BIOMONITORING

Measure the impact of crop or landscape choices

The BeeGuard solution installed on a hive will allow you to obtain the availability of food resources to study compensation needs. What’s more, by measuring the daily mortality of the control colony, you’ll be able to make visible the absence or presence of collision between your cultural itinerary and the life of the pollinators. These new measurements will allow you to accelerate and optimize your continuous improvement process.

Continuously evaluate and enhance the impact of offsetting actions

You have set up Agroecological Infrastructures (AEI) to compensate for the impact of monoculture, land grabbing or an urbanization project.

Measuring the benefit of your actions represents a first return on investment of this approach. But it doesn’t end there. By evaluating food availability throughout the year, BeeGuard’s biomonitoring 

system allows you to classify periods of surplus (production of honey), balance (the usual objective), and periods of deficit (which you wish to reduce).

The compensation actions will be able to target the deficit periods to have maximum impact, and your approach will be able to progress further. The measurements BeeGuard’s biomonitoring 

system produce are robust as they take climatic conditions into account along with the general bee health. This way you react based on the sequences for which the bees were able to perform their work as bioindicators. The environmental data collected will be used to enhance this virtuous approach.

Evaluate and optimize the pollination service

For productions requiring pollination by insects, all quality criteria are impacted by the quality of the pollination service often performed by bees and contracted with beekeepers.

Strike ecological balance: there must be enough bees—but not too many—for the bees to work well and develop. There’s an economic tradeoff between the beekeeper and the farmer. Keeping these balance points requires a precise measurement of the pollination service.

Today, with BeeGuard pollination biomonitoring, it is possible to measure the foraging potential according to the weather, the impact of the foraging yield and the quantified foraging effort.

Assessing bee exposure to meet regulations

The bee decree of 2021 gives the opportunity to the agricultural world to experiment with the use of phytopharmaceutical products in order to identify decision support tools or other technologies whose use would provide guarantees in terms of exposure of bees and other pollinators. 

The biomonitoring solution for measuring activity and mortality can meet this need for experimentation. Thanks to these impact measurements in nature, the conclusions can be robust, objective, and accelerated.

Demonstrate or evaluate the non-toxicity of your products to bees

BeeGuard collaborates with research laboratories to use the BeeLive bee counter in non-return to hive analysis protocols.

The flexibility of the solution—with or without unitary recognition—allows beekeepers to practice protocols in controlled environment or in nature, making it an asset in preparation of MA applications.