The Electronic Bee Spy: Eavesdropping on Honeybee Communication via Electrostatic Field Recordings.

Autor:	Paffhausen BH; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Petrasch J; Department Information Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Greggers U; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Duer A; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Wang Z; CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China., Menzel S; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Stieber P; CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China., Haink K; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Geldenhuys M; Independent Researcher, HAPE Imkerei GmbH, Neulußheim, Germany., Čavojská J; Department Information Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Stein TA; Complex and Distributed IT Systems, Technische Universtät Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Wutke S; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Voigt A; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Coburn J; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Menzel R; Department Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience [Front Behav Neurosci] 2021 Apr 28; Vol. 15, pp. 647224. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 28 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fnbeh.2021.647224
Abstrakt:	As a canary in a coalmine warns of dwindling breathable air, the honeybee can indicate the health of an ecosystem. Honeybees are the most important pollinators of fruit-bearing flowers, and share similar ecological niches with many other pollinators; therefore, the health of a honeybee colony can reflect the conditions of a whole ecosystem. The health of a colony may be mirrored in social signals that bees exchange during their sophisticated body movements such as the waggle dance. To observe these changes, we developed an automatic system that records and quantifies social signals under normal beekeeping conditions. Here, we describe the system and report representative cases of normal social behavior in honeybees. Our approach utilizes the fact that honeybee bodies are electrically charged by friction during flight and inside the colony, and thus they emanate characteristic electrostatic fields when they move their bodies. These signals, together with physical measurements inside and outside the colony (temperature, humidity, weight of the hive, and activity at the hive entrance) will allow quantification of normal and detrimental conditions of the whole colony. The information provided instructs how to setup the recording device, how to install it in a normal bee colony, and how to interpret its data. Competing Interests: PS was owner of the company Hape Imkerei GmbH. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Paffhausen, Petrasch, Greggers, Duer, Wang, Menzel, Stieber, Haink, Geldenhuys, Čavojská, Stein, Wutke, Voigt, Coburn and Menzel.)
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