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Bees wearing itty bitty QR codes reveal hive secrets


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Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs. More than the latest in apiarian fashion, the little tags serve a scientific purpose: tracking when bees go in and out of their hives to better understand how long honey bees spend foraging for food outside of their hives.

The work, a collaboration among entomologists and electrical engineers at Penn State, is the first step in solving a long-standing mystery of how far bees travel from their hives to collect pollen and nectar.

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-bees-itty-bitty-qr-codes.html

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That is pretty neat.  

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""Turns out, some bees just like hanging out in the entrance, and the camera will read them every time they walk by,"

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