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Bees hold the key to Unlocking Increased Crop Yields

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Annemarie Gaskin

What’s all the buzz about? Researchers from the University of Adelaide are mapping the activity of honeybees and native pollinators in areas of revegetation and native vegetation around different crops in South Australia. They will create a short-list of the most useful pollinating species and identify the plants used by the pollinators as sources of […]

Posted in Conservation Science and Technology, Plant Conservation, Plant Conservation Biology | Tagged Almond Board of Australia, Andrew Lowe, Andy Lowe, Apple and Pear Growers of SA, bee polination, bees, crops, Department of Environment, Environment Institute, Greening Australia, Lucerne Australia, native plants, Native Vegetation Council, O’Connor NRM, Plant Conservation Biology, pollinate, pollination, Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA), Professor Andrew Lowe, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, South Australian Apiarist Association, Trees For Life, University of Adelaide, Water and Natural Resources |

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What makes locusts swarm?

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Corri Baker

Locusts are invading South Australia, what is it that turns the simple solitary cricket into these ravaging swarms of locusts? Professor Steve Simpson from the University of Sydney has been studying the behaviour of crickets and has found that crowding and touching crickets on certain parts of their bodies turns them into locusts. To find […]

Posted in News, Podcast | Tagged crickets, crops, food shortages, locust plague, locusts, Riverland, Steve Simpson, swarms |

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