The hive compartment with brood Proper pollination is essential for optimal fruit set and production. In the past, growers relied on honeybees, manual pollination or plant growth regulators, depending on the crop being grown.
Manual pollination is time consuming and difficult to manage.
In autumn, a bumblebee colony dies out and only the young, mated queens hibernate each separately in the soil. In spring, a queen starts a new colony. She lays a first batch of eggs, from which larvae emerge after 4 to 5 days. In the beginning, the queen has to do all the foraging by herself. The larvae are fed with a mixture of nectar and pollen gathered from flowers.