>Bob and Dee:

>If you could plant a chip or chips for tracking hives,
>where would you place one?
>
>To super/box
>embedded in frame of drawn comb
>on bee for tracking back to hive

A chip for a bee that could remain on the bee for its life has yet to be 
produced -- we came close, but not small enough.  The antenna is the 
barrier -- we have nanoblock transmitters -- size of pencil point 
dot.  Very small antennas have dispersal/range problems.

For the box, frame -- we can provide the chips immediately -- @ 35c/each, 
in rolls of 500 or more.  Price depends on size of order.  These chips are 
superior to the $10 chips that Bob mentions -- farther ranger (5-20 ft 
read, versus inches), and the information on the chip can be locked OR 
reprogrammed using a security, encrypted password reader.  These chips can 
go in the box OR frame, can be buried in the wood or plastic -- so they are 
hidden.

For $40-50, we provide a battery-powered, 7 yr life, transmitting chip that 
we recommend for use on pallets.  With a battery swap (30 cents), you 
should get as much as 10 yrs from the chip, that drops cost to about 
$1/hive.  These chips have movement sensors in them.

We're just field testing a sentry system that can sit in a yard, and 
'watch' hives on pallets that have these transmitter chips.  When the 
pallet/hive moves, the chip speeds up its beep rate.  That activates a cell 
phone, and calls you or send a message to a computer.   Yesterday, we 
initiated and received a text message/alarm in 7 seconds.  That gives you a 
bit of time to have someone intersect the truck being loaded with your bees.

Jerry

P.S.  The less expensive tags can provide a chain-of-custody record of your 
honey, whether for organic honey, or protection against adulterated honey 
(accidental, intentionallly poisoned).  The talk Heather Clay from Canada 
gave at AHPA indicated that a contaminated LOT of honey found in Canada 
could result in orders to destroy the affect Lot, and the preceeding and 
succeeding lot.  If the LOT you have is a warehouse full of honey from a 
season -- that's going to hurt.





>Respectfully submitted,
>
>Dee A. Lusby
>Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
>Moyza, Arizona
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/
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