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SoulButter
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Invention Idea
#22082406 - 08/12/15 05:17 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is an idea that could be used to attract pollinators (bees, insects, some birds). A very important thing if you want to ensure your plants will bear a healthy fruit.
Honeybees are visually attracted to flowers because the flower petals are UV active. They glow against the unimportant leaves and stems. What if there was a water-based spray you could apply to plants, that essentially acts as a signal flare for pollinators. A seemingly uninteresting liquid that is visible only on the UV spectrum. So when you spray it in the area around a flower, it appears as a large glowing splotch, rather than a small glowing flower. This would theoretically make pollination zones far more visible to pollinators, making it easier for the flowers to be discovered, leading to increased pollination!
What do you think guys. Any flaws? Am I just stoned or is this a good idea? theres at least plenty of experimenting to do with the idea
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dpomalia
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Sounds like a reverse bug spray and I don't think that will sell very well. You could spray you plants with sugar water and have the same result. And on the other hand if it somehow does only attract pollinators(bees moths butterflies) no one wants to attract insects to the very thing they want to be besutiful, maybe the butterflies but moths and bees; no. Sorry to rain on you field of sunflowers but "aey callsum aseyes seesum"
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MasterPython
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Some people recommend co-planting catnip for this exact reason.
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