SENSORBEES: Sensorbees are ENhanced Self-ORganizing Bio-hybrids for Ecological and Environmental Surveillance

传感器蜂：传感器蜂是用于生态和环境监测的增强型自组织生物杂交体

• 批准号: 10109956
• 金额: $ 90.48万
• 依托单位: DURHAM UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10109956
• 关键词: SENSORBEES; Sensorbees; ENhanced; Self; ORganizing

SENSORBEES aims at using honeybee colonies as a sensor network for tracking a set of important but undersampled ecological status variables 1) the level of pollination service in the surrounding region and 2) the level of diversity of blossoming plants. The pollination of plants is not only significant for human society in agriculture but it is also the trophic basis of the food webs that support all the other trophic layers of animals that are currently endangered in the 6th mass extinction that we are currently facing. We will equip a honeycomb that fits into a conventional beehive with a micro-robotic system that can reach every single cell on the comb. Thus, we will be able to inspect the content of each cell selectively and store its assessment into a database, containing the history of each single comb cell over years. The robot will photograph the brood in the cell at full-size from a short distance, allowing its size and health measurement. SENSORBEES will perform specific manipulations on these comb cells, for maximizing and ensuring pollination service to the environment, to favor and support plant diversity, and to defend itself against detrimental developments. Moreover, we will equip the hive with a smart pollen trap capable of selective collection and visual analysis of the pollen brought into the hive by the bees. The pollen influx, along with the data collected by the robotic agents in the hive will provide information about the health of the colony as well as on the diversity of plants within the foraging area of the bees, i.e. 5-10 km around the hive, thus sample areas of 78-314 sq km. Health estimates on the colony level can be made by looking for anomalies in brood growth and breeding success and by comparing the data streams from the hive entrance, local weather data and brood dynamics. Data fusion will be applied to several colonies to e.g. locate potential problematic feeding sites

Sensorbees旨在使用Honeybee菌落作为传感网络，以跟踪一组重要但不足的生态状态变量1）周围地区的授粉服务水平； 2）开花植物的多样性水平。植物的授粉不仅对农业中的人类社会很重要，而且也是食物网的营养基础，支持我们目前面临的第六次大规模灭绝的所有其他营养层动物。我们将配备一个蜂窝状，该蜂窝可以与传统的蜂巢一起使用微型动物系统，该系统可以到达梳子上的每个单元。因此，我们将能够选择性地检查每个单元格的内容，并将其评估存储到数据库中，其中包含多年来每个梳子单元的历史记录。机器人将在短距离内以全尺寸的形式在牢房中拍摄育雏，从而允许其大小和健康测量。 Sensorbees将对这些梳细胞进行特定的操作，以最大程度地提高和确保对环境的授粉服务，偏爱和支持植物的多样性，并为自己辩护，以防止有害发展。此外，我们将配备蜂巢的智能花粉陷阱，能够选择性收集和视觉分析蜜蜂带入蜂巢的花粉。花粉涌入以及蜂巢中机器人收集的数据将提供有关菌落健康以及蜜蜂觅食区域内植物的多样性的信息，即蜂巢周围的5-10公里，因此样品面积为78-314平方km。可以通过寻找育雏增长和繁殖成功的异常以及比较蜂巢入口，当地天气数据和育雏动态的数据流来对菌落水平进行健康估计。数据融合将应用于几个菌落，例如找到潜在的有问题的喂养地点