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This phys.org article says: > Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees, oh and bramble is important. The underlying paper is an easy enough read that yo
by __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
This phys.org article says:
> Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees, oh and bramble is important.
The underlying paper is an easy enough read that you probably don't need phys.org: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281810 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
It says:
- Many different species rely on bramble [e.g. raspberry, blackberry, etc...]
- Bramble fruits can grow twice as large if the flower was visited by multiple insects, which improves bramble's ability to support its many species
- Moths are an outsized contributor to the pollination of bramble, and therefore to supporting those many species
- So conservation efforts should focus on things that uniquely help moths, like limiting light pollution
Given the prevalence of pollinators that are hyper specialized to what they pollinate, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that general purpose pollinator efficiency is both a useless metric, and not what was studied here.