Mid Canterbury's Kai Tegels checks out drone fly larvae specimens during the Drone Flies and Pollination session at the Foundation for Arable Research’s arable research in action day recently. “So when you’ve got weather that is highly changeable, you’ve got time that honey bees aren’t active.”“The drone fly has really good potential. Systems to mass-rear drone flies in fields, next to crops, were being developed. At the arable research in action day there was a 5m long, 50cm deep and 60cm wide trench dug into the ground and layered with substrates to help activate drone fly production. The drone flies were attracted to decaying material and could produce hundreds of eggs each.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 18, 2019 15:33 UTC