Automatic Camera Monitoring: A Window into the Daily Life of Pollinators

Although on-site human observations have predominated, today’s widespread availability of digital monitoring equipment has enabled unique data on flower visitors to be collected. In his research, Dr Ronny Steen used a time-efficient automated procedure for monitoring flower-visiting animals - namely foraging bumblebees visiting focal white clovers and honeybees visiting thistles. The objectives were to model daily activity and to test the use of a cheap off-the-shelf digital camera, Canon PowerShot®, with CHDK motion-detection script, for monitoring of flower visitors. You can read the full article that this video is related to here: bit.ly/2cWwJFM (subscription required)