Radio frequency ID tags on honey bees reveal hive dynamics
Champaign IL (SPX) Jul 24, 2014 - Scientists attached radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to hundreds of individual honey bees and tracked them for several weeks. The effort yielded two discoveries: Some foraging bees are much busier than others; and if those busy bees disappear, others will take their place. The findings are reported in the journal Animal Behaviour. Tagging the bees revealed that about 20 per ... more
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