MANAGEMENT DEVICE OF BUMBLEBEE AND CULTIVATION FACILITY AS WELL AS MANAGEMENT METHOD OF BUMBLEBEE

• Main Authors: MIURA GENTA, NAGAHATA ITSUKA, NAKAJIMA HIROSHI, TANAKA TORU, FUKI TAKEHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 21.10.2021
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CALCULATING; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED; FISHING; FORESTRY; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS; PHYSICS; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRAPPING; WATERING

To provide a management device of bumblebees in which the excessive visit to flowers can be suppressed by properly managing the number of bumblebees appearing from a beehive.SOLUTION: A management device 40 of bumblebees comprises an imaging unit 42, a determination unit 446 and an adjustment unit 46. An imaging unit 42 images the bumblebees coming out of a hive gate 32 of a beehive 30. A determination unit 446 determines whether or not the number of worker bees coming out of the hive gate 32 reaches a threshold value from an image imaged by the imaging unit 42. The adjustment unit 46 obstructs the worker bees from coming out of the hive gate 32, when the determination unit 446 determines the reaching of the threshold value.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】巣箱から出るマルハナバチの数を適正に管理することで過剰訪花を抑制することができるマルハナバチの管理装置を提供する。【解決手段】マルハナバチの管理装置４０は、撮像部４２と、判定部４４６と、調整部４６と、を含む。撮像部４２は、巣箱３０の巣門３２から出るマルハナバチを撮像する。判定部４４６は、撮像部４２で撮像される画像から巣門３２から出た働きバチの数がしきい値に達したか否かを判定する。調整部４６は、判定部４４６がしきい値に達したと判定した場合に、働きバチが巣門３２から出ることを妨げる。【選択図】図１