Measuring factors affecting honey bee attraction to soybeans using bioacoustics monitoring
Honey bee foraging activity in four soybean fields during the blooming period (R2-R3), as well as before or after bloom, was recorded continuously using Sony ICD-PX370 audio recorders affixed to a wooden stake and placed below the soybean canopy, at the height of the highest flowers, approximately 35 m from the field edge. Continuous recordings were broken into 1 hour chunks and recording sequences made at night were discarded. The wingbeat frequency of honey bees (234±13.9 Hz) was identified first using an automated method implemented in Python and using the package scikit-maad. Potential bee sounds were defined as anything within the range of 370-570 Hz with a duration of 1 sec. and a threshold intensity of 0.0001 using the “find_rois_cwt” function. Second, all automated detections were manually corrected by importing label files into the audio software Audacity.
Resources in this dataset:
Resource Title: Field B 2021 Soybean recording.
File Name: Field_B_2021_Soybean_recording.zip
Resource Description: Recordings made from 46 acre field planted in soybeans (Synergy 9720) on May 21, 2021. Zipped folder includes 1-hour audio files in OGG format and accompanying manually curated label files for Audacity in TXT format. Time and date of 1 hour recordings and accompanying Audacity label file encoded in file name, e.g. "chunk20210806_190000.ogg" was recorded on August 6, 2021 from 19:00-20:00.
Resource Software Recommended: Audacity,url: https://www.audacityteam.org/
Resource Title: Field C 2021 Soybean recording.
File Name: Field_C_2021_Soybean_recording.zip
Resource Description: Recordings made from 80 acre field planted in soybeans (Synergy 9727) on June 15, 2021. Zipped folder includes 1-hour audio files in OGG format and accompanying manually curated label files for Audacity in TXT format. Time and date of 1 hour recordings and accompanying Audacity label file encoded in file name, e.g. "chunk20210806_190000.ogg" was recorded on August 6, 2021 from 19:00-20:00.
Resource Software Recommended: Audacity,url: https://www.audacityteam.org/
Resource Title: Field A 2021 Soybean recording.
File Name: Field_A_2021_Soybean_recording.zip
Resource Description: Recordings made from 29 acre field planted in soybeans (Synergy 9720) on May 20, 2021. Zipped folder includes 1-hour audio files in OGG format and accompanying manually curated label files for Audacity in TXT format. Time and date of 1 hour recordings and accompanying Audacity label file encoded in file name, e.g. "chunk20210806_190000.ogg" was recorded on August 6, 2021 from 19:00-20:00.
Resource Software Recommended: Audacity,url: https://www.audacityteam.org/
Resource Title: Field D 2021 Soybean recording.
File Name: Field_D_2021_Soybean_recording.zip
Resource Description: Recordings made from 25 acre field planted in soybeans (Synergy 9720) on May 25, 2021. Zipped folder includes 1-hour audio files in OGG format and accompanying manually curated label files for Audacity in TXT format. Time and date of 1 hour recordings and accompanying Audacity label file encoded in file name, e.g. "chunk20210806_190000.ogg" was recorded on August 6, 2021 from 19:00-20:00.
Resource Software Recommended: Audacity,url: https://www.audacityteam.org/
Resource Title: Map of Soybean Fields for Recording 2021.
File Name: 2021_Soybean_recording_field_map.kmz
Resource Description: Map of four soybean fields (A-D) used for recording
Resource Software Recommended: Google Earth,url: https://earth.google.com
Funding
USDA-NIFA: 20196701329297
History
Data contact name
Johnson, ReedData contact email
johnson.5005@osu.eduPublisher
Ag Data CommonsIntended use
Identification of pollinator activity in blooming soybean fields using bioacoustics.Use limitations
Recordings were made from a single point in four fields and were recorded on July 21-24, July 26-28, and August 5-7, 2021.Temporal Extent Start Date
2021-07-21Temporal Extent End Date
2021-08-07Frequency
- continual
Theme
- Not specified
Geographic Coverage
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Apple Creek, Ohio, USAISO Topic Category
- environment
- farming
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
honey bees; foraging; soybeans; canopy; flowers; edge effects; automation; computer software; bioacoustics; monitoring; pollinatorsPending citation
- No
Public Access Level
- Public