Swarm Intelligence: Concepts, Models, and Applications

The ultimate goal is too develop an improved hive for monitoring bee’s conditions with minimal human intervention and closer to an ideal habitat of the bees.

In the article “Biologists Discover Sophisticated ‘Alarm’ Signals in Honey Bees”, Kim McDonald talks about how scientists have recently discovered that honey bees can deliver warning signals. She discusses with James Nieh, a scientist studying bees, about the experiments that were conducted at The Chinese Academy of Science and Eastern Bee Research. Nieh says how they used hornets such as the Vespa Mandarina and Vespa Velutina to encourage the Apis Cerana honey bees to emit their signal. When talking about the signals produced, Nieh says, “Our experiments showed that these different types of stop signals elicited different and appropriate responses. Bees attacked at food sources by bigger hornets produced a kind of stop signal that more effectively

In centuries, the honey bee has a very important role in our agriculture. According to Watanabe, Honey bee approximately benefits $10 billion of crops, including almonds, apples, and alfalfa every year in the United State (Pollination Worries rise As Honey Bees Decline, 1170). In addition, The National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) had estimated 2660 million honey producing colonies in 2015 (2017). Based on honey bees’ behavior, they can expand nearly all habitable corners of the globe which made them highly adaptable species (Dennis, 80). With adaptable capability and high productivity, our beekeepers can able to maintain their life

Earth has about 20,000 different species of bees, which are wonderful insects that have impacted Earth in many ways for at least 100 million years. The following few paragraphs will include information on what bees do to help the Earth, life in the hive, and their deaths. Paragraph one will include information on what bees do to help the Earth. Paragraph two will include information on how bees live their lives. Paragraph three will include information on death and extinction of bees.

Beekeepers began noticing the inexplicable vanishing of entire honeybee hives, a phenomenon known as Colony

The establishment of bees’ nesting sites in the wild, and the outside forces that affect habitat destruction is abundant. Many of the nesting development in terms of, disturbed habitats play an prominent figure in the system of bees and their nesting development. Their adaptations of living have evolved due to the dramatic environmental change in their ecosystem, in which they are reliant on upon survival, nesting, and reproducing (Graham, J.M,1992). They grow and thrive in the cells of the honey bee hives, and use for storing nectar, pollen, and honey. Bees are similar to our society, has a simultaneously managing system of government, in other words, one bees’ responsibility many differentiate from other bees’ and so on (Winston, M. L.,1987).

Honeybees are social insects that live in eusocial communities in which the bees partake in complex activities and live in well-organized groups. There are three types of bees that exist within the hive: the queen, the drone, and the worker. Each colony has one queen bee, whose primary function is reproduction. She also produces pheremones which represses the ovarian development in the worker bees which unifies the colony and maintains her position as queen, until a new one takes over. Drones are the male bees of the colony, and their sole purpose within the hive is for reproduction. Worker bees perform all of the duties to maintain the hive, including building cells, care for and feed the young, care for the queen, handle nectar to produce honey, and guard the

Hazarika M., Laha D., Machine-part cell formation for maximum grouping efficacy based on genetic algorithm, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions (WCI), 2015, pp 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/WCI.2015.7495521

An average bee colony produces 27.2-45.4 kg of honey each year. Colonies are grouped in a three-tier organization consisting of 50.000-70.000 workers, one queen, and 2.000 drones. Worker bees only live for three to six weeks, each one collecting about one teaspoon of nectar. One kilogram of honey requires 3.96kg of nectar, which requires approximately four and a half million flowers to collect. When worker bees are about 20 days old they leave the hive to collect nectar, the sweet recreation produced by flowers’ glands. Bees extract the liquid from various flowers using their long tube-shaped nose. The nectar is stored in bees’ extra stomach where the fluid is mixed with many enzymes which change nectar’s chemical composition and pH making

The thought of bees usually makes us feel a bit frightened- they buzz loudly, and their stings are painful. But most people don’t know that those buzzing hard workers have an enormous impact on mankind, and in fact, without them we might, in the faraway future, cease to exist.

Research on the behavior of bees oddly resembles that of humans. Some worker bees lay their own eggs, a function usually reserved only for the queen. These worker laid eggs are usually eaten so the social order of the hive does not get disrupted (Luntz, pg.1) “One hive examined showed that worker bees were successful in laying and producing eggs, and also protecting them in areas the queen was excluded” (Luntz, pg.1). This works as an advantage by furthering generation when they are endangered, but also a disadvantage to the world, because bees are busy reproducing, when they should be pollinating the Earth (Luntz, pg. 1). Genetically altering the beehive, is needed to maintain a healthy genome and successful hive. The honeybee genome was finally

Swarms of bees are “docile and don’t have a home to protect,” Maness told students. Part of his job is to gather the bees and relocate them to a hive.

Abstract Bees are the backbone of agriculture and they are the main reason we have plants in our garden. It is no mystery where the term worker bee came from, because 90% of crops cannot grow without the pollination of bees (6). In addition to pollinating a vast amount of nature, they also make creations of their own, and produce a surplus of honey. The taxonomy for these organisms is classified as Apis mellifera.

A massive decline in the honeybee population began in 2006 as a phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD) spread across the United States and Europe. Caused by a variety of both natural and man-made threats to the eco-system of bees, CCD ultimately results in the total abandonment of a hive – the bees simply vanish. No dead bees surround the hive. And, there is no sign of a queen. The bees are nowhere to be found.

The Robobee was initially designed for the artificial crop pollination; however, the bees can be used for other applications such as search and rescue missions in areas where larger robots cannot fit. By communicating with each other, the robobees in a swarm will relay the information through each other back to the control without having to wait for the particular robot to get back. This means that the information from the field reaches the control room faster compared to the time a single robot would take to take back the information.