Forget bees, use flying soap bubbles to pollinate plants and save world from starvation: Japan study

Flying robots equipped with bubble guns could one day help save our planet.That’s according to a study published in the journal iScience on Wednesday by a Japanese scientist who successfully demonstrated that soap bubbles can be used to pollinate fruit-bearing plants – seen as vital to keeping the world fed in the coming decades in the face of vanishing bee populations.The existential threat facing the honey bee, and what it means for usEjiro Miyako, an associate professor at the Japan Advanced…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3089502/forget-bees-use-flying-soap-bubbles-save-world-starvation-says