You might think blowflies are just a pesky insect, but they could be the back-up plan for farmers who rely on bees for crop pollination.
Blowflies can operate at slightly lower temperatures to bees, which is an additional benefit of this insect as a pollinator, particularly in colder avocado-growing regions like southern Western Australia and Tasmania.
Of course, blowflies don't have the added advantage of the sweet by-product that bees make — honey — which presents a challenge of making fly pollinators economically viable.A major advantage of having bees as pollinators is that they live in hives, so they can be fairly easily controlled and moved around if need be.
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