(University of Göttingen) Mass-flowering crops such as oilseed rape or faba bean provide valuable sources of food for bees, which, in turn, contribute to the pollination of both the crops and nearby wild plants. But not every arable crop that produces flowers is visited by the same bees. A team from Göttingen University and the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) in Braunschweig investigated how the habitat diversity of the agricultural landscape and the cultivation of different mass-flowering crops affect wild bees.
