Bees get tiny tracker backpacks
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Thousands of honey bees in Australia are being fitted with tiny sensors as part of a world-first research program to monitor the insects and their environment using a technique known as 'swarm sensing'.
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Bee sensors
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Thousands of honey bees in Australia are being fitted with tiny sensors as part of a world-first research program to monitor the insects and their environment using a technique known as 'swarm sensing'.
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A bee sits on a honeycomb from a beehive at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague September 6, 2013. REUTERS/David W Cerny/Files
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Thousands of honey bees in Australia are being fitted with tiny sensors as part of a world-first research program to monitor the insects and their environment using a technique known as 'swarm sensing'.
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File photo of honey bees swarming on a honeycomb at a farm in Jordan Valley
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File photo of bees on their hive in Paris
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A team of Australian researchers has come up with a new way to track bees, in order to study how they're affected by Colony Collapse Disorder. They want to put tiny sensors on their backs — a bee backpack, if you will — that will allow them to follow the bees' movements in real time. Find out more here.