Combined pollination and crop protection could increase yields

摘要

The first issue is to understand whatpollination is, how it contributes toproduction and the importance of managed and wild pollinating insects, in the process. This article describes how managed pollinators can be used to deliver natural biological control agents to flowering crops to suppress diseases and insect pests.Pollination is the transfer of pollen grains from the male to the female parts of the flower. Pollen has to be moved around by either living agents (mainly insects) or non-living forces (mainly wind). Insects, and other animals that perform pollen movements, are pollinators, and there are four main insect pollinator groups: bees and wasps, flies, butterflies and moths, and beetles.