Using bumblebee pollination can not only improve fruit quality and increase yield and income, but also replace manual pollination for various facility-cultivated flowering crops under suitable conditions. Currently, bumblebee pollination technology can be applied to facility-cultivated fruit and vegetable crops such as tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and cherries.
The advantages of bumblebee pollination
The use of bumblebees for pollination can completely free people from the tedious process of artificial hormones spraying flowers, saving a lot of labor time and reducing labor intensity. Each bumblebee can pollinate 2000-5000 flowers per day (about 10 seconds per flower).
Using bumblebees for pollination can not only improve fruit shape, but also enhance the taste of the fruit.
Bumblebees can completely avoid the production of hollow fruits caused by improper use of hormones, and by using bumblebees for pollination, the seeds in the fruit can be fully developed, thereby increasing the weight of the fruit. Pollinating tomatoes and eggplants with bumblebees can increase yield by more than 10% (without the use of foliar fertilizers, yield can be increased by 20% -30%).
After bumblebee pollination, the petals will quickly fall off naturally, eliminating the breeding ground for bacteria on the remaining flowers.
