Resumen de Building a backup bee. (Cover story)
The article focuses on an experiment being conducted by Gordon Wardell, director of bee biology for Wonderful Co., for the past eight years to develop an alternative insect to replace the honeybee using a series of huge cages that span 20 acres by a vast pistachio grove. It highlights Osmia lignaria, a native mason bee known as the blue orchard bee, chosen to be developed by Wardell.
