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Social networks predict the life and death of honeybees

s 1234567890():,; Benjamin Wild 1,8 ✉, David M. Dormagen 1,8, Adrian Zachariae2,8, Michael L. Couzin 3,4,5 & Tim Landgraf 1 ✉ 3,4,5, In complex societies, individuals’ roles are reflected by interactions with other conspecifics. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) generally change tasks as they age, but developmental trajectories of individuals can vary drastically due to physiological and environmental factors.

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Authors
Benjamin Wild
Organizations
🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin🇩🇪 Robert Koch Institute🇩🇪 University of Konstanz🇺🇸 Auburn University🇺🇸 University of Hohenheim
Year
2021
Type
Journal

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. 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.