Approximately three quarters of our major food crops are pollinated. Here we will look at how wild bees provide insurance against ongoing honey bee losses.
This video shares impacts from a Penn State Extension beginning farmer project to establish on-farm apple demonstration plots, called "Models for the Future".
This full-color, 86-page guide with over 100 photographs focuses on balancing pest management in orchards with the protection of managed and wild pollinators and beneficial insects.
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ArticlesWho are Our Pollinators?Approximately three quarters of our major food crops are pollinated. Here we will look at how wild bees provide insurance against ongoing honey bee losses.
ArticlesOrchard Pollination - The Role of Pollen BeesWild and managed non-honey bee species have long supplemented honeybee pollination in fruit orchards.
VideosBeginning Farmer "Models for the Future"This video shares impacts from a Penn State Extension beginning farmer project to establish on-farm apple demonstration plots, called "Models for the Future".
Guides and PublicationsManaging Eastern Apple Orchards for Pollinators and Other Beneficial Insects ProductionThis full-color, 86-page guide with over 100 photographs focuses on balancing pest management in orchards with the protection of managed and wild pollinators and beneficial insects.