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Book Review: Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming

by Zsófia Varga-SzilayBooks, Ecology, Pollinators 25/09/202328/01/2024Comments are Disabled

Have a read of my book review about an essential and inspiring book, entitled Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming (2023) edited by Peter Kevan and D. Susan Willis Chan, published in Community Ecology (Springer Nature). To give you a little teaser, here is a snippet from my review: “The primary strength of this book lies …

Noise and pollination

by Zsófia Varga-SzilayBumblebee behaviour, Pollinators 11/06/202330/09/2023Comments are Disabled

In addition to wild pollinators visiting agricultural lands, ’commercial bumblebees’ (e.g. Bombus terrestris audax in Europea) have been used in glass houses and open-field cultivations worldwide since the 1980s. Indeed, bumblebees (Bombus sp.) are the most efficient pollinators for a wide variety of popular crops, such as tomatoes and strawberries, and it is also well-known …