Shimla April, 12; Apple growers are worried as orchards are flowering but lack of pollinators may hit the prospects of good crop this season. Honey bees, insects and butterflies are the pollinators which play a vital role and carry pollens from one flower to other. More pollinators ensure better crop. Sudden drop in temperature, cold and rain in the last few days have killed the pollinators. Fruit growers are now praying for good weather conditions so that the late flowering on trees becomes successful.
Now, fruit growers are depending on artificial methods of pollination. They have placed boxes of honey bees in orchards to speed up the process. Exchange of pollen is required for flowers to turn fruit.
Growers are hanging flowers branch of different pollinisers varieties and placed in a polythene bag and the bag is then filled with water for easy pollination as insects sit on them and transfer pollen to other flowers. During this process, these insects are harmless to everyone else around them. The real problem could occur when they have finished transferring the pollen and they have uninvited themselves into your home. These stinging insects could then impact the lives of the people inside the house, so this is when you should think about calling for professional help. This NY terminix company, along with many others in different areas will be able to get rid of the problem inside your house so that they can carry on doing their jobs outside in transferring pollen over to over flowers.
The apple growers during plantation of apple trees also committed mistakes by not caring to plant polllinisers near apple plants like commercial, kali devi, golden, red gold, jonathan. They only lay emphasis to plant royal delicious and red delicious to earn good prices in the market, as a result causing a shortage of polliniser varieties in the apple orchards.
The use of different kinds of fungicides and insecticides to control the spreading of canker, scab and scale by horticulturists also kills many species of insects and bees. Orchards in the upper areas are in the initial stage of flowering. The earth has now enough moisture. If sky turns clear for at least two weeks, growers will reap a bumper crop.
News Source Tribune India
