Highly diverse flower strips promote natural enemies more in annual field crops

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2 pointsPaulHoule4 comments

Not being in agriculture, it took me a bit to understand that "natural enemies" refers to the natural enemies of pests threatening crops. Not the natural enemies of the crops themselves.

Good to know that diversity promotes growth!

Suggested replacement article:

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-species-natural-enemies-pests....

(No paywall, and far more readable for the layperson.)

But either way, the research is a meta-analysis. Hopefully the Danes are busily experimenting, to figure out what % of a field should be planted with which flowers, to maximize the yield of the actual crops.

... and if YOShInOn and I had posted that link we'd be getting a complaint about the terrible ads on that site (lately they make me wait 30 seconds while I don't look or listen to a video about kidney disease.)

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