Source: Alaina Dismukes, FARM PROGRESS, 1/22/21


Honeybees are suffering, in some cases, a pretty dramatic decline, but recent research shows that cotton and soybean provide valuable nutrition to pollinators throughout months when pollen is scarce. During the 2021 online Beltwide Cotton Conference, Sally Taylor, assistant professor of entomology at Virginia Tech University, presented research on how honeybees have forage opportunities from some row crops in the summer months.

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