Living Lab Ontario - surveying our native pollinators (Webinar)
Citation
Des Marteaux, L. and Skevington, J. 2021. Living Lab Ontario - surveying our native pollinators (Living Lab Webinar, Oct 18, 2021).
Résumé en langage clair
Through the Living Lab Ontario project, Dr. Des Marteaux is working with severalcollaborators to identify the main habitat requirements of our native pollinators; the aimbeing to improve agricultural landscape design for better pollination services and sustainability. Specifically, how landscape features (forest patches, hedgerows, and grassy field margins) affect the abundance and diversity of pollinators and other beneficial insects on agricultural lands. This year, ‘Malaise’ insect traps were set up onor near the fields of Living Lab farmer cooperators Henry Denotter, Ken Laing,and Greg Vermeersch, and on farms across Norfolk and Windsor-Essex counties to monitor bees and beneficial flies from May to July.
Résumé
Through the Living Lab Ontario project, Dr. Des Marteaux is working with severalcollaborators to identify the main habitat requirements of our native pollinators; the aimbeing to improve agricultural landscape design for better pollination services and sustainability. Specifically, how landscape features (forest patches, hedgerows, and grassy field margins) affect the abundance and diversity of pollinators and other beneficial insects on agricultural lands. This year, ‘Malaise’ insect traps were set up onor near the fields of Living Lab farmer cooperators Henry Denotter, Ken Laing,and Greg Vermeersch, and on farms across Norfolk and Windsor-Essex counties to monitor bees and beneficial flies from May to July.