Why choose Polyfly hoverflies?
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Our hoverflies offer key advantages to optimize pollination across various crop types and conditions:
- Environmental versatility: perform efficiently in greenhouses, tunnels, mesh structures, and open fields—even under wind or cloud cover.
- Generalist pollinators: low floral selectivity allows them to pollinate a wide range of crops.
- High pollen efficiency:
- Hairy bodies ensure high pollen load and transfer.
- Extendable mouthparts allow access to a wide variety of open flowers.
- High visitation rate: capable of visiting hundreds of flowers per day, ensuring effective cross-pollination.
- No discrimination based on flower color or stigma size, making them highly effective in crops with diverse floral morphologies.
With these benefits, Polyfly hoverflies stand out as an innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective solution for modern agricultural pollination.
Factors Behind Their High Effectiveness
- Generalist pollinators: wide floral range.
- Constant and efficient foraging: frequent and sustained visits.
- Hairy body: increases pollen load and transfer.
- Easy and safe handling: non-stinging, stingless, and pathogen-free.
- Climatic adaptability:
- QUEENFLY®: active between 10 and 30 °C, even under cloudy skies.
- GOLDFLY®: active from 16 to over 36 °C, ideal for warm climates.
- Light adaptability: suitable for indoor farming and under LED lighting.