Open hardware and software
Source and access
Relevancy to Gratheon
BEEhaviourLab provides a reusable blueprint for combining camera and microphone data instead of treating the modalities as separate experiments. Its tag-free honey-bee tracking, synchronized acquisition, and modular Raspberry Pi controls can inform Gratheon prototypes for recognizing subtle behavior and stress before colony-level symptoms become obvious.
The fully open apparatus and retraining tutorial are especially useful for reproducibility. Although the validation experiment is laboratory-based and focuses on pesticide stress in bumblebees, the platform's multi-species detector and acoustic endpoints can be adapted to honey-bee health, movement, and behavior studies with substantially less custom infrastructure.