By beehacker, on September 11th, 2010
This site explores the confluence of beekeeping and technology. It is targeted at the amateur and professional:
- beekeeper or bee lover
- scientist, engineer, inventor, DIYer
The primary goal is to develop new, Open Source technologies that can benefit the honey bee and everyone else that benefits from the honey bee. Continue reading Welcome To BeeHacker.Com
By beehacker, on May 9th, 2013
A single honey bee has a brain the size of a grass seed. That singular honey bee is able to do some pretty amazing th ings with that little seed.
- It is the only animal other than us to communicate in a symbolic language. A forager/scout bee communicates to other bees the distance and direction to nectar sources or potential new homes by performing a dance in the dark. (Video after the jump…) Continue reading Honey Bee Intelligence
By beehacker, on January 8th, 2013
I recently got an email from Frank Linton. Frank works at Mitre Corp and has been interested in hive monitoring for a long time. Last year, he organized the first workshop on hive monitoring at Eastern Apicultural Society’s annual conference in Vermont. I’ll let Frank speak for himself – the following is an excerpt . . . → Read More: Monitoring Honey Bee Colonies Electronically
By beehacker, on September 11th, 2012
 A really dead zombie honey bee after phorid fly larvae emerge
As if there were not enough pests that kills bees already, we can now add parasitic phorid fly to our list of worries. This fly, recently reported in PLoS, lays its eggs in the honey bee and this turns the honey bee into a zombie. Rather, the infected honey bee exhibits zombie-like behavior. According to a fascinating, new website, ZombeeWatch.org, “Honey bees infected by the Zombie Fly leave their hives at night and are attracted to nearby lights where they become stranded and eventually die.” Kinda like zombies. Continue reading Zombies, Citizen Science, & Motivation
By beehacker, on June 18th, 2012
In 1951:
- Average Cost of new house $9.000.00
- Average wages per year $3,510.00
- Cost of a gallon of Gas 19 cents
- Average Cost of a new car $1,500.00
- Loaf of Bread 16 cents
- Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- First Color Television Pictures broadcast from Empire State Building
- 22nd Amendment is ratified which limits US presidential term of office to 8 yrs ( 2 terms )
- United Nations forces recapture Seoul during the Korean War
- President Harry S Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur as commander of United Nations Forces
- The term Rock N Roll is coined by Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan Freed
- Paul F. Moss & Thelma Schnee produce the movie Bee City (movie after the link): Continue reading Bee City 1951
By beehacker, on May 27th, 2012
By beehacker, on May 22nd, 2012
Who ever thinks that self-gratification is somehow more rewarding than service to others has never taken 20,000 stinging insects into a 7th grade science class.
I recently took my newly built Ulster observation hive (click here for building instructions) with 5 frames of bees into a local elementary school. I had a PowerPoint presentation called Thank . . . → Read More: Beekeeper Rock Star
By beehacker, on May 7th, 2012
 The_Queen_Must_Die by William Longgood
Have you ever read a book, thoroughly enjoyed it, and wondered why everyone didn’t enjoy it as much as you. Reading a book is a mostly creative process – the dry words of printed books are like mallets on the chimes of our experience. That is what makes reading such a personal experience. For too many people, all books sound tinny. For experienced beekeepers, The Queen Must Die resonates long and harmoniously. Continue reading Review of ‘The Queen Must Die’
By beehacker, on February 1st, 2012
One of the bloggers I admire most is Linda Tilman of Linda’s Bees – not so much because she is a Master Bee Keeper – which she is – but because she is self-confident enough to share her own failures as well as her successes on her blog pages. That is what makes her . . . → Read More: 2011 Beekeeping Mea Culpas
By beehacker, on January 9th, 2012
 Robobee
You may remember about one year ago, I posted a video of robotic flying multicopters building a structure. I was so intrigued that I have built my own robotic quadcopter based on the Arducopter design with the intent of engineering a true autonomous swarm. But more on that at a future date. Here is RoboBees (click here) - a research project at Harvard seeking to develop mechanical structures that fly – inspired by bees and enabled by microelectronic fabrication technology. The mechanical device shown is the size of a penny but the MEMS technology could be used to build something much smaller. The video below shows the result of the manufacturing process but they also have videos of this thing flying and are working on an optical sensor and swarm behaviors.
Video after the jump… Continue reading Harvard’s RoboBee Project
By beehacker, on September 19th, 2011
I am pleased to report that ‘beehacker’ has been entered into the lexicon of popular culture. WordSpy, “the word lover’s guide to new words”, has identified an emerging new meme: beehacker. A beehacker has been defined as
n. A beekeeper who uses digital tools and technology to help monitor and manage a . . . → Read More: Entomologist: Meet Etymologist
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