Satellite data will give insight on bee behavior

High-tech satellites, combined with low-tech methods on the ground, soon will be used to help understand how bees are responding to climate change – and to predict how far the aggressive Africanized bees will spread in North America. “One of the questions is how well they’ll be able to pick up the flowering events that are important for bees” from the satellite data, says ASU’s Jon Harrison, a School of Life Sciences professor. “There’s been a tremendous disparity in predictions for how far north Africanized honeybees are going to go,” Harrison says, in part because what limits their expansion is not understood. Article source: Discovery News