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Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Andy Fell<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you weigh a bee? That\u2019s the question that brought together insect specialists at the University of California, Davis, and two teams of UC Davis engineering students this year, to try and solve what turns out to be a tricky technical problem. But the consequences are important: ultimately, understanding how California\u2019s native bumblebees respond to changes in the environment and the availability of flowers, and how we can protect these insects that are so vital to both agriculture and wild plants.<\/p>\n

Neal Williams, associate professor of entomology who heads up the \u201cbee side\u201d of the project, called it a great example of interdisciplinary work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great example of what should happen at a research university,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 team wants to understand everything about the life of a bumblebee colony, and especially how a colony reacts to change in the availability of pollen and nectar from flowers, their primary food source.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to understand how bees respond to the availability of resources in their habitat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bees and \u2018flower deserts\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n

California\u2019s wildflowers have disappeared as land has been converted for agriculture, creating \u201cflower deserts.\u201d Bees can respond to a short-term loss of resources by changing the demographics of the colony, for example producing more or fewer worker bees, or more reproductive males and females. What Williams and his team want to know is:\u00a0what effect do those short-term changes have on bees\u2019 ability to adapt to change in the future, and what does it mean for their long-term prospects?<\/p>\n

To understand that, Williams and postdoctoral researcher Rosemary Malfi are collecting a lot of information about their bees. They photograph the adults when they emerge from the pupal stage, to count sterile workers and reproductive castes. A tiny RFID chip is glued to each insect\u2019s back. Each hive is housed in a cooler, with one plastic tube leading in and out. An RFID reader records each individual bee entering or leaving the hive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know how old they are, how big they are, what they are doing,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n

But to really know how each bee is doing, the entomologists want to know how much they weigh. That would tell them how well-nourished the bees are, and if they could make the measurement sensitive enough, they could measure how much pollen they bring back to the hive on every foraging trip.<\/p>\n

So they were faced with a problem: How to weigh a tiny, jittery insect that will only stand on scale for fractions of a second. It was time to call in some engineers.<\/p>\n

Engaging with engineers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In spring quarter 2015, Williams visited an electrical engineering class taught by Andre Knoesen, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to talk about his problem. Knoesen immediately saw it as a great senior-year project for engineering students.<\/p>\n

Undergraduate engineers in their senior year usually undertake a team \u201ccapstone\u201d project, which gives them an opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge. At UC Davis, those senior projects often draw in researchers from other areas of the university, for projects used in veterinary and human medicine, agriculture, wildlife biology and many other fields.<\/p>\n

\u201cEngineering is inherently multidisciplinary, but it is becoming increasingly important that our students be educated to effectively communicate with scientists and humanists to solve problems important for society,\u201d Knoesen said.<\/p>\n

The \u201cbee scale\u201d project ultimately gave rise to two team projects, one of electrical engineering students and the other, majoring in mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project involved undergraduate students from multiple engineering disciplines collaborating with senior scientists to design and implement a device to be used in ongoing research \u2014 it was an exciting opportunity for our students and an example of multidisciplinary education that we can offer students here at UC Davis,\u201d Knoesen said.<\/p>\n

The electrical engineers had to solve the problem of taking the raw signal from the scale and obtaining time-stamped data for individual bees.<\/p>\n

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A bumblebee leaving an experimental colony housed in a cooler. The “bee scale” to weigh the insects has to be placed in this tunnel. Photo: Kathy Keatley Garvey<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe were working with very small signals, at the low end of the technology, so noise in the data was an issue,\u201d Troxell said. A bumblebee weighs between 150 and 200 milligrams, and to get useful information about bee health or how much pollen they are carrying, the scale would need to be accurate to less than one milligram. A conventional laboratory balance averages several readings over a few seconds \u2014 but bees are much too fast and jittery for that to work.<\/p>\n

Their measurements were so tiny that bee footsteps could throw them off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to ask the entomologists about the speed of bee footsteps so we could negate the noise in the data,\u201d Troxell said.<\/p>\n

Learning to work in teams<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When the mechanical engineers joined the project, they found themselves go-betweens, working with both the entomologists and the electrical engineers, Gibbons said. They had to design and build a mechanism that would do what Williams\u2019 team required while providing the electrical engineers with a useable data stream.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very interesting challenge,\u201d she said. \u201cAs mechanical engineers we\u2019re used to a very methodical approach, but this is as much about working with people as it is about mechanics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams said he\u2019s excited with the progress so far. The teams have been able to get readings to within tens of milligrams. Some of the students may continue the work over the summer, and Williams said that it might become a graduate student project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s been fantastic has been the integration between the teams,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThis is the way a design process should work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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