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Pollination
Science programme: Optimising fruit & crop growth
Our honey bee research team has wide experience in pollination research and education including:
Insect pollination of crops
- Pollination deposition studies
- Honey bee behaviour, flower visiting behaviour, movement between flowers, flower recognition and attractiveness
- Honey bee colony management, hive strengths, placement, pollen trapping, sugar syrup and pollen feeding
- Behaviour of bumble bees and solitary bees
- Bee attractants
- Levels of cross pollination.
Artificial pollination
- Design of devices for collecting and applying pollen, usage patterns, pollen deposition, testing efficacies.
Assessing pollination
- Fruit weights, seed counts, pollinator assessments.
Polliniser assessments
- Measuring effects of polliniser distributions and densities.
Training
- The team has presented a large number of seminars, workshops, scientific and technical articles and manuals. We have provided training sessions for growers and beekeepers providing pollination services within New Zealand and in a number of other countries.
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