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EAS is a LONG ways from MT, but this year Frank Linton is hosting a one
hour Hive Stress Monitoring Devices Workshop, 4-5, on Thursday.
Robert Seccomb and I are coming to participate in the workshop. We plan
on unveiling our Hand-Held Acoustic Scanner for detection of bee diseases,
pests, and hive conditions such as queenless and Africanized bees, as well
as exposure to toxic chemicals. Randy calls this our Buck Rogers technology.
We've been working on this for several years under Phase I and II SBIR
awards from: (1) the DoD to develop use hive sounds to detect toxic chemicals
(bees have unique sounds for several different categories of chemicals - we
were nominated for a DoD innovation award for this application) and more
recently (2) USDA to extend this concept to bee diseases, pests such as
mites and hive beetles, and other uses.
We had a technological breakthrough this spring that greatly reduces the
cost of the instrument while greatly expanding capability. Our newest
scanner also adds monitoring of ultra-sonic sounds.
We've only got 10 minutes on the program, so we'll focus on the scanner,
which we will bring with us. We'll probably ship a bi-directional bee
counter for nuc hives, and carry information on our bee LIDAR for mapping bees
(at 35 #) and a fairly steep price, we don't ship the LIDAR unless we
intend to use it.
We're arriving Tuesday night, leaving Friday morning. We will be around
Wed and Thursday, if we make all of plane connections. Look us up, always
good to meet Bee-L friends. I missed the National Meetings last year - had
some surgery to replace damaged teeth.
Hope to see lots of you at EAS.
Best
Jerry
J.J. Bromenshenk
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