Without bees and other pollinating insects, most species of terrestrial flora and fauna will soon disappear and there will be a serious problem with feeding people on Earth.
For several years, the phenomenon of massive extinction of whole bee swarms in some regions of the world, including mainly regions of crop cultivation, has been observed.
Therefore, when this unfavorable process will continue, perhaps in the future the solution to this problem will be the creation of a Smart Robo-Bee, ie nanotechnological, miniaturized artificial robotic insects.
These Smart Robo-Bees could pollinate flowers of cereals, vegetables, shrubs, fruit trees, etc. in the situation of complete extinction of pollinating insects.
Is this a realistic scenario to solve the problem of extinction pollinating insects?
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The solution is to stop the damaging practices due to human action, particularly by the two companies (or is it one now) that control nearly all the world's food production.
Wouldn't it be more cost-effective, easier and less harmful to breed large quantities of real bees and deploy them when and where needed? I'd be concerned that yet again one or two companies would dominate the production/use of robo-bees. We've seen too often the problems when one company dominates in a space due to patent protection and ties farmers to particular technology. Naturally, I'm thinking of Monsanto:
https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/04/08/robotic-bees-to-pollinate-monsanto-crops/
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Will the creation of nano-insects solve the problem of declining populations of bees and other pollinating insects?
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No. It will just encourage humans to ignore real insects even more.
Read the recent 'IPBES Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production', which is free on-line. Pollinators are declining but the situation is not as bad as you suggest. The most dramatic declines have been with non-native honeybees trucked around North America to pollinate crops: a very unnatural situation. Protecting native pollinators is by no means a hopeless task and I don't know of any recorded extinctions of crop pollinators yet. Remember also that a lot of our diet comes from cereals, which are not pollinated by insects, and most of the rest comes from species that can utilize a wide variety of pollinators. Pollinator conservation is practical and worthwhile.
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