More than a Wanna-Bee Joe Kovach inserts a tray of Trichoderma into a hive.
Bees exit the hive by walking through the helpful fungus.
The fungus prevents grey mold in the strawberry flowers bees visit. Strawberry growers need ways to manage gray mold with fewer pesticides while flowers open and fruit ripens in succession. You've seen, no doubt, a strawberry completely covered with gray fuzz. If so, you've encountered gray mold, or Botrytis cinerea. Serious infestations of Botrytis can cut growers' yields in half, but IPM research is flowering into great solutions for strawberry growers.