Sentences with phrase «pollinators of almond trees»
In a study published this year researchers from Williams's and Kremen's labs found that honeybees became even more effective pollinators of almond trees in the presence of both various native species and blue orchard bees, a managed species.
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«Whole Foods Market sells a lot of almonds, but most people don't realize that almond trees can't produce nuts without pollinators, or that there aren't enough bees to sustain the demand on their own,» said Errol Schweizer, global grocery coordinator for Whole Foods Market.
It should be noted, first of all, that there are very few native pollinators that could match up to the industrial - scale pollination efforts of the honeybee — but that might just be one more reason why vast monocultures of almond trees, or anything else, can not be a long - term proposition.