摘要
蜜蜂是一种社会性昆虫,在授粉和生态服务中起重要作用。然而,它们巢门口行为却很少受到关注。在本研究中,我们试图应用ImageJ来计数东方蜜蜂和西方蜜蜂在巢门口爽飞形成"蜜蜂云团"时候的数量。结果表明ImageJ可以用来准确计数西方蜜蜂巢口个体数量高达180只和东方蜜蜂巢口个体数量高达90只蜜蜂的"爽飞云团"。当同时飞行的个体不到30只时,通过ImageJ自动计数的效率可以达到100%,而当蜜蜂数量增加时,效率仍能维持在93%左右的水平。因此,在蜂箱前使用ImageJ计数蜜蜂数量的方法是可行并且高效的,并讨论了提高计数效率改进方法和注意事项。与高劳动消耗计数方法相比,ImageJ计数法是一种友好、高效的监测蜂箱入口活动的方法,甚至可以将此方法的原理并入未来的智能蜂巢监控系统开发中,专门用于观察有大量个体活动的蜜蜂行为,如爽飞行为、分蜂行为和飞逃行为等。
Honeybees are eusocial insects,which play an important role in pollination and ecological service.However,their entrance activities are highly overlooked.In the present study,we try to apply ImageJ to count bee numbers of"bee cloud"at both entrance of Apis mellifera and Apis cerana.The results showed that ImageJ could be used to count bee numbers of"bee cloud"up to 180 individuals for A.mellifera and 90 individuals for A.cerana,respectively.The efficiency of automatically counting via ImageJ could reach 100%when there were less 30 individuals flying at the same time,while the efficiency reduced to around 93%when bee numbers increased.It was proved to be a reliable method to count bee hive entrance activities.Compared with highly labor-consume counting method,we believe this would be a friendly-using and efficient method to monitor bee hive entrance activities.It could even be built in smart hive monitor system in future,specially for observing large number activities such as orientation flight,swarming and absconding.
作者
李永明
郭绍方
曲玉凤
汪正威
Li Yongming;Guo Shaofang;Qu Yufeng;Wang Zhengwei(College of Biology and Chemistry,Pu’er University,Pu’er 665000,China;CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology,Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Kunming 650223,China)
出处
《中国蜂业》
2021年第11期60-62,共3页
Apiculture of China
基金
江苏省市场监督管理局科技计划项目(KJ207545)。
