DEEP DIVESMOB MENAGERIE: BEE
生物圈栏：蜜蜂

Minecraft's buzziest companion
Minecraft 里忙得嗡嗡叫的小家伙


Forestry in Minecraft is usually a pretty safe pastime. Grab an axe, locate a tree, chop out the logs in the center, and either let the leaves decay to get saplings or harvest them with a pair of shears for composting or hedge construction. But there’s a danger lurking in the forest, a danger that many loggers are unaware of. It’s the bee, and it’s our mob of the month.
在 Minecraft 里如果无聊，不妨到树林里砍砍树，相对安全又能消遣时间。捎上斧头，挑好树木，接着就砍下中间的原木。而后，既可以等待树叶枯萎，收集树苗；也能够用剪刀把树叶剪下，用来堆肥和建造树篱。不过树林里也暗藏危险，只是相当一部分伐木人都不曾留意。我说的正是蜜蜂，我们的本月生物。。

Bees were added to Minecraft in December 2019 in a patch that was literally named after them – the Buzzy Bees Update . We’ve updated them a few times since, to give them additional food sources, but otherwise, they’re pretty much the same as they were at launch. Why mess with perfection?
蜜蜂是在 2019 年 12 月发布的更新中加入 Minecraft 的，那次更新的主题“嗡嗡蜂群”正是以它为名。在那以后我们又给它更新了几次，丰富了它的食物资源，但除此以外就与刚开始时没什么两样了。蜜蜂设计实在完美无瑕，再作改动容易弄巧成拙。



Bees live in bee nests (not beehives), which can be found in trees in plenty of biomes - oak and birch forests, plains and sunflower plains, mountain meadows, mangrove swamps, and cherry groves. If it’s not raining, then they’ll leave their nest at daybreak, fly around visiting flowers and collecting pollen, and then head home to make honey. While carrying pollen, they’ll fertilize any plants that they fly over, making them handy creatures to keep around your farm.
蜜蜂栖息的地方叫蜂巢（不是蜂箱），许多群系的树木上都可以找到，比如橡树森林、白桦森林、平原、向日葵平原、草甸、红树林沼泽、樱花树林等。如果天气晴好，蜜蜂在破晓时分就会离巢外出，飞来飞去拜会花朵、收集花粉，然后回巢酿蜜。如果身上沾了花粉，还能给途中所飞越的植物施肥，所以说农场里养蜂大有裨益。



Breaking a nest or collecting honey from it will lead to all the bees in the area attacking you at once. Instead, put a campfire below the nest and light it – the smoke will calm the bees, allowing you to collect honey without risk of attack. You can also just run away if you anger them accidentally. If you want to safely move a bee nest then go at night and use a silk touch tool.
只要有人破坏蜂巢或者从蜂巢里取蜜，蜜蜂就会直接群起而攻之。所以应该先在蜂巢下面点燃营火，让烟雾使蜜蜂镇静下来，然后就可以安全收集蜂蜜了。要是不小心惹了蜜蜂，那就快逃吧。如果想把蜂巢整个移走，则可以晚上出动，用精准采集工具把蜂巢挖下。

Finally, bees will follow any player holding a flower of any sort, and they can be bred by giving them a flower – at which point they’ll enter love mode and pair up to create a baby bee, which takes about one in-game day to grow into an adult.
最后要说的是，只要玩家手里拿着随便一种花，蜜蜂就会跟随。给蜜蜂喂花可以使之繁殖，它们首先会进入求爱模式，然后飞到一起，生出幼年蜜蜂。一个游戏日后，幼年蜜蜂就能长大成年。


Image credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim // GNU License
图片来源： Muhammad Mahdi Karim // GNU License


Real-world bees evolved from wasps about 85 million years ago and today they’re a common sight on every continent on Earth except Antarctica. There are about 20,000 different species (!!) which can be divided into four different groups – honeybees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and solitary bees.
现实世界中的蜜蜂在 8,500 万年前由黄蜂进化而来。时至今日，它已成地球除南极洲外各大洲上的常见动物。蜜蜂约有 20,000 个不同品种（！！），可分成四个类型：蜜蜂、熊蜂、无刺蜂、独居蜂。

Humans have been keeping honeybees in hives for about 10,000 years and collecting honey from wild bees for much longer. There are 8,000-year-old paintings of beekeepers in caves in Valencia, and they’re also seen in decorations adorning the walls of tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, including Tutankhamun.
人类用蜂箱养蜂已经有大约 10,000 年历史了，而从野外蜂巢里采蜂蜜的历史还要更为久远。巴伦西亚有 8,000 年前的洞穴壁画，上面画的就是养蜂人。埃及法老（包括图坦卡蒙）墓室的墙壁装饰上也能看到类似画作。



Today, they’re vital to agriculture – about a third of the human food supply depends on pollination by insects, birds, and bats – most of which is done by bees. Unfortunately, the use of pesticides, invasive species, climate change, and loss of habitat means that bee populations are falling fast. Since the 90s, about a quarter of known bee species have completely disappeared, and others have seen huge declines. Unless we turn that decline around, humankind’s food supply is looking uncertain.
如今，蜜蜂对农业的影响可谓举足轻重。人类粮食供应中约三分之一要依靠昆虫、鸟类、蝙蝠等授粉才得以收成，在这其中蜜蜂就占了大头。然而，受杀虫剂使用、物种入侵、气候变化、栖息地减少等因素影响，蜜蜂种群数量正急剧减少。自上世纪九十年代起，约四分之一的蜜蜂品种已经彻底消逝，剩下部分的数量也在不断减少。若继续按此趋势发展，人类粮食供应前景堪忧。

Luckily, there are plenty of bees still in Minecraft. So don’t feel bad about tracking down a nest, and luring its inhabitants back to your farm to accelerate your crop growth. Just bee careful where you swing that axe while logging – or there’ll be a stinging surprise coming your way.
所幸，Minecraft 里面仍有许多蜂蜜，所以把蜂巢和蜜蜂带回农场，让它们促进农作物生长吧，不必自责。只是挥斧头伐木的时候要小心些，不然“刺”激惊喜等着你。




【橄榄Chan（aka Olvcpr423）译自官网 2023 年 09 月 15 日发布的 Bee；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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