We were on our way home from mass (last Sunday - I do not - unfortunately - own a time mashine). Suddenly I saw something in a field and snapped some photos.
Here we see it throught the bus window. Those strange dots in the top is some kind of anti-glare sun protection.
I made a closeup to see if I was right. And I was - what do you see behind and to the right of the horse?
It is rapeseed, or canola by another name. The white flowering variety is suposed to keep the pests away. The rape pollen beetle to be specific. It goes for yellow! and during summer you can find heaps of them on anything remotely the same yellow as canola: Dandelions, table cloths, T-shirts and yellow barns (the old way of keeping at least some of them from the fields). And these pesky bugs are - at least in theory - unable to 'see' the white flowers of those rape seed fields.
This is wery smart, I think.
An even closer closeup, not very good, but you can still see the that the flowers are white.
So they have bred a rapeseed to have a white flower to preserve it from pests? If so, that's quite smart!
SvarSletYes that's the thought. The pests seems to not be able to see those white flowers - or at least not recognize them as their favourite snack.
SletOh my. I have never seen (or heard of) white flowering rape seed. I hope it works. A colour change is MUCH more to my taste than expensive and destructive poisons and sprays.
SvarSletThank you so much for joining Sunday Selections again.
It's quite new here as well. I thing I saw the first ones three years ago. I also clap my hands violently at anything that means less poison - especially when it's a natural variety.
SletThank you for hosting this. It's a good excuse to show off some of the more goofy shots :D
How very interesting Charlotte, thank goodness for no pesticides.
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