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  • From: Blair Christian <blair.christian AT gmail.com>
  • To: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Device to detect vibration changes signaling early stages of disease in hives
  • Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:32:01 -0400

This idea seems to come and go- the last time I heard about it was
here from 2007:

http://www2.umt.edu/urelations/rview/spring07/bees.htm

"The Buzz on Bees

"University researchers decode their unique sounds. Everyone has
heard of the canary in the coal mine, which sways or drops dead in the
presence of poisonous gas, alerting miners to get out.

"Now a University of Montana research team has learned to understand
the collective buzzing of bees in their hives, which can provide a
similar biological alert system...."


Here are some tools to do it at home if you're interested:
http://hivetool.org/audio/

Best,
Blair


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Steve Richardson <mda180 AT aol.com> wrote:
>
> "Dr Martin Bencsik, a physicist at Nottingham Trent University, is now
> developing a device that can automatically detect the signs of disease in
> bees to give bee keepers an early warning of any infections in a colony and
> hopefully allow them to take action.
>
> It detects distinct vibrations that the insects pass through the honeycomb
> in their hives to warn others in the colony about possible threats"
>
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/beekeeping/9950045/Listening-to-bees-buzz-can-help-spot-disease.html
>
> Steve Richardson
> Hillsborough
>
>
> "Science progresses funeral by funeral." - Max Planck
>
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