Attracting wild bees pays off in bigger berries
Posted by staff / April 3, 2014 crop pollinationwild bees
Investing in habitat that attracts wild bees to farms is an effective approach to increase crop pollination, and it can pay for itself through larger yields in four years or less.
“Other studies have demonstrated that creating flowering habitat will attract wild bees, and a few have shown that this can increase yields,” he says. “This is the first paper that demonstrates an economic advantage. This gives us a strong argument to present to farmers that this method works, and it puts money back in their pockets,” says Rufus Isaacs, a Michigan State University entomologist.
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