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Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety - Apidologie (link.springer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are these the same almond farms that also kill swaths of bees from the pesticides etc they use?

Is this a damage control article or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No, it looks like a nature-based solution experiment. These are important and have wider consequences that benefit general ecological studies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I should also clarify that agroecological studies like this get a lot of funding for commerce reasons but do have a lot of implications for biodiversity and rewilding work as obviously healthy, happy environments get more yield. Coral reefs also exhibit similar behaviour with sound.