On the Importance of the Sound Emitted by Honey Bee Hives
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Universitá Politecnica Delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
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Vet. Sci. 2020, 7(4), 168; https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci7040168
Received: 22 September 2020
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Revised: 23 October 2020
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Accepted: 28 October 2020
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Published: 31 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Honey Bee Health)
Recent years have seen a worsening in the decline of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) colonies. This phenomenon has sparked a great amount of attention regarding the need for intense bee hive monitoring, in order to identify possible causes, and design corresponding countermeasures. Honey bees have a key role in pollination services of both cultivated and spontaneous flora, and the increase in bee mortality could lead to an ecological and economical damage. Despite many smart monitoring systems for honey bees and bee hives, relying on different sensors and measured quantities, have been proposed over the years, the most promising ones are based on sound analysis. Sounds are used by the bees to communicate within the hive, and their analysis can reveal useful information to understand the colony health status and to detect sudden variations, just by using a simple microphone and an acquisition system. The work here presented aims to provide a review of the most interesting approaches proposed over the years for honey bees sound analysis and the type of knowledge about bees that can be extracted from sounds.
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Keywords:
bee hive monitoring; real-time monitoring; sound measurement; swarming detection; queen bee detection; sound analysis
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Terenzi, A.; Cecchi, S.; Spinsante, S. On the Importance of the Sound Emitted by Honey Bee Hives. Vet. Sci. 2020, 7, 168. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci7040168
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Terenzi A, Cecchi S, Spinsante S. On the Importance of the Sound Emitted by Honey Bee Hives. Veterinary Sciences. 2020; 7(4):168. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci7040168
Chicago/Turabian StyleTerenzi, Alessandro, Stefania Cecchi, and Susanna Spinsante. 2020. "On the Importance of the Sound Emitted by Honey Bee Hives" Veterinary Sciences 7, no. 4: 168. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci7040168
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