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 …

Local actions to tackle a global problem: A multidimensional assessment of the pollination crisis in Chile

L Vieli, MM Murúa, L Flores-Prado, GO Carvallo… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the last decades, pollinators have drastically declined as a consequence of
anthropogenic activities that have local and global impacts. The food industry has been …

Wild floral visitors are more important than honeybees as pollinators of avocado crops

JL Celis-Diez, CB García, JJ Armesto, S Abades… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wild insects provide pollination services in agroecosystems. Avocado is an economically
important crop grown in the Chilean Mediterranean climate region and exported worldwide …

Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) ability to pollinate Hass avocado trees within paired tree enclosures

DF Cook, MS Tufail, SC Voss, RA Deyl… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Avocado pollination remains a major focus for producers as fruit‐set is typically very low
(less than 1%). Most avocado producers in Australia utilize honey bees (Apis mellifera) to …

Outcrossing rate and fruit yield of Hass avocado trees decline at increasing distance from a polliniser cultivar

SJ Trueman, J Nichols, MB Farrar, HM Wallace… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Optimal fruit production from many tree crops relies on the transfer of cross-pollen between
trees of different cultivars rather than the transfer of self-pollen between trees of the same …

Floral interventions enhance flower visitor communities and pollination services in moringa plantations

S Dhandapani, M Pakkirisamy… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pollination is a crucial ecosystem service contributing to global food security. Moringa
(Moringa oleifera) is an economically important tropical crop, mostly cultivated by …

Diversity and relative abundance of insect pollinators in Moroccan agroecosystems

I El Abdouni, P Lhomme, S Christmann… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Agroecosystems are often impoverished ecosystems, but they can host diverse communities
of insects which provide ecosystem services. Specifically, crops may benefit from insect …

Fishing for flies: testing the efficacy of" stink stations" for promoting blow flies as pollinators in mango orchards

JT Finch, AM Gilpin, JM Cook - Journal of …, 2023 - researchdirect.westernsydney.edu …
Pollinator communities are composed of diverse groups of insects, with radically different life
histories and resource needs. Blow flies are known to visit a variety of economically …

Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions

NE Rafferty, CT Cosma - Journal of Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many nature‐based solutions (NBS), including urban greenspaces, urban agriculture and
agroforestry, depend upon animal‐pollinated plants to sequester carbon or to provide other …

A roadmap for designing semi-natural habitat: Plantings that benefit pollinators and people, not pests

BG Howlett, MA Broussard, N Bordes, S Graham… - Advances in Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
For growers of insect-pollinated crops, protection or creation of on-farm semi-natural habitats
(SNHs) is often recommended as a strategy for increasing pollinator diversity to achieve …