[BeeHero beekeepers inspecting frames in hive]
[Frame full of bees]
[BeeHero employees]
[Bees on frame]
Doreet Avni (interview): “We just had to manually open every individual hive, look for a queen, look for the brood, see that everything is ok. Same for beekeepers. And now you can just get an app and you get all the information on the app.”
[Sensor being placed on frame]
[Sensor seen on frame in hive]
[Sensor]
[Gateway on exterior of hive that transmits metrics to cloud]
[BeeHero VNR]
Doreet Avni (interview): “With our technology we can see very early if something is wrong in the colony. So for example in the case of pesticide or case of queen loss or any other problem that the colony has, the beekeeper can come and do something very quickly. Otherwise they can come three four five weeks too late.”
[Avni smoking bees and opening hive]
[Bees]
[Bees on frame]
[Queen bee]
[Yuval Regev, CTO]
[Regev holding sensor]
Yuval Regev (interview): “The sensor located in the centre of the hive and its main purpose is to say what is the current situation inside the hive. Basically he translates the communication between the bees to a language the beekeepers can understand. If you like this is exactly what Google Translate do between two languages. So we translate bee language to human language and then we provide the insights for the beekeeper to take an action in the right time, in the right place with the minimum interference for the bees.”
[BeeHero VNR]
[Sharoni Shafir, professor, Entomology Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem]
Sharoni Shafir (interview): “Beekeeping has been around for many, many years but the whole Earth has changed a lot. Culture is changing very quickly. I mean, we don’t know what will be the future of beekeeping, but it seems like the kind of changes that happen in agriculture, where we have now very precise agriculture, smart agriculture, much more technological agriculture, in terms of sensing plants and the soil and humidity and so forth, and the kind of changes that have happened in poultry or cattle growing, are also happening in beekeeping.”
[Swarm of Bees]
[Regev seated in office]
[BeeHero app]
Yuval Regev (interview): “We have to ensure that we have more and more bees in order to feed the world. I don’t think we can do it without technology and technology helps to save and helps the bees for better pollination and better everything that we rely on bees for. So I totally believe that we will see all of the beekeepers in the world use this or other kind of technology in their hives.”
[BeeHero representatives looking at hive]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.