Fleets of drones could pollinate future crops
A forgotten, failed experiment sent a robot airborne
By
Elizabeth Eaton
12:00pm, March 7, 2017
Eijiro Miyako gets emotional about the decline of honeybees.
“We need pollination,” he says. “If that system is collapsed, it’s terrible.”
Insects, especially bees, help pollinate both food crops and wild plants. But pollinators are declining worldwide due to habitat loss, disease and exposure to pesticides, among other factors (SN: 1/23/16, p. 16).
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