Robotic Bees to pollinate Monsanto crops (NOT the Onion)

[Bennyboy]

Pollinators participate in the sexual-reproduction of plants. When you eat an almond, beet, watermelon or sip on coffee, you’re partaking of an ancient relationship between pollinators and flowers. But since the 1990s, worldwide bee health has been in decline and most evidence points to toxic pesticides created by Shell and Bayer and the loss of genetic biodiversity due to the proliferation of GMO monocrops created in laboratories by biotech companies like Monsanto.

But never worry, those real life pollinators—the birds and the bees, as they say—may soon be irrelevant to the food needs of civilization. Harvard roboticists are developing a solution to the crisis: swarms of tiny robot bees made of titanium and plastic that can pollinate those vast dystopian fields of GMO cash crops.


More here: ttp://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/robotic-bees-to-pollinate-monsanto-crops/

[glinda]

1. In an addition" metal parts found in dead birds".

Just saying... what could possibly go wrong?

[Apophis]

2. What's sad is that, instead of stopping the use of bee-killing pesticides

they're just going to make robotic pollinators.

[Generic Other]

3. O Brave New World

Pollinate the flowers and spy on the citizens at the same time. Perfect hybrid.

[Buzz Clik]

4. You actually worked Monsanto into this story? Nicely played!

And, since you hijacked your own thread in the opening post, let me follow up with a couple of questions:

1. How is it that GMOs have anything at all to with the neonicotinoids that are killing honey bees?
2. Why are robotic bees needed to pollinate Monsanto crops?

Please try to be as specific as possible.