Method for training scout bees and letting scout bees fly

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for training detection bees and letting the detection bees fly. The conditioned stimulus (target smell) time, the conditioned stimulus (target smell) intensity, the unconditioned stimulus (syrup awarding) time and the unconditioned stimulus (syrup awarding) intensity of the bees are trained, partial bees in one swarm are trained every day and are trained to memorize a target smell; bees which master and memorize the target smell are put back to the original swarm, the target smell is placed in the position a certain distance away from the swarm, and the frequency of the observed phenomenon that the swarm of bees visit the target smell every day is recorded through a camera every day; the training intensity required for training one swarm of bees with respect to a certain target smell is estimated according to the date when the highest visiting frequency of the bees happens and the total of the bees put back at the same time, the most applicable number of days for searching the target smell by a trained swarm is determined according to the number of days when the bees visit the target smell at high frequency, and finally swarms are trained and let fly according to the training intensity and the best flying opportunity to achieve the purpose of searching suspicious targets in a region.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of animal behavior induction, in particular to a method for training and releasing scout bees. Background technique [0002] Training and releasing bees can help people search and find dangerous objects such as explosives and prohibited chemicals in a specific area. As early as 1999, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States began to train bees on the feasibility of searching for explosives, and by 2007, researchers at Zagreb University in Croatia Researchers formally train bees to clear mines. The way they train and release the bees is: place a bee colony in a net shed, place some small plates in the net shed, fill the plates with some syrup containing explosives, let the bees eat the syrup, after a period of time, Some bees in the colony learn and remember the smell of explosives, and then move the colony to the area to be searched for explosives. The researchers believe that us...

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Problems solved by technology

The researchers believe that using the feeding method to train a group of bees is much more difficult than training a single bee, and there are the following problems in applying the above-mentioned training and releasing a group of bees: 1) When feeding, it is necessary to move the net shed frequently, usually at night, and constantly The location of the syrup in the net shed was changed accordingly; 2) usually feeding for 1 day, followed by starvation for 1 day, and then feeding for 1 day, that is, feeding and starvation were used alternately to encourage the bees to learn and recognize the smell of explosives; 3) because The restriction in the net shed is only a small number of bees repeatedly feeding, and most bees in the bee colony cannot get the opportunity to fully learn and train, and the training intensity is limited; 4) It is impossible to estimate the best time to release the bee colony to find the target

In short, this method is only a qualitative method, and the training efficiency is low, and the training effect is not ideal. So far, there are relatively few successful cases of using this method to train and release bees to find dangerous targets

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