Problem:
It takes people a long time and effort to harvest each plant and it takes a lot of time out of their day. Sometimes not enough food is harvested when it is just hand picked.
A Bee glove to collect berries Notice the spikes that help you collect berries more easily when you are hand picking them. They act like bee body hairs that collect the pollen from a flower.
Biomimicry Idea:
Mimic how a bee collects pollen. Pollen gets stuck on the bee’s small hairs and on the legs of a bee. That helps the bee harvest the pollen faster than picking one little piece of pollen at a time. Humans can mimic a bee by harvesting raspberries with a “Bee glove” that collects the berries. This glove would be covered with thorns or rakes on which the berries get stuck. This is just like using the small hairs on a bee. It will make a kind of machine to help harvest plants so people don’t need to spend a lot of time harvesting by hand.
Bee Facts
-A queen bee will lay over 1,50o eggs a year
-All worker bees are female and will do all the work but when winter comes they will kick male bees out of the hive to die
-The bees use honeycomb sells to store the babies and necter
-Male bees are called drones. They mate with the queen
-Bees have straw like tongues so they can suck up necter
-Bees carry pollen on their legs in small sacks with small hairs
-Bacteria can not grow in honey
