# Tech firms use remote monitoring to help honey bees

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**Created:** [16 June 2021 04:48 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/tech-firms-use-remote-monitoring-to-help-honey-bees/10562 "2021-06-16T04:48:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [16 June 2021 04:48 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/tech-firms-use-remote-monitoring-to-help-honey-bees/10562/1 "2021-06-16T04:48:51Z")

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> **Beekeeping is one of the oldest industries in existence, but it faces numerous threats. A number of tech firms hope to help the honey bee have a brighter future.**
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> Noah Wilson-Rich, chief scientific officer of US firm Best Bees Company, says it is distressing how many American honey bee colonies, or hives as they are otherwise known, die off every year.
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> Hit by a [deadly parasitic mite,](https://nationalbeeunit.com/index.cfm?pageid=93) pesticides and climate change, [a survey showed that between April 2019 and 2020 43.7% of US hives were lost](https://beeinformed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BIP_2019_2020_Losses_Abstract.pdf). That was the second-highest annual figure since that particular study started in 2010.

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> **[Tech firms use remote monitoring to help honey bees](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57397182)**
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> From Ireland to Israel, companies are coming to the aid of the environmentally critical insect.

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**Author:** ![davearonson](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/davearonson/32/591_2.png) [@davearonson](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/davearonson)\
**Post date:** [18 June 2021 01:12 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/tech-firms-use-remote-monitoring-to-help-honey-bees/10562/3 "2021-06-18T01:12:33Z")

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Support the bees, drink mead! 🙂