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Robot Bees Invented to Provide Pollination as Honeybees Disappear
Cybercast News Service ^ | August 5, 2014 - 11:11 AM | Kelly Lawyer

Posted on 08/05/2014 1:43:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai

With honeybees on the decline because of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and Varroa mites, a virus-transmitting parasite, Harvard engineering and applied sciences professor, Robert Wood invented Robobees, bee-size robots “inspired by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior.” […]

Despite the hype surrounding these amazing robobees, before farmers go out and try to buy them, they should note that researchers anticipate robobees won’t be functional for at least another 20 years. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Science
KEYWORDS: colonycollapse; minidrones; pollination; robobee
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To: Olog-hai

Robot bees produced in some government lab? This sounds like the first scene in a horror or “End of the World” type movie.


21 posted on 08/05/2014 2:26:10 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: CrazyIvan

A bee-roll.


22 posted on 08/05/2014 2:29:05 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You took the words right out of my fingers.


23 posted on 08/05/2014 2:55:38 PM PDT by Minsc
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To: Olog-hai

I, for one, welcome our new robot bee overlords.


24 posted on 08/05/2014 5:06:27 PM PDT by clbiel (Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being decapitated)
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To: clbiel; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
Nano Black Helicopters

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

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25 posted on 08/05/2014 7:22:29 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: null and void

doing the job American bees won’t?


26 posted on 08/05/2014 7:54:24 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Olog-hai

No, conservative voter, that wasn’t a drone spying on you, that was merely a bee. Please, move along.


27 posted on 08/05/2014 9:13:08 PM PDT by bgill
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Honeybees disappearing?

I find that hard to believe where I am - bees swarm around my purple Mexican sage so much that the entire plant vibrates. I had to move my car to another location b/c I am allergic to bee stings and there are so many of them buzzing around.

When the three eucalyptus in my front yard bloom in the fall, the buzzing from bees is so loud around the trees that I can hear it inside with the doors shut.

Not sure eucalyptus makes such great honey...

Always wondered where their hives are and shouldn’t I get a cut of the honey for providing the pollen from my eucalyptus, citrus trees and sage bushes??


28 posted on 08/06/2014 4:47:45 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Given enough coffee...I could rule the world!!)
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