Скачать или смотреть They Mocked His $400 Insect Mansions Until Harvest Proved 400% Higher Yield

Santa Clara Valley, California, 1879. Every orchard's nightmare: trees bloom beautifully, then flowers drop without producing fruit. Nobody knows why.

Samuel Bridger, Yale naturalist with zero farming experience, spends $400 on 50 beehives. Experienced farmers mock him: "Fruit comes from trees, not insects. You're wasting money on university theory."

Harvest 1879: Samuel's trees produce 280 pounds per tree. His neighbors: 70 pounds per tree. Same soil. Same water. Only difference: bees.

The invisible problem revealed: wild bees had collapsed as orchards replaced native habitat. Without pollinators, flowers couldn't set fruit. Farmers blamed everything except what they couldn't see.

This is how one scientist's "insect mansions" solved agriculture's invisible crisis.

#Bees #Pollination #California #Science #AgricultureMystery #1879

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