Insect-friendly flowering plant mixtures for private gardens: how attractive are these to pollinators?

Vor 6 Tagen

Frick AG, Aargau, Schweiz Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau FiBL Vollzeit CHF 30'000 - CHF 50'000 pro Jahr

Art des Angebots: Masterarbeit

Background

Beneficial insects provide ecosystem services such as pollination and agricultural pest control, with a proven economic value. The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats caused by agricultural intensification and urbanization have been correlated with a widespread insect decline which affects beneficial insects too. Flowering plants in urban gardens have the potential to counteract this negative trend. The provision of foraging resources and nesting sites is essential for sustaining the abundance and diversity of beneficial insects. Although a single garden may be too small to be ecologically relevant, together, urban gardens can be relevant as food source and in providing refuge for insects in urban areas, as it has been demonstrated for wild bees.

This research project has been commissioned by one of Switzerland's largest retail and wholesale company. The company aims at introducing on the market new flowering plant mixtures for its clients (mainly private gardeners), labeling the products as "insect-friendly". This research aims to test the insect-friendliness of different flowering plant mixtures, including mixtures with edible flowers, on wildlife pollinators. The goal of the MSc thesis project is to assess whether these different flower mixtures differ in their attractiveness to pollinators.

Approach

You will work on FiBL site, recording pollinator visitation on the different flower mixtures. You will learn how to monitor pollinator visitation with software developed to study insect behavior and will also learn how to monitor plant development.

Contact

Dani Lucas-Barbosa & Regine Kern-Fässler

Starting date

April/May 2026

Note

This is a non-paid opportunity, and FiBL offers free accommodation in one of our guest houses with shared facilities - if needed and available during the period. FiBL also offers discounts for students in our great organic mensa

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Kontakt

Dani Lucas-Barbosa

Dr.

Departement für NutzpflanzenwissenschaftenDepartement für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften

FiBL Schweiz

Ackerstrasse 113

CH-5070 Frick

Kontakt

Regine Kern Fässler

Dipl.-Ing. in Hortikultur FH

Departement für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften

FiBL Schweiz

Ackerstrasse 113

CH-5070 Frick

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