New article, the fourth in a row in issue 30/2017, the international scientific journal Icelandic Agricultural Sciences has come out.
This is a short article and in Icelandic it would be called "Possible effects of the spread of lupine on pollinator communities in Iceland“. The study was carried out in Heiðmörk in the summer of 2015 in an area characterized by mosaics of inland forests, peatlands and dense lupine meadows. Fertilizing insects that were seen were, among other things, the honey fly family, the hairy fly family, the swarm fly family, the house fly family, the housefly (striped flies) and the beetles. The study revealed that significantly more individuals of these six most common genera of fertile insects were found on domestic vegetation than in the lupine meadows in Heiðmörk. This is a simple observation, but the authors conclude that lupins offer worse habitat for pollinating insects in Icelandic nature than the domestic vegetation districts.
This interesting Article can be accessed on the IAS website.