During recent years, one of the most familiar names scaling new heights and creating a
benchmark in the world is the Internet of Things (IoT). It is indeed the future of …

Traditionally, measurement of the acute toxicity of pesticides to beneficial arthropods has
relied largely on the determination of an acute median lethal dose or concentration …

Sensor miniaturization enables applications such as minimally invasive medical procedures
or patient monitoring by providing process feedback in situ. Ideally, miniature sensors …

Beekeepers have experienced significant losses to the population of their hives in recent
years due to a phenomenon that was once referred to as the Colony Collapse Disorder …

The development of insecticides requires valid risk assessment procedures to avoid causing
harm to beneficial insects and especially to pollinators such as the honeybee Apis mellifera …

Bumblebees and other pollinators provide a vital ecosystem service for the agricultural
sector. Recent studies however have suggested that exposure to systemic neonicotinoid …

Academic research into radio frequency identification (RFID) has proliferated significantly
over the last few years, to the point where journals (Production and Operations …

Many complex factors have been linked to the recent marked increase in honey bee colony
failure, including pests and pathogens, agrochemicals, and nutritional stressors. It remains …

The increasing miniaturisation of animal-tracking technology has made it possible to gather
exceptionally detailed machine-sensed data on the social dynamics of almost entire …

Radio telemetry has been widely used to study the space use and movement behaviour of
vertebrates, but transmitter sizes have only recently become small enough to allow tracking …