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John Kidman

Apples, bees, mites and the pollination gauntlet

Blue Mountains apple orchards rely on both native stingless and introduced western honey bees. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

There must be a limit to watching something over and over but Australian researchers are yet to reach it despite painstakingly observing almost 70,000 bees doing what they do best.

It's hoped the three years spent monitoring the foraging behaviour of invertebrate flower visitors will help apple farmers predict which kinds of bees are likely to pollinate their orchards based on their proximity to native forest, disturbances to habitat and weather patterns.

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