Honey bee music? Are the bees playing music?

摘要

2011 was a very busy year on many accounts. I manage a small, experimental remotely-monitored apiary that I call StephensApiary.com. It is a beehive continuous lifecycle/behavior monitor combined with the vibro-acoustic array. I call it a platform orsuite of mechatronic applications for a beehive. Basically a bunch of mechanical stuff mixed with electronics all connected to the internet. During early Spring of 2011,1 moved the entire operation from Sacramento to a new facility nearSan Jose, California. The hives enjoyed a similar lifestyle as the previous year, with a plethora of forage options for their any desire within less than a quarter mile radius all year long. I had a similar array of piezo-ceramic transducers deployed inmy two hives during 2011 as in 2010. Additionally, I continued to identify these initiator and responder signals within the combs of both hives throughout the year. During the 2011 hive year I identified some seasonal variance in the number of pulses ofthe initiator signal. In the Spring and during the Summer the signal had eight pulses and during the Winter the signal had nine pulses. Now that I know that the signal varies, I may find even more variance in the future.