Walmart patents bee drones
We can see from this headline that the madness in this world can always be topped once again. It is explicitly not a belated April Fool's joke, but the truth. This can be taken from the paper of the "United States Patent Application Publication US2018/0065749 A1 dated 8.3.2018." Perhaps this date will serve later generations as a historical milestone in retrospect of the erroneous developments of the "modern", digitized twenty-first century.
The world's largest retail group Walmart, with a turnover of almost 500 billion dollars, which is comparatively still well above the federal budget, has applied for a patent for mini-drones, which in the future should be able to replace analog bees in their task of pollinating flowers. Against the backdrop of global bee mortality, this is probably intended to make an important contribution to securing supplies in the fruit and vegetable departments of the retail giant, which obviously seems to make sense to the strategists there. Billions in sales and billions in profits, which must continue to bubble up, obviously motivate such, in our view, intellectual blunders.
In addition to pollination, digital bees can also deliver pesticides to the flower with pinpoint accuracy and precisely locate existing "pests. Whether they can also sting is not known. However, the Pentagon would probably be more concerned about this than Walmart.
After in some Chinese regions the pollination is already made by humans, who climb equipped with fine brushes into the trees, which is regarded however even with the Chinese income level still as too expensive, the development continues thus dynamically.
Can we just shake our heads at this, look on impotently, or burst with rage? We can do much more.
The concordiaNATURA foundation would like to invite many interested people to take care of the "analog bees". It is not witchcraft at all to beekeep species- and nature-appropriate by oneself. A meaningful hobby, with a manageable amount of work, but which is all the more enjoyable and provides us with contemplative hours at the hives.
The health of the bees and thus the preservation of the species "Apis mellifera mellifera" should be in the foreground. This also means to do without large "honey harvests" and to leave the honey, at least to the predominant part, to the bees as stock for the winter, for which it is originally intended by nature.
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