A kind of bee attractant and its application and method for luring bees to pollinate tomato flowers

Abstract

The invention provides a honeybee attractant and its application and a method for luring honeybees to pollinate tomato flowers, wherein the honeybee attractant is selected from nonanal, 1-ethyl-4-cumene and 4-ethylbenzaldehyde one or more of . Compared with common aromatic substances or flower juices or syrups of different plants, the bee attractant of the present invention has stronger specificity for tomatoes and bees. The present invention uses the bee attractant to carry out odor learning training for bee pollination bee colonies, which can effectively increase the flower visiting rate of bees, increase tomato output, reduce labor intensity and avoid other diseases and insect pests caused by spraying the attractant.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of bee pollination of crops, in particular to a bee attractant and its application and a method for luring bees to pollinate tomato flowers. Background technique [0002] Tomato is a large vegetable species with a wide planting area. In a relatively closed facility environment, it is necessary to artificially introduce pollinator species to pollinate tomatoes. In Europe, North America and other regions where the commercial bumblebee market is mature, bumblebee pollination has become an essential measure in the facility tomato planting industry. Although bumblebees have great advantages in pollinating facility tomatoes, there are still major problems in actual production: (1) It is difficult for a single pollinator bee species to satisfy the facility tomato markets around the world. In most countries and regions that cannot realize the commercial application of native bumblebees, they need to rely on import...

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Problems solved by technology

Although bumblebees have great advantages in pollination of facility tomatoes, there are still major problems in actual production: (1) It is difficult for a single pollinator bee species to satisfy the facility tomato market around the world

However, in actual production, in the process of bees pollinating facility tomatoes, there are phenomena such as poor enthusiasm for nesting activities, low flower visiting efficiency, and unsatisfactory pollination effect, so bee attractants have emerged as the times require

[0004] In the prior art, the attractant formulations are mostly ordinary aromatic components, which are not targeted to different flower-visiting insects of different crops

Or the attractant formula is mostly flower juice or syrup of different plants, and the attractant is sprayed on the plant buds to be pollinated, but the attractant containing a large amount of sugar is sprayed on the plant, which is easy to cause various diseases of the plant. Also attracts other pests

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