The Importance and Benefits of Alfalfa in the （紫花苜蓿的重要性和好处）.pdf

The Importance and Benefits of Alfalfa in the 21st Century Executive points of view. It was apparent that Providing Significant Wildlife many of the attributes of alfalfa were Habitat . Alfalfa is the beginning of a Summary poorly understood. Furthermore, there food chain, and contributes valuable were few publications that attempted habitat for hundreds of species of to document the benefits of agriculture herbivores and animals of prey. It hosts to the environment. several endangered species, plus many Will an advanced industrial society In this publication, we present a familiar ones. Those who love nature value humble crop plants being grown series of topics related to alfalfa’s role should appreciate alfalfa’s support of adjacent to multi-million dollar office in agriculture and the environment. many wildlife species. complexes or homes? Does the public The goal of this publication is to allow Alfalfa as an Insectary . Alfalfa is know how important agriculture is to readers to become more familiar with a source of incredible insect diversity, their daily lives, providing not only alfalfa’s importance as a crop, and its which includes many valuable ‘benefi- food but a wide variety of other benefits contributions to broader social goals. cial’ insects. These, in turn help control as well? Or, when push comes to many other types of insect and mite shove, will society simply dispense