Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 9/4/18

[M]ost farmers have to buy or rent bee colonies, which contributes to a rise in food prices, according to the U.S. Bee Informed Partnership …. Russian scientists at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) [could] offer an alternative: robo-bees. Researchers plan to launch the project in 2019 According to Alexey Yakovlev, the head of TPU’s School of Engineering, artificial bees will be especially beneficial for strawberry and other plants that grow in greenhouses all year round.

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