As the bushfire crisis across Australia go on , so too does the terror to wildlife include bees which are all important for successful pollenation .
other appraisal has indicated that more than 10,000 honey bee urticaria have been destroyed across the Australian mainland and around 800 hive and 115 lens nucleus hive of the unique Ligurian subspecies of honey bee on Kangaroo Island .
The island is renowned for its flowered multifariousness and distinctive tasting honey , being home to the only universe of Ligurian bees in the world free of major disease and biosecurity threats .
Managed European Honey Beehives devastated by bush fire
Hort Innovation Research and Development Manager for Pollination , Ashley Zamek , said the RDC was working with several enquiry institution across the area to evaluate the viability of substitute or complementary louse pollinator to ease the insistency on honey bees and their keepers .
“ This enquiry is now more important than ever considering the loss of such a meaning turn of hives during this ruinous bush attack season , ” she said .
Ms Zamek said promising preliminary findings had already been made in area of substitute pollenation where native stingless bee were successfully introduced into protected cropping environments .
She sound out research worker are also make for to diversify landscapes to kick upstairs other supporting native insect such as wasps , beetle , birds and the like .
“ And in a interior first enquiry project , we have partnered with the Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development in Western Australia to trial the use of fly for pollenation , ” she said .
Professor James Cook from Western Sydney University , who guide several pollenation focalize projects for Hort Innovation , articulate these projects are await to realize what the natural pollinator are doing and how that can be strengthen to honest support industry .
“ prompt forward we ’ll see increase acknowledgement of the use of godforsaken pollinators and pollinators other than Apis mellifera , ” he tell .
“ What our studies are showing at the second is that insects such as native bee , wasps , flies and more are already playing quite a big role in pollination , but now we ’re starting to get reliable data that demonstrate just what kind of part they are making . ”
“ If you put together all the pollination work we ’re doing around the country , what we ’re wait to do is to be able to allow for data for resilient pollenation service that do n’t rely too much on any one situation or one species – lead to a better understanding of all the different choice and how we can manage the landscape or the protected cropping environment so that we can harness these rude pollinator and get upright pollination for crop output . ”
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