by Grace Twiston-Davies | Apr 25, 2017 | BEESCOUT, BumbleBEEHAVE, Profiles
The way in which we manage our landscapes is having a significant effect on bumblebee survival. There have been recent worldwide declines in bumblebee abundance and species richness due to loss of habitat, loss of forage resources, emerging diseases, and the...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Mar 28, 2017 | Applications, BEEHAVE, Honeybees
BEEHAVE model developer Matthias Becher recently gave a talk to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) about the potential use of BEEHAVE to investigate the effect of the predatory Asian hornet on honeybee colony survival. Matthias described how recent research...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Jan 27, 2017 | BEEHAVE, BEESCOUT
NetLogo 6 is now available with some useful new features such as the auto-completion of code and the option of collapsing procedures. However, there are a few problems and current users of BEEHAVE will need to do a small edit to the model before running BEEHAVE in the...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Nov 29, 2016 | Applications, BEESCOUT, BumbleBEEHAVE, Bumblebees, Impact
We have just started a new collaborative project between the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). This project will support and develop the AONB’s new pollinator...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Oct 26, 2016 | BEESCOUT, Outreach, Publications
Our latest model BEESCOUT (download here) has recently been showcased at the International Congress of Entomology and published in the Journal Ecological Modelling. BEESCOUT predicts landscape exploration behaviour of bumblebees and honeybees and is based on...
