This is the latest in a series of reports featuring abstracts from The 4th International Bee & Hive Monitoring Conference, hosted by the University of Montana and Western Apicultural Society in October 2020. It provided attendees worldwide with a virtual collection of the latest honey bee colony monitoring developments, ranging from products on the market today to research that may result in future innovations. As a virtual conference this event not only reported on new technologies, but in a sense used them.
The technologies presented here take advantage of low-cost sensors, powerful batteries, communications technology, cloud storage, information processing algorithms, interactive visualizations and other concepts. The event included 50 presentations from 14 countries with more than 400 registrants. Edited abstracts and links to full video presentations are presented here, as originally published by Bee Culture Magazine.
The sixth column looks at thermal imaging, Scott Debnam, University of Montana; BEEHEROX bioacustics and pollination, Huw Evans; and the BeeHealth,guru app, David Firth, University of Montana. Bee Culture, October 2021
