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| Honey bee. (Photo: Andrew / Flickr) |
On May Day, we marched honey bee-pollinated food (a cornucopia of fruits, vegetables, berries) into the Microrobotic Lab at Harvard University. We wore our bee-swarm costumes and the Queen Bee was regal (see video here). In this facility, scientists are sinning big time. They are accepting government money to design a replacement for the honey bee. The robot bee is called the RoboBee.
Two of the RoboBee project goals on the Microrobotics Lab website are artificial pollinaton and military surveillance. With the RoboBee research we have a blend of the visions of Monsanto's industrial agriculture and of world-wide military surveillance and control.
The project director, Dr. Robert J. Wood, is a wunderkind in drone technology, receiving grants and awards from the Navy and Air Force, as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - also known as DARPA. The notorious terror of the skies has long heralded the arrival surveillance and bombs that would have the flight capabilities of insects.
Monsanto and the Big Chem companies like Bayer, BASF and Syngenta are waiting in the wings for the robot bees to fly, not yet showing public support for the SmartBee. Perhaps their marketing people are telling them that they would look like opportunists if they seemed glad about the fake bees, since it is their neuropathic pesticides that are the main suspect in the "Colony Collapse" of the bees, with a 50 percent drop in its population since 2006. Big Chem is both a cause and beneficiary of this research.
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