Meta-Analysis: Flower Strips With Two Or More Species May Reduce Pesticides

Meta-Analysis: Flower Strips With Two Or More Species May Reduce Pesticides

A new paper has found that flower strips along fields and ditches may be more than just a gimmick that lets people feel like they are improving the environment or saving bees. They may attract pests that eat pests that eat crops.If so, this could help Europe, which has declared it wants to reduce pesticides 50% by 2030 but found its efforts stymied when they had to engage in limited boycotts of its primary food exporter, Russia. Even though they…