Bplan
Artificial Pollination
2021
Final Project
Department of Industrial Design Shenkar
Tel Aviv, Israel
Hanyuan county is known as the “world’s pear capital”. But pesticide use has led to a drastic reduction in the area’s bee population, threatening the fruit crop. Workers now pollinate fruit trees artificially, carefully transferring pollen from male flowers to female flowers to fertilize them.
Farmers pollinating apple flowers in Feng Mao village. (Photo by Uma Partap)
80 percent of agricultural crops depend solely on bees that pollinate the plants from which fruits and vegetables are formed, most plants do not know how to reproduce on their own
Technology
Bumble bee can detect the electric fields of flowers via the deflections of many tiny mechanosensory filiform hairs on its head and body. Bees accumulate positive charge on their bodies as they fly. Flowers have negative charges.
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