Overview of bee pollination and its economic value for crop production

SAM Khalifa, EH Elshafiey, AA Shetaia, AAA El-Wahed… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There is a rising demand for food security in the face of threats posed by a
growing human population. Bees as an insect play a crucial role in crop pollination …

Delivering integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM)

PA Egan, LV Dicks, HMT Hokkanen, JA Stenberg - Trends in Plant Science, 2020 - cell.com
The need to reduce pollinator exposure to harmful pesticides has led to calls to expedite the
adoption of integrated pest management (IPM). We make the case that IPM is not explicitly …

The role of flies as pollinators of horticultural crops: An Australian case study with worldwide relevance

DF Cook, SC Voss, JTD Finch, RC Rader, JM Cook… - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
Australian horticulture relies heavily on the introduced managed honey bee, Apis mellifera
Linnaeus 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae), to pollinate crops. Given the risks associated with …

The effect of protective covers on pollinator health and pollination service delivery

LK Kendall, LJ Evans, M Gee, TJ Smith, V Gagic… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Protective covers (ie, glasshouses, netting enclosures, and polytunnels) are increasingly
used in crop production to enhance crop quality, yield, and production efficiency. However …

The Honey Bee Apis mellifera: An Insect at the Interface between Human and Ecosystem Health

G Papa, R Maier, A Durazzo, M Lucarini, IK Karabagias… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Apis mellifera Linnaeus (1758), a honey bee, is a eusocial insect widely
known for its role in pollination, an essential ecosystem service for plant biodiversity, and …

Impacts of wildflower interventions on beneficial insects in fruit crops: A review

MT Fountain - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Declines in insects, including pollinators, are leading to public pressure for
governments and landowners to intervene. Although integrated pest management, used to …

Spatial monitoring and insect behavioural analysis using computer vision for precision pollination

MN Ratnayake, DC Amarathunga, A Zaman… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Insects are the most important global pollinator of crops and play a key role in maintaining
the sustainability of natural ecosystems. Insect pollination monitoring and management are …

Toward evidence-based decision support systems to optimize pollination and yields in highbush blueberry

LW DeVetter, S Chabert, MO Milbrath… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) is a globally important fruit crop that depends on insect-
mediated pollination to produce quality fruit and commercially viable yields. Pollination …

Native bees with floral sonication behaviour can achieve high‐performance pollination of highbush blueberry in Chile

B Cortés‐Rivas, C Smith‐Ramirez… - Agricultural and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Blueberry is one of the most relevant buzz‐pollinated crops worldwide and Chile is the most
important global producer of fresh blueberries during wintertime in the Northern …

Investigating the inoculum dynamics of Cladosporium on the surface of raspberry fruits and in the air

LH Farwell, M Papp‐Rupar, G Deakin… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Raspberry production is under threat from the emerging fungal pathogenic genus
Cladosporium. We used amplicon‐sequencing, coupled with qPCR, to investigate how fruit …