Read of some research into fitting tiny devices to honey bees to track where they go by a geo ~ stationary satellite.
Seems unlikely. Geo-stationary satellites are more than 20,000 miles high, anything they receive needs a lot of substantial equipment. A big dish mounted on a van is about as mobile as it usually gets sending signals to them. Satellite geo-location (aka sat-nav) receives from satellites in lower orbit. It's a weak signal and needs some digital processing of the sort found on your dashboard or phone. Even the smallest receivers are a few grams; substantial attached to birds, far too heavy for bees.
There was a talk at the National Honey Show by Margaret Couvillon who was based at LASI. The group used analysis of waggle dances to work out forage sources. Observation hives, lots of video and careful sampling of the direction and duration produced enough samples to show the forage patterns produced over weeks across agricultural crops, gardens and nature reserves.
Electronic tracking that has been documented uses harmonic radar. That's a fairly simple device that bounces back high frequency signals with a frequency shift. No power or processing, so it can be light but the signals are weak and local over a few metres, there's as detailed a description as I've seen here:
http://nzes.org.nz/nzje/free_issues/NZJEcol21_2_187.pdf Technology has moved on over a few years but the short distances mean you're confirming what's almost in visual range, not following a full forage range of miles.
If you have any references they could be interesting but probably not involving satellites outside the mapping of results.
