<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Dec 16, 2015, at 8:58 AM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Does every last give even need to be watched? Wouldn't a good small randomized sample tell us much for a given area? That might bring the cost down, especially if, say, only 2% of hives in a region can tell us about the overall status of all the hives in the same area. (Ditto for monitoring other species.)<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That depends upon the purpose of the monitoring. If you're looking for a measure of regional health, then spot checking is fine. If you're looking to reduce the beekeeper's workload and identify problems as quickly as possible, then, yes, you want to monitor all the hives in the bee yard.<br></div></div></blockquote><br><div>It might be a good start though. Could, for instance, spread the costs of monitoring around to many beekeepers. For sure, it's. It as precise as monitoring each hive, but it could warn all the beekeepers in an area about overall trends.</div><div><br></div><div>And as the technology rolls out, the familiarity will go up and the price'll go down, no? And folks toying around at the tech at the regional level might come up with more applications sooner. (Of course, right, if every beekeeper had one, even more so, though at a much higher initial cost.)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>