The program began in 2019 and is ongoing as of this writing. Wild bees are different from the cultivated colonies of honeybees, a non-native type of bee kept in beehives and tended by beekeepers as ...
What they found was that pollinators like bees raised macadamia yields by an average of 525% for the set of "final nuts" counted well after plants flowered. Meanwhile, insect damage to nuts was ...
Their remarkable diversity often leads to the assumption that they evolved different looks to attract different pollinators, said Drew Schield, the paper's first author and assistant professor at the ...