<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Another terrifying techno-fix! Here’s a thought: how about creating more understory in our orchards and inviting our thousands of species of native bees (many of which are prodigious orchard fruit pollinators) back into the agricultural landscape instead of trying to create a parking lot full of monocultures pollinated by robots?<div><br></div><div>This is definitively taking us in the wrong direction!<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Dec 4, 2019, at 5:33 PM, The Honeybee Conservancy <<a href="mailto:bee@thehoneybeeconservancy.org">bee@thehoneybeeconservancy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Fresh news:<br></font><div><div><font size="2">"About 75% of the world’s crops rely on insect pollination. Edete’s
technology can replace nature’s pollinators like honeybees in order to
help produce more food and meet the needs of the world’s growing
population The Israeli startup, established in 2016, has successfully
completed a series of field trials for pollen harvest and pollination in
almond orchards in Israel using its unique pollen harvesting and
mechanical pollination system...The company plans to
begin a pilot program using the technology in 2022 in California, the
world’s largest almond growing region."</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">full
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