A matter of the beehive sound: Can honey bees alert the pollution out of their hives?

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-23322-z

	A matter of the beehive sound: Can honey bees alert the pollution out of their hives?
	Yu, Baizhong 1,3; Huang, Xinqiu 2; Sharif, Muhammad Zahid 1,3; Jiang, Xueli 1,3; Di, Nayan 1,3; Liu, Fanglin 1,3
刊名	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
	2022-10-01
关键词	Honey bees Apis cerana Beehive sound Environmental contaminants Machine Learning
ISSN号	0944-1344
DOI	10.1007/s11356-022-23322-z
通讯作者	Liu, Fanglin(flliu@ipp.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Honey bees (Apis spp.) are often used as biological indicators of environmental changes. Recently, bees have been explored to monitor air contaminants by listening to the beehive sound. The beehive sound is believed to encode information on bee responses to chemicals outside their hives. Here we conducted an experiment to address this. First, we randomly fed colonies with pure syrup (PS), acetone-laced syrup (AS), or ethyl acetate-laced syrup (ES) in front of the beehives and collect the beehive sound. Based on the audio data, we build machine learning (ML) models to identify the types of syrup. The result shows that ML models achieved over 90% accuracy for identifying syrup types, indicating that the bees inside their hives emitted the sound associated with the chemicals outside their hives. Then, we sequentially fed the colonies in the order of PS, ES, and AS (the first session) and again in the reverse order (the second session), but did not remove the accumulated ES or AS in the alternative feeding experiment. Based on the audio data, the identification accuracy of both ES and AS by the ML model built on the randomly feeding experiment was different, indicating that the accumulated chemical residuals could confuse the ML models. Therefore, the beehive sound-based environmental monitoring should simultaneously consider the responses of bees to the chemicals outside their hives and their responses to those accumulated inside their hives, which may act simultaneously.
资助项目	Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
WOS关键词	APIS-MELLIFERA ; COMMUNICATION ; RECOMMENDATIONS ; BIOMONITOR ; POLLUTANTS ; TOXICITY ; SOLVENT ; ACETONE
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
WOS记录号	WOS:000862533200007
资助机构	Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.hfcas.ac.cn:8080/handle/334002/129165]
专题	中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院
通讯作者	Liu, Fanglin
作者单位	1.Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230027, Peoples R China 2.Yunnan Acad Agr Sci, Sericulture & Apiculture Res Inst, Mengzi 661100, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Hefei Inst Phys Sci, Anhui Inst Opt & Fine Mech, Hefei 230031, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yu, Baizhong,Huang, Xinqiu,Sharif, Muhammad Zahid,et al. A matter of the beehive sound: Can honey bees alert the pollution out of their hives?[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH,2022.
APA	Yu, Baizhong,Huang, Xinqiu,Sharif, Muhammad Zahid,Jiang, Xueli,Di, Nayan,&Liu, Fanglin.(2022).A matter of the beehive sound: Can honey bees alert the pollution out of their hives?.ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH.
MLA	Yu, Baizhong,et al."A matter of the beehive sound: Can honey bees alert the pollution out of their hives?".ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH (2022).