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Farmers breed bees in their fruit orchards primarily to enhance pollination, which is essential for fruit production. Bees, particularly honeybees, are efficient pollinators, helping to transfer pollen from flower to flower, thereby increasing fruit yield and quality. By maintaining healthy bee populations, farmers can ensure better crop productivity and improve the overall health of their orchards. Additionally, breeding local bee strains can adapt them to specific environmental conditions, further optimizing pollination efficiency.
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Why do farmers breed honey bees?
Farmers don't usually breed honey bees, but they do need them for pollination purposes depending on the type of farm. For example, a livestock farmer doesn't need bees but a fruit farmer definitely does need bees.
Do bees pollinate orange trees?
Yes. Bees pollinate most flowers and trees. One of a bees favorite places is a orchard where fruit trees are everywhere.
Why do Apple farmers purchase bees?
Apple farmers need bees to pollinate their apple trees. Where bees have been eradicated by pesticides, more bees, or hand pollination, are necessary for the trees to bear fruit.
Why do farmers breed bees into there fruit orchards?
Bees are important pollinators. In fact, there is something of a crisis in agriculture because bee populations are declining in the face of "colony collapse disorder." Unless a cure is found, many vegetable products may become scarce and expensive. BTW, "THEIR fruit orchards," the ones over THERE.
Why do farmers breed bees in their fruit orchards answers in detail?
Bees are one of our most important pollinators and the major pollinator of fruit flowers. They are also "friendly" pollinators. In exchange for the nectar they give us honey. As beautiful as most butterflies are, when we give them nectar, they give us caterpillars which eat the crop.
What would happen in an orchard if no bees or insects lived in the area?
The blossom would not be cross-pollinated so no fruit would grow. In the Sichuan region of China, pear orchards have been rapidly expanded, but over-use of pesticides has killed off all bees and the farmers, together with thousands of villagers, have to pollinate their trees by hand in order to get a crop.
Why do formers breed bees in their fruit orchards?
Bees are used to pollinate the trees. As they fly from flower to flower, from tree to tree, pollen attached to the bees is transferred between trees which pollinates them, allowing them to produce fruit.
What are three differences in orchard mason bees and honeybees?
Three differences between Orchard Mason Bees and Honeybees are: 1. Honeybees are more aggessive. 2. Orchard Mason Bees live in mud holes while Honeybees live in hives. 3. Orchard Mason Bees sting less frequently than Honeybees.
Aside from honey what is another benefit that farmers get from bees?
Honey bees benefit the farmer through pollination of many fruit, nut and vegetable crops.
Why do Farmers use selective breeding in Corn Plants?
Farmers do this so that the bees can fertilize the blossoms. If this doesn't happen, the apples will not form.
Why are hoey bees important if you want to keep growing plants?
Honey bees pollinate plants. If you were a fruit farmer, you might have to depend on honey bees brought to you by a bee farmer to pollinate your crop. There aren't enough bees or other insects in a given area to pollinate all of a fruit farmers crop without importing honey bees from another area.
Why do farmers choose to have honey bees pollinate their apples as opposed to other bee species?
Honey bees live in a colony of around 50,000 bees in the season so there are more of them when needed. Bumble bees might have only 50 bees in a nest but are still used when growing fruit in polytunnels.
