Hi all, We are looking for methods to track bumblebees in a relatively small room/greenhouse (about 40 by 40 m). We would like to record the location of a bumblebee every second as precise as possible, including its visits to flowers. We are aware of the previous use of harmonic radar and have investigated the use of RFID tags. Standard RFID readers, however, do not have the required range to follow bumblebees during flight, although we could use them to register visits to flowers. We are not quite sure as to whether harmonic radar will work within greenhouses. We have also considered the use of cameras and video tracking software, but the resolution of the cameras makes any recognition of a bumblebee in a 40 by 40 m greenhouse very difficult.
Do you have any suggestions what we could use? Many thanks, Tom Huisman and Frank van Langevelde Resource Ecology Group Department of Environmental Sciences Wageningen University P.O. Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands http://www.reg.wur.nl/UK/
