[ExI] Bee Watch

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This App Monitors Bee Flight To Warn When Something's Amiss

<http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054207/this-app-monitors-bee-flight-to-warn-when-somethings-amiss>

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"It's really easy now for a beekeeper to identify things like an ant
attack, just by watching videos and time lapses of their hive," he
says. The technology also picks out the flight activity at the hive,
allowing beekeepers to understand what "normal" behavior patterns look
like. This allows them to detect subtle changes going on inside the
hive that cause a colony to decline.

In one case, as beekeepers tested the technology, a change in activity
alerted them that the queen bee had died, along with the emergency
replacement queen. "The bees were doomed," says Temby. "A simple
intervention of putting in a frame of eggs from the hive next to it,
allowed the bees to raise another queen, and the new queen led that
hive back to success."

In other cases, the alerts helped beekeepers learn that they should
modify the opening to the hive to keep out pests or add some extra
honey to supplement the hive's food.
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