bees
bee_monitoring_workshops

1. The Theory + Reading List
2. The new BeeHives + ObservationBeehives
3. The Data Harvesting (Technology)
4. The Artworks and Projects
5. The HoneyComb

The idea is to build a horologium flore in the (rooftop)gardens.
We are researching now which flowers are inviting the bees at what time.
Linnaeus (1707), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, and known as the father of modern taxonomy, is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. He was among other things researching the possibility of a flower clock, but this was not linked to foraging bees.

bees and time : what can we learn from the bee-community?
time in the context of and related to : orientation (sun/hive/food), communication and foraging
Mapping the foraging fields and tracing flight routes …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaeus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_Frisch

Vindplaatsen-tester voor het bepalen en vinden van drachtbronnen
F.Haverkamp – Duisburg-W
Natuurwetenschappelijk Museum
1211 – HD/KT

1. Schijf met rode pijl op zonnewaarde plaatsen (zie tabel achterkant, bvb. 1 april – 15uur = “35”
2. Apparaat opengeklapt en loodrecht voor een dansende bij houden. Schijf met groene pijl zodanig draaien dat de arcering in de dansrichting staat. Het gradental boven aan de pijl merken.
3. Maskering over mekaar leggen.
4. Het gemerkte gradengetal door het draaien van de schijf met rode pijl onder elkaar brengen.
5. De groene pijl toont nu de richting van de vindplaats.
6. Met de stopwatch het aantal van de dansomlopen meten (zie tabel achterkant).
7. In het snijpunt van de richtingaanduiding en de afstandsring ligt de vindplaats!

Wohin? a pdf with instructions how to find the exact foraging areas of your honeybees.
wohin? by F. Haverkamp

city honeybees - piezo recordings with hive 03 at OKNO
Brussels, June 2011
2 piezo sensors were inserted into the hive: one in between the comb frames, and one right in front of the entrance.
The piezo's were connected to a small mixing panel, in order to normalize the soundlevel.
In the video we can see rather well how the sound is connected to the bees' actions. Purpose is to experiment further with piezo sensors connected to the hive, and to make a soundperformance together with the bees.

http://padma.okno.be/Ve2c67x2/00:00:00.000-00:04:37.000

A plexiglass windclock, based on a Da Vinci anemometer model. The clock has a gradient range from black to white, and a photosensor reads out the temporary values generated by the wind.
Test-Location 2: so-on’s OpenGreen rooftop, Brussels - a cold day in october. The proof : measuring the windtime and describing the OpenGreen rooftop garden in the center of Brussels. The wind-values, registrated by the photosensor, are linked to the list of plants growing in the rooftop garden. The stronger the wind blows, the more present the plantnames appear - expressed in fontsize.
The overall movie gets a voice-over by the bees of the garden: they comment on their foraging area and add another layer to the wind movie.
Plant names appearing black and white. appearing and clustering black on white and white on black. Plant names growing filling the screen space, appearing and disappearing, patterns travelling and morphing around centers of criteria that appear and disappear like growth and swarming.

http://padma.okno.be/Veeoqm2v/00:00:18.000-00:01:04.000

weatheroverview, week 42 october 2010 - time of recordings and registrations