preliminary studies of honey queen bee conditions using cyranose 320 nose technology
利用cyranose 320电子鼻技术对蜂王蜂的初步研究
abstract
over the last ten years, the bee keeping industry has been struggling to understand and stop the sudden widespread loss or collapse of honey bee colonies, known collectively as colony collapse disorder (ccd), in the u.s. and around the world. while honey bee colonies experience many stressors that could cause a colony to collapse, we are focusing on the quality, health and reproductive ability of honey bee queens. the purpose of this line of research is to identify relationships between the pheromone signatures of honey bee queens and the quality of honey bee queens. the ultimate goal of this research is to find a reliable, non-invasive tool that does not harm the queen, but still allows beekeepers to make informed decisions about purchasing honey bee queens and deciding when to replace a queen bee before a colony collapses. in this portion of the research, we use an electronic nose (cyranose 320) device, which is a device that digitizes smells. the scope of this paper is to determine whether an e-nose device is viable for our research, and if so, to determine the best way to configure the settings to improve data collection. also, to gather data on queen bee pheromones production was considered since that is an indicator of a queen bee’s reproductive ability. we were able to use the e-nose device to digitize pheromone signatures from 20 queen bees. using microsoft excel and r programming language, we were able to see patterns that will be useful in configuring the e-nose device for future research. we also noticed an early indication that the e-nose can distinguish between a healthy bee and a sick bee.
在过去的十年里，养蜂业一直在努力了解和阻止蜂群的突然大面积损失或崩溃，这被称为蜂群崩溃紊乱(ccd)，在美国和世界各地。虽然蜂群经历了许多可能导致蜂群崩溃的压力源，但我们关注的是蜂群的质量、健康和繁殖能力。本研究旨在探讨蜂王信息素特征与蜂王品质的关系。这项研究的终目标是找到一种可靠的、非侵入性的工具，它不会伤害蜂王，但仍然允许养蜂人做出购买蜂王的明智决定，并在蜂群崩溃之前决定何时更换蜂王。在这部分研究中，我们使用电子鼻(cyranose 320)设备，这是一种将气味数字化的设备。本文的研究范围是确定电子鼻设备是否适用于我们的研究，如果适用，确定配置设置以改进数据收集的方法。此外，为了收集有关蜂王信息素生产的数据，人们考虑了这一点，因为这是蜂王繁殖能力的一个指标。我们能够使用电子鼻装置将20只蜂王的信息素信号数字化。使用microsoft excel和r编程语言，我们能够看到在将来的研究中配置电子鼻设备时有用的模式。我们还注意到早期的迹象表明，电子鼻可以区分健康的蜜蜂和生病的蜜蜂。