We wanted to test the potential for remote monitoring programs that use acoustics to track
bee flight activities.»
Not exact matches
Due to the
bees» repeated
flight activity, the pollen grains were stirred up, thus contaminating the
bee's body evenly within a few minutes.
This includes pollen that is removed or collected by the
bee via grooming and the pollen that gets lost e.g. during
flight activity or touching non-stigmatic floral parts or stigmas of interspecific flowers.
Ten other
bee individuals per treatment were kept for one hour in the
flight cage in which about 15 minutes grooming
activity took place.
Using the app, what the developers and beekeepers have found is that healthy hives have a spike in
activity in the middle of the afternoon, when new field
bees take their first «orientation»
flights, while sick or threatened hives have a different
activity signature all together.