It was a pleasure working with Dr. Erica Sarro Gustilo and Dr. Hollis Woodard on “RFIDbee,” a low-cost open-source RFID insect tracker that was used by Erica and Hollis to study queen bumble bees in this study in the journal Ecology and Evolution.

Want to build your own RFIDbee? The hardware and software is available for download on open.groverlab.org!

Massive thanks to the National Science Foundation and the Frank G. and Janice B. Delfino Agricultural Technology Research Initiative at the University of California Riverside for funding the development of RFIDbee!