Gordon Wardell is a biologist working
for a large almond producer in the u.s.
each year it is increasingly difficult
for Wardell to find enough honeybees to
pollinate his crops so he's working on
his own
pollination solution now here we have
the cocoons of the blue orchard bees
these are mostly female cocoons and
they're fully mature adults inside the
inside the cocoons
and they develop in the summer and then
they need 150 days of winter diapause
and so we give them in the cold room 150
days of cold weather and that coincides
almost exactly with when almond
pollination starts
Wow girl
how she's ready to go out and start
pollinating pollination by the blue
orchard bee is still in an experimental
stage in agriculture but first tests
have shown each blue orchard bee visits
50 times as many flowers as a honeybee a
pollination service that is badly needed
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