Inventor
crowdfunds to produce reviver sachets after prototype success
Wed 24
Apr 2019 16.42 BSTLast modified on Wed 24 Apr
2019 19.15 BST
If you’ve
ever felt a pang of pity for a starving bee struggling on the pavement in front
of you, then help may soon be at hand. Or more precisely, in your wallet.
A
community development worker has invented a credit card-style reviver for bees
containing three sachets of sugar solution, which can be placed beside the
insect to feed it.
Dan
Harris, 40, is now crowdfunding
to produce the “Bee Saviour” cardsafter the success of his
prototype, with community groups and businesses in his local city of Norwich,
including the Book Hive bookshop
and a local pub, pledging to stock the £4 bee revivers.
Each card
contains three indentations containing a beekeepers’ formula, secured by
foil-backed stickers which can be peeled off.
“The
first time you peel back the sticker and put the card down next to the bee, you
think, what’s going to happen? When I first tested it, the bee walked calmly
onto the card and started feeding,” Harris said.
“It
struck me that everyone who walks around a city will have walked past an
exhausted bee. That means you’ve also walked past an opportunity to connect
with nature.”
Harris
came up with the idea after learning about bees’ fast metabolism and how
quickly they can run out of energy. He also wondered how people living in
cities could engage with nature more frequently.
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