Comments on: Germans evolve radio chip monitoring technology, Live Hive internet monitoring here? http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/03/10/germans-evolve-radio-chip-monitoring-technology-live-hive-internet-monitoring-here/                                     A tale of a beekeeper to be in the time of "CCD" Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jim http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/03/10/germans-evolve-radio-chip-monitoring-technology-live-hive-internet-monitoring-here/#comment-347 Jim Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:14:29 +0000 http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/03/10/germans-evolve-radio-chip-monitoring-technology-live-hive-internet-monitoring-here/#comment-347 Jerry Bromenshenk of U Montana pioneered the concept of putting sensors in beehives and connecting them to dataloggers and even computers, but the bees will propolize anything unusual, so one has to install them with care. Tautz's new book is very entertaining, but his claim “Until now, most beekeepers were familiar with only two circumstances — either a bee colony was alive or it was dead." is not at all true about the beekeepers in our Co-Op in NYC, and I suspect that it is also not true about your local beekeepers in SanFran. It certainly is not true of German beekeepers where Tautz works - the education of German beekeepers is perhaps the finest on the planet. Jerry Bromenshenk of U Montana pioneered the concept of putting sensors in beehives and connecting them to dataloggers and even computers, but the bees will propolize anything unusual, so one has to install them with care.

Tautz’s new book is very entertaining, but his claim

“Until now, most beekeepers were familiar
with only two circumstances — either a
bee colony was alive or it was dead.”

is not at all true about the beekeepers in our Co-Op in NYC, and I suspect that it is also not true about your local beekeepers in SanFran. It certainly is not true of German beekeepers where Tautz works - the education of German beekeepers is perhaps the finest on the planet.

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