Study promotes role of bugs in keeping apple orchards healthy

Bugs including hoverflies, lacewings and ladybirds play an important role in keeping Britain’s apples healthy, a new study has shown.

The two-year project was led by a research team from the University of Reading, and published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. It indicates that growers could harvest up to an additional 2,420kg per hectare (6.9 per cent) of undamaged,

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