Hive Sounds

[boywonder]

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to any kind of succinct information about how to interpret changes in the acoustic output of a colony... An article, blog, section of a well known book etc...

For example I think I know (from the Seeley and other sources) that piping (indicative of swarming and queen emergence) is in the 200-250Hz zone, but am curious to understand what other changes to the both the frequency and the volume levels in a hive might indicate.

Reason? I recently bought a remote hive monitoring rig (please don't judge me - it's my money!) ... just to scratch the itch, really.

Early days, but I think it's remarkable. The data is illuminating (e.g. the hive lost 0.5kg in the last 24h alone)........ but I really, really want to get to grips with the sound data. It measures both frequency and volume (amplitude).

Any steer welcome. Cheers

 

[boywonder]

For example I think I know (from the Seeley and other sources) that piping (indicative of swarming and queen emergence) is in the 200-250Hz zone

... And I had clearly misremembered that. I've just located the table below, which is interesting: