Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Mikko Tiusanen, MSc, investigated in his doctoral dissertation the structure and functioning of plants and their pollinators in Arctic regions.
"Up north, there are very few Apidae, such as bees and bumblebees, so other insect groups bear the main responsibility for pollination," explains Tiusanen.
In his study, Tiusanen found that relatives of the ubiquitous housefly had a central role. These members of the Muscidae family are important pollinators, whose abundance impacts the seed production of northern plants.
Flowering in the Arctic occurs in the few weeks after the snow has melted. The subsequent profusion of flowers causes intensive competition for the pollination services provided by insects.
The abundant mountain avens with its attractive flowers hoards most of the pollinator visits, which leaves the pollination of rare and less attractive flowers particularly inadequate. At the height of mountain avens' blooming time, even their own seed production suffers from the competition for pollinators within the species itself.
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @07:56AM (1 child)
https://inhabitat.com/philips-unveils-sexy-concept-bee-keeping-gadget/ [inhabitat.com]
https://www.honeyflow.com/ [honeyflow.com]
Why not?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:21AM
A father and son lived in poverty for ten years while they developed Flow Hive, at some point they were couch-surfing with relatives.
Their initial Indiegogo campaign raised twelve million because they demoed at the office of an Australian local paper, then its story got picked up world-wide.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]