Automated entrance monitoring to investigate honey bee foraging trips using open-source wireless platform and fiducial tags
Diego Penaloza-Aponte, Sarabeth Brandt, Erin Dent, Robyn M Underwood, Benedict DeMoras, Selina Bruckner, Margarita M López-Uribe, Julio V Urbina · 2024
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Description
Diego Penaloza-Aponte and seven co-authors build a bee watching system in a 2024 paper. A honey bee colony sends out thousands of foragers daily. Tracking each trip by eye does not scale. The team designed an automatic gate counter for hive entrances.
Each bee wears a small printed tag with a unique code. A camera at a custom entrance reads tags as bees pass. Low cost single board computers run the whole setup. Wireless links report the in and out events for the colony. Six field sites ran the system through a foraging season. Results stayed consistent across those sites. Full build plans are shared as open source for other labs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Diego Penaloza-Aponte, Sarabeth Brandt, Erin Dent, Robyn M Underwood, Benedict DeMoras, Selina Bruckner, Margarita M López-Uribe, Julio V Urbina |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |