Explore: Seed Harvesting

poppy seeds of superior quality is in conflict with harvesting for opium as poppy seeds should be harvested when they are ripe, after the seed pod has

cyanus. Seeds are harvested either by hand or, in an agricultural setting, with a seed harvesting machine. On average there are 97,000 seeds in a pound

called granaries. They are also referred to as agricultural ants. Seed harvesting by some desert ants is an adaptation to the lack of typical ant resources

paths of other seed-harvesting colonies, as engaging in conflict is likely to detract from the colony's own ability to maximize harvesting efficiency. In

seeds and low productivity. The use of a seed drill can improve the ratio of crop yield (seeds harvested per seed planted) by as much as eight times while

Automation has increased the efficiency of both the seeding and harvesting processes. Specialized harvesting equipment, using conveyor belts for gentle gripping

are generated by wild-harvesting mainly done by collectors in Tanzania. When initial studies on the potential of wild-harvesting were done in the early

and foraging behaviour of the European seed harvesting ant Messor capitatus: II. Do ants optimize their harvesting?. Physiological Entomology, 15(4), 449-461

locally or internationally owing to their seed size being large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines, the seeds are also edible but are too small to

that are harvested when fully mature and dried by mechanical means. Opium poppy straw is what remains after the seed pods have been harvested — that is