We said that the workers are hard. “Busy like a bee” but in the recent study, honey is more like an office staff.
Targetists and engineers in the United States are stuck in a small QR code on the back of tens of thousands of honey in the rural areas of Pennsylvania and New York. Application of this technology like never before As detailed in paper Published in the journal in November Hardware XWill help scientists and beekeepers to study how far the insects can go to collect food This experiment has revealed a mysterious behavior of this important pollutant.
Previous studies pointed out that the bees were able to find food as far as 10 kilometers from hives. But the Entomologist hypothesized that this is not often happened. “The goal is to understand that the approximate of 10 kilometers is biological precision or not. How do we know how far the honey is traveling from its nest? “Margarita López-Instik, a guitar from the Penn State University and the author of the study at a university. statement–
The QR code is called a trust tag. Work like a sign in the office building The team has developed an automatic photography system with a sensor at the nest to record every time the bees that tag in and out. Helping Kiwittaya can follow each food time. The sensor will record each bee ID day at the time, temperature and whether the bees are in and out.
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Traditional gitology fields tend to not really act. But this approach provides in -depth information like never before about the behavior of bees
“This technology gives a biologist to study the system in a way that has never been done before. In particular, in relation to organic beekeeping, “López-Inuribe said the organic beekeeping also, including the maintenance of the area from the industrial zone to prevent the bees from collecting pollen. Flowers in the area with pollution. However, because the food for the food of the general bees is still difficult. The advice of the US Ministry of Agriculture for the certification of organic products may not be correct in this matter.
“In the field of biology We tend to look at things with our eyes, but the number of observations that we can do as a human being never expand the size that the machine can do. ” 6 bees curtains with QR codes that are smaller than humans's little finger nails. Which is not harmful to bees or limits their movement
“We set goals to a small bee. So that we can follow their age more precisely Especially when they start to fly and when it stops, “Robin Underwood from Pentate State in this study said. The younger person is easier to handle because they are not punching.
So what are you doing?
The researchers observed that most of the journey from the nest tend to take about four minutes. Which may be a rapid period or the weather inspection And traveling long distances is sometimes less than 20 minutes.
The lack of missing for a long time may be caused by going out to find food longer. For example, long distance travel, sometimes in line with the period with less flowers. In the meantime, the bees will have to travel a long distance to collect the due to the scientists. The scientists also admit that the data may be distorted by a bee that has never been returned or into the upside down nest. Which is a hidden QR code from the sensor effectively
In addition, “We found that the bees could find food longer than we had in the first place,” Underwood said. Previously, the gynecologist suggested that honey honey lived for about 28 days. She explained. “We saw the bees looking for food for six weeks. And they didn't start to find food until they were about two weeks Therefore, they are much longer than we thought. “
When they started to find food Bees in the same nest will share information about food sources with each other through what is called “Dance”. The team is currently working with researchers from Virginia Tech in order to provide information about food in accordance with this behavior. To further investigate how far the bees traveled from the nest
Perhaps the next step is a small airtags on the back.