The hidden beauty of pollination

Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "Sapphire’s first try of pear (Pyrus communis)! Most pear varieties are self-infertile, and therefore require insect vectors for pollination and resulting fruit set. In Australia, pear, like most introduced crops, is primarily pollinated by Apis mellifera, also an introduced species. Honey bees don’t like pear flowers very much though, as they have low nectar volumes with low sugar concentration. There also was research on Packham’s Triumph pear flowers in Australia