Pollination in Plant Communities: Who Does it Best?

Dr Gavin Ballantyne

Pollination Crisis

● Threats to pollinators

– Habitat Loss

– Pesticides

– Disease

● Threat to pollinators = threat to food security

● Kenyan honeybees doing well, but for how long?

● Understanding of how pollinator communities operate essential

● Aims of the project:

– Identify which are the key pollinator species in the environment

– Determine how vulnerable the plant community is to pollinator loss

● Prof Pat Willmer, Dr Katherine Baldock, Joanna Robins King, Stephen Ekale Ekuam