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Nate’s Honey and Sweet Harvest Foods are using AI devices to monitor hive sounds and a robotic hive to help detect whether Varroa mites are spreading, according to a Business Insider video report.

The approach targets two pressures on beekeepers: pests and the strain of moving hives. Whether these tools can help produce more honey remains an open question, rather than a result established in the report. AI listening for trouble in a hive is a rather more grounded use case than most futuristic promises. Could this kind of monitoring make a meaningful difference for beekeepers, or will the real test be whether it improves colony survival?

Discuss: Could AI sound monitoring and robotic inspection make a meaningful difference to colony survival, or should beekeepers put their trust in other methods?

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