, and in this way they transport a lot of different pathogens, virus, bacteria and fungus to the bees." he said.
There is no disputing that Varroa mites are a problem, but Mr. Muilerman, a chemicals expert, said they could not be seen as the only threat. The Varroa mite "'cannot explain the massive die-offs on its own,"he said. "We think the bee die-off is a result of exposure to multiple stressors."
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