{"id":4503,"date":"2015-12-03T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:28:17","slug":"dont-forget-the-other-pollinators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/dont-forget-the-other-pollinators\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t forget the other pollinators<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4504\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/15-17092-small1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4504\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4504\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/15-17092-small1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A wasp (Synoeca sp., Vespidae) visiting a passion fruit flower in Colombia. (Image credit: Catalina Guti\u00e9rrez-Chac\u00f3n, University of Freiburg, Germany)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wasp (Synoeca sp., Vespidae) visiting a passion fruit flower in Colombia. (Image credit: Catalina Guti\u00e9rrez-Chac\u00f3n, University of Freiburg, Germany)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Butterflies, wasps, beetles and flies might not be as effective pollinators as bees but new research shows their impact shouldn\u2019t be discounted. Non-bee pollinators visit more flowers than bees so that even if they\u2019re not such effective pollinators, their rates pollination are similar to bees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The analysis of 39 field studies revealed there is greater fruit production when plants were visited by both bee and non-bee pollinators. This suggests non-bee pollinators could provide additional benefits. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors believe the contribution of non bees on pollination should be considered as they could provide some insurance against the decline of bee populations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1517092112\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/em>\u00a0on <strong>November 30<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romina Rader, School of Environment and Rural Science, University of New England, Australia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cory S. Sheffield, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, Saskatchewan<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Butterflies, wasps, beetles and flies might not be as effective pollinators as bees but new research shows their impact shouldn\u2019t be discounted. Non-bee pollinators visit more flowers than bees so that even if they\u2019re not such effective pollinators, their rates pollination are similar to bees. The analysis of 39 field studies revealed there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2375,113,1445,171,40],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-bees","tag-biology","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-insects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1aD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}