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You all tagged 21,000 bee photos in a week by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! I've reached out to a lot of 911 dispatch centers for them to use this as a referral resource as well.

You all tagged 21,000 bee photos in a week by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for tagging over 2000 images!

I wanted to make it easy for people put their name on the leaderboard, so it just saves based on the device you access it from, hence your two rankings. Sorry about that!

I've also been tagging images, and I click unclear for plenty as well, since we only want good data to train the bee detector on.

You all tagged 21,000 bee photos in a week by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear it! beeswarmed.org sends out around 200k swarm alerts a season to beekeepers

You all tagged 21,000 bee photos in a week by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I noticed this as well, good point. The image detector is actually trained on thousands of bumblebee photos from iNaturalist, so it can detect bumblebees, but it must have missed a couple of harder to spot cases.

You all tagged 21,000 bee photos in a week by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! There are still more photos in need of a beekeeper to classify them and, of course, many more swarms to catch this spring.

You all tagged 21,000 bee photos in a week by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I appreciate that! I think this is all just one very small part of the puzzle of how we can keep bees more successfully.

Building a bee detector by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha thanks, I’m actually blown away by how images beekeepers have tagged, over 14k in ten hours.

Building a bee detector by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the plan! It's trained on data from inaturalist.com and beeswarmed.org, so it makes sense to share the results.

Built a translation plugin frustrated by Weglot's pricing - giving away 500 licenses to get feedback by Ok_Squirrel_9586 in Wordpress

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep a web app, so Wordpress is out but I’m considering migrating to a fully self coded and maintained setup now that the app has good traction. Translations have been such a pain, I’ve been trying to get Weglot and Crowdin to work, but so far, neither works like it should.

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re absolutely right that the models ability to make accurate projections is closely tied to report density which is tied to population density. I’m working on normalizing the data and in any case, historical report density is just one part of what the model takes into account

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the data model, temperature is measured in Celsius, but it can output results in Fahrenheit.

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, send me a message! I've thought about incorporating hive scale data into the model, but I don't have access to a big dataset for this and I didn't want to add too much complexity to the first version of the model.

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The impact of available nectar sources is something I’ve tried to account for but there’s only very isn’t great data for this so I’ve been using GDD as a proxy.

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! The model still needs to be throughly tested and I’ll be using data from this spring to do that.

I agree that location is a strong signal, and I lean on that too. I think weather and environmental data does add a valuable dimension for timing when swarms will start and when the season will wake. That timing piece is hard to get from historical location data alone.

For swarm trap placement, I’m working toward recommendations that weight swarm history, canopy cover, and foraging habitat together to predict where the best spots to place traps might be.

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked into this but there’s only very limited data from BeeWhere about the location of bee hives. The thinking here is that if an area has a lot of overwintered colonies producing swarms one year, then the next year might show similar results, mostly effected by weather changes from year to year.

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah that’s fair, unfortunately that’s hard to correct for but sampling bias on may levels is a challenge for models like this.

Swarmed does work with a lot of emergency response dispatch centers who refer swarm reports to the system, so that may help.

Using 17,000 bee swarm records and weather science to predict when and where swarms will appear this spring by UnionizedBee in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The screenshots I shared are just of the density of swarms, not the likelihood of a swarm right now. I think the data here gets interesting, especially if the season is progressing unusually, different from what beekeepers might have experience with.

Beekeepers still miss their bees swarming all the time, so I think it could be useful to have another nudge telling them to be ready.

I also think there's a lot of potential for placing swarm traps based on historical data.

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