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Reception and learning of electric fields in bees

rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org Uwe Greggers1, Gesche Koch1, Viola Schmidt1, Aron Dürr1, Amalia FloriouServou1, David Piepenbrock2, Martin C. Göpfert2 and Randolf Menzel1 1 Institut für Biologie, AG Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Strasse 28-30, 14195 Berlin, Germany 2 Department Cellular Neurobiology, Schwann-Schleiden Centre for Molecular Cell Biology, Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany Research Cite this article: Greggers U, Koch G, Schmidt V, Dürr A, Floriou-Servou A, Piepenbrock D, Göpfert MC, Menzel R. 2013 Reception and learning of electric fields in bees. Proc R Soc B 280: 20130528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0528 Received: 27 February 2013 Accepted: 6 March 2013 Subject Areas: behaviour, neuroscience, biomechanics Keywords: electric surface charge, mechanoreceptors as sensors for electric fields, Johnston organ, learning of electric field stimuli Author for correspondence: Uwe Greggers e-mail: greggers@neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de Electronic supplementary material is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0528 or via http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org.

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🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin
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2013
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Relevancy to Gratheon

This paper is relevant to Gratheon because it informs entrance and behavior analytics in the Gratheon web app, colony-health diagnostics and Varroa/queen-state alerting, sensor hardware, telemetry pipelines, and monitoring dashboards. Its methods and findings can be translated into product requirements for reliable field deployments: what should be sensed, how signals should be interpreted, and which uncertainty or validation limits need to be surfaced to beekeepers. For Gratheon, the work is most useful as an evidence-backed design reference for connecting local hive observations with actionable recommendations in the web app while keeping hardware practical for remote apiaries.