new fruit orchards that require zero pollinators

NEW VARIETIES THREATEN POLLINATORS

While at my local beekeeper lecture I was told that there are now new fruit orchards that require zero pollinators and, more alarmingly, they are actively discouraged as modern orchards prefer to spray when they want, pollinators simply get in the way.

This means that any pollinator active in an orchard at the most important flowering time will get zapped by the spray insecticide, fungicide or cocktail when they are busy doing what bees do best. Carrying the spray back to the hive and so contaminating the brood.