To go further: What is robotic pollination? Robotic pollination is an emerging technology aimed at replacing or supplementing natural pollinators, such as bees, with robots. These devices, often ...

INRA and CNRS French scientists and a UFZ German scientist found that the worldwide economic value of the pollination service provided by insect pollinators, bees mainly, was €153 billion in ...

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

The implementation of these specific habitats has increased the presence of pollinating insects and other beneficial arthropods in the cultivation areas covered by the project. Likewise, farmers have ...

These data, consisting of over 10,000 bee encounters, were then compared to a database of almost 2,000 historical public and private insect collections amassed by researchers. With the first records ...

First, they wanted to see how the light affected whether pollinators visited the meadows. So the scientists walked around a specific area in the meadows using a hand net to collect all insects ...