The Canadian tech firm using bees to apply fungicides

The Canadian tech firm using bees to apply fungicides

One of the hives designed by BVT (Bee Vectoring Technologies) in situ.

With so much attention on pollinators, it was probably inevitable that some clever agricultural innovator would ask the question, why not use bees to deliver biological control agents to flowers and certain crops?

It was the team at Bee Vectoring Technologies in Canada that spotted the opportunity, and they have since been recognised with awards for innovation in the fields of precision application technology and biocontrol.

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