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BEE-XTINCTION or BEE-OTICS?

Dania Galdo

Biology

October 1st 2018

Slide 1: The first slide must be the Title slide with your name, academic major, date and a unique title that is not identical to that of the papers you have discussed. The title should be related to the main point that you intend to discuss in the presentation.

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Bees are irreplaceable.

It took nature about 130 million years to create bees, and bees have evolved and adapted over that long to do what they do best. However, scientists have decided that a “drone project” that’s barely a few years old is going to replace these amazing creatures in doing their job.

Slide 2: The second slide must be the Introduction slide that contains the main point or the purpose of your short presentation, as well as background information needed to help the audience understand the topic. I expect that you will select from the paper one non-trivial (major) point that you want to discuss; you are not expected to discuss the entire paper. You should include a statement in the Introduction slide that explains why you think your point is important. If you need more room to prevent crowding you may use extra continuation slides as needed.

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RoboBees are a great idea, but using them to try to replace bees is not going to fix anything

RoboBees were designed to do more than just pollination.

autonomously pollinating a field of crops

search and rescue (e.g., in the aftermath of a natural disaster)

hazardous environment exploration

military surveillance

high-resolution weather and climate mapping

traffic monitoring

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Honeybees on the other hand, can pollinate up to 95 different crops, this helps create nearly 1/3 of the world’s food supply. In the US alone, pollinator bees are responsible for pollinating 75% of crops necessary for food production. They also pollinate other plants and wild flowers.

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Manufacturing drones in a massive scale is not going to help save the bees and it is not an economically viable solution.

Drones, unlike bees, are not capable of independent decision making, cannot learn, instead, they are programmed to perform a particular function, and they were certainly not designed to work together as a team like bees do.

Next Slides: Your next slide will be the Hypothesis slide where you briefly and generally describe the main hypothesis of the paper. To avoid crowding you may use extra continuation slides as needed.

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Next Slides: Your next slide will be the Results and Discussion slide where you present and discuss only the data that are related to your specific main point that you want to make; do not present data from the paper (or other related papers that you read) that have no bearing on your main point.  You may use extra continuation Results and Discussion slides as needed. Please make sure you don’t exceed a maximum of 15 slides.

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Next Slide: Your next slide should be the Summary slide where you 1) summarize your discussion, and 2) describe future work that could be done. You may use one extra continuation slide.

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E. O. Wilson said, ‘If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.’

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The six arguments that show why this is a technically and economically inviable 'solution' at present and poses substantial ecological and moral risks:

despite recent advances, robotic pollination is far from being able to replace bees to pollinate crops efficiently;

using robots is very unlikely to be economically viable;

there would be unacceptably high environmental costs;

wider ecosystems would be damaged;

it would erode the values of biodiversity; and,

relying on robotic pollination could actually lead to major food insecurity.

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Final Slide: The final slide should be the Literature Cited slide that includes the complete reference for the paper(s) using the name-year format (http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocCSE.html).

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