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BeesBook: Tracking All Honeybees in the Observation Hive Over Their Lifetimes

This wiki provides an overview of the required hardware and software to set up a BeesBook system. Below you will find links to detailed sections covering all aspects of the BeesBook project, including installation instructions and tracking examples.

Sections

1. Introduction (this page)
2. Hardware Setup
3. Software: Detection and Tracking Pipeline
4. Software: Legacy
5. Tools for data analysis and running
6. Waggle Dance Detection

Want to know what the BeesBook system is? Read these papers:

• BeesBook Concept (Wario et al. 2015)
• Generating training data to detect honeybee markers (Sixt et al. 2017)
• Detecting and decoding honeybee markers (Wild et al. 2018)
• Lifetime Tracking (Boenisch et al. 2018)

Publications using the BeesBook system

• Social Network Analysis (Wild et al. 2021)
• Behavioral Variation Analysis (Smith et al. 2021)
• Social Interaction Patterns over Lifetimes (Wild et al. 2021)
• Honey bee drones are synchronously hyperactive inside the nest (Neubauer et al. 2023)
• How honeybees respond to heat stress from the individual to colony level (Jhawar et al. 2023)
• Machine learning reveals the waggle drift’s role in the honey bee dance communication system (Dormagen et al. 2023)