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Olombria

Olombria

Insect pollinators provide a vital ecosystem service for crop pollination in wild plants, and over 75% of crops worldwide benefit from insect pollination through increased yields at harvest. The number of wild pollinators, especially bees is steadily declining globally due to industrial agriculture, pathogens, loss of biodiversity, use of pesticides and climate change. This documented decline poses a significant risk to the production of many crops and threatens food security.

Olombria encourages flies to be more efficient pollinators, in scenarios where bees are no longer as viable. Flies are already adept pollinators, being the main pollinators in urban environments, and in total, accounting for over 30% of all pollination.

Olombria provides horticultural growers with information on pollinators and environmental conditions and uses chemical volatiles to manage pollinating fly species, thereby increasing crop productivity, and ensuring sustainable food harvests for the future.

Visit their website for more: www.flypollination.com.

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Since joining as a ‘Seedling’ level membership, the support that Agri-Tech East has been able to offer us has been invaluable, particularly as a new start-up without a large network in Agriculture.

The membership has helped us accelerate our knowledge of key organisations relevant to our work, and the diverse events that we have attended so far have introduced us to some key partners, expanded our understanding of different funding mechanisms as well as facilitating media exposure that has allowed us to reach a wider audience.

Tashia Tucker, Co-Founder and CEO

Olombria flies to the rescue of orchards threatened by lack of pollinators

Hairy flies that mimic the behaviour of honeybees are being conscripted by start-up Olombria (formerly known as POM) to overcome the dramatic decline in pollinators, it was announced at REAP 2017. The fly ‘body doubles’ are being lured to orchards by pheromones that encourage them to forage among the blossom, pollinating the crop as they do so.

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