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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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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months 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?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.