Wild Pollinators

Wild pollinators are often found everywhere in pollinated flowers by insects. In the United States, the value of wild pollen vector service is estimated at $ 3 billion per year.

Wild pollen vector services are free and encouraged by low cost measures to improve the availability of nesting and non-crop food resources. More and more producers, especially organic producers, have chosen to encourage wild pollinators in their lands.

There are two advantages of wild pollination protection. First, producers receive various pollinator services without financial expense (or relatively few). The second advantage is that many wild plants in a wider ecosystem are providing important ecosystem services (eg clean air, water) - many of these plants grow breeding in wild We depend on pollinators

Losey, J. E. And Vaughn, M. 2006. Economic value of ecological services offered by insects. BioScience 56: 311-323

Pollination of crops by bees, flies, beetles and butterflies is a very precious ecosystem service. In order to compensate for the loss of diversity and the abundant wild pollinators in agricultural landscapes, farmers are currently pollinating many crops for bee's control colonies. Bees are often considered effective substitutes for the loss of wild pollen vectors. It is not so, scientific papers on February 28 are showing. In order to measure the effectiveness of bees and wild insects against pollinated crops, scientists measured the frequency of flowering of these pollinators in agricultural landscapes and whether these visits resulted in successful pollination. Successful pollination is indicated by the amount of pollen deposited on the flower and the proportion of mature fruit and seed flowers. In this study, sample surveys were conducted on 600 farmlands on each continent except Antarctica.

It is no doubt that pollination of insects is an important service for wild and agricultural systems. Without insect pollinators, about a third of the world's crops will bloom and decline and it will be ridiculous. Unmanaged local bees provide important pollination services for many important crops. Learn about Cornell's research on wild bees. We have two goals: to introduce ongoing research on wild and other pollinators at Cornell University and a list of countries on the biology, importance and protection information page of wild pollinators It is to provide.