[Pollinator] "Artificial pollination technology works in almonds"

[Kit Prendergast]

I wrote a critique of these concept some years ago, please see attached
Cheers

On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 04:34, Celeste Ets-Hokin <celeste.etshokin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> This is definitively taking us in the wrong direction!
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 4, 2019, at 5:33 PM, The Honeybee Conservancy <
> bee at thehoneybeeconservancy.org> wrote:
>
> Fresh news:
> "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."
>
> full article:
> https://www.sarniathisweek.com/business/farm-business/artificial-pollination-technology-works-in-almonds/wcm/ba9e0a59-723f-40d3-afa1-4f28c8b8f928
>
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Kit Prendergast
Native bee scientist, conservation biologist and zoologist
PhD researcher (Curtin University) and Forrest Scholar
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