Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety - Apidologie
Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety - Apidologie
Almond is a high-market value crop that benefits from honeybee pollination services, even for self-compatible varieties. Besides, it has been recently shown that the offering of food scented with floral mimic odors specific to different crops biased honeybee foraging preferences towards sunflowers, ...
Are these the same almond farms that also kill swaths of bees from the pesticides etc they use?
Is this a damage control article or something?
I should also clarify that agroecological studies like this get a lot of funding for commerce reasons but do have a lot of implications for biodiversity and rewilding work as obviously healthy, happy environments get more yield. Coral reefs also exhibit similar behaviour with sound.
No, it looks like a nature-based solution experiment. These are important and have wider consequences that benefit general ecological studies.