"Remove the bee from the earth and at the same stroke you remove at least one hundred thousand plants that will not survive".
A statement of this type was made by the major literary figure Maurice Maeterlinck in his work "The life of the Bee" in 1901.One might have even come across an active unverified meme similar to the above quote by Einstein.
Leaving the Whole "who said what" aside, brings us to the fact of the matter.Advent of various blanket technologies have created an inimical environment for the Earths Bee population.
In a classic twist to this tale the culpable Human Technology has inevitably come to the rescue.
Eijiro Miyako of the National Institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Nano material's Research. He and his team created miniature robots that could be considered as a partial solution.They have created small drones coated in horsehair and a sticky gel that could help pollinate crops and help offset the loss of bees worldwide.
This manually controlled drone is 4 centimeters wide and weights 15 grams.The bottom is covered in horsehair coated in a special sticky gel.When the drone flies onto a flower, pollen grains stick lightly to the gel, the rub off on the next flower visited.In experiments, the drone was able to cross-pollinate Japanese lilies (Lilium Japonicum). Moreover, the soft, flexible animal hairs did not damage the stamens or pistils when the drone landed on the flowers.The find lings, which will have applications for agriculture and robotics, among others, could lead to the development of artificial pollinators and help counter the problems caused by the killing of honeybee colonies by Humans.This does nothing to stop the death of bees nor destruction of Earth by Humans
A statement of this type was made by the major literary figure Maurice Maeterlinck in his work "The life of the Bee" in 1901.One might have even come across an active unverified meme similar to the above quote by Einstein.
Leaving the Whole "who said what" aside, brings us to the fact of the matter.Advent of various blanket technologies have created an inimical environment for the Earths Bee population.
In a classic twist to this tale the culpable Human Technology has inevitably come to the rescue.
Eijiro Miyako of the National Institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Nano material's Research. He and his team created miniature robots that could be considered as a partial solution.They have created small drones coated in horsehair and a sticky gel that could help pollinate crops and help offset the loss of bees worldwide.
This manually controlled drone is 4 centimeters wide and weights 15 grams.The bottom is covered in horsehair coated in a special sticky gel.When the drone flies onto a flower, pollen grains stick lightly to the gel, the rub off on the next flower visited.In experiments, the drone was able to cross-pollinate Japanese lilies (Lilium Japonicum). Moreover, the soft, flexible animal hairs did not damage the stamens or pistils when the drone landed on the flowers.The find lings, which will have applications for agriculture and robotics, among others, could lead to the development of artificial pollinators and help counter the problems caused by the killing of honeybee colonies by Humans.This does nothing to stop the death of bees nor destruction of Earth by Humans
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