Applications of RFID technology on the study of bees

P Nunes-Silva, M Hrncir, JTF Guimarães, H Arruda… - Insectes sociaux, 2019 - Springer
Bees have the potential to be used as indicators of environmental quality. The parameters
typically analyzed in this context include species diversity, colony condition and foraging …

Technological advances in field studies of pollinator ecology and the future of e-ecology

SE Barlow, MA O'Neill - Current opinion in insect science, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Ecologists need technological solutions for acquiring large datasets in the
field.•Field-deployed e-ecology tools are constrained by power draw and reliability …

Chronic exposure to the pesticide flupyradifurone can lead to premature onset of foraging in honeybees Apis mellifera

H Hesselbach, J Seeger, F Schilcher… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Honeybees Apis mellifera and other pollinating insects suffer from pesticides in agricultural
landscapes. Flupyradifurone is the active ingredient of a novel pesticide by the name of …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for better sensor-based beehive health monitoring

A Zaman, A Dorin - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Hive bees provide essential pollination services to human agriculture. Managed honey bees
in particular pollinate many crops, but also create honey and other bee products that are …

Low-cost electronic tagging system for bee monitoring

P De Souza, P Marendy, K Barbosa, S Budi, P Hirsch… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper introduces both a hardware and a software system designed to allow low-cost
electronic monitoring of social insects using RFID tags. Data formats for individual insect …

Analysis of honeybee drone activity during the mating season in Northwestern Argentina

MM Ayup, P Gärtner, JL Agosto-Rivera, P Marendy… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary When we think of social insects, we mostly neglect males and their
biology. Honeybee males or drones are an example. Like queens, drones are founders of …

Foraging and Drifting Patterns of the Highly Eusocial Neotropical Stingless Bee Melipona fasciculata Assessed by Radio-Frequency Identification Tags

RC Oliveira, FAL Contrera, H Arruda, R Jaffe… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bees play a key role in ecosystem services as the main pollinators of numerous flowering
plants. Studying factors influencing their foraging behavior is relevant not only to understand …

RFID-tagged amazonian stingless bees confirm that landscape configuration and nest re-establishment time affect homing ability

L Costa, P Nunes-Silva, JS Galaschi-Teixeira, H Arruda… - Insectes Sociaux, 2021 - Springer
Bee flight capacity determines the area that a colony can exploit, and this knowledge is
essential to formulate management and conservation strategies for each species. In this …

RFID technology serving honey bee research: A comprehensive description of a 32-antenna system to study honey bee and queen behavior

M Alburaki, S Madella, M Corona - Applied System Innovation, 2021 - mdpi.com
The fields of electronics and information technology have witnessed rapid development
during the last decades, providing significant technical support to the field of biological …

Challenges in developing a real-time bee-counting radar

SM Williams, N Aldabashi, P Cross, C Palego - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Detailed within is an attempt to implement a real-time radar signal classification system to
monitor and count bee activity at the hive entry. There is interest in keeping records of the …