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- Clarke, D., and D. Robert. 2018. Predictive modelling of honey bee foraging activity using local weather conditions. Apidologie 49:386-396.
They looked at the connection between foraging activity of honey bees and weather conditions. The rate at which the bees would leave was measured along with the temperature, solar radiation, atmospheric pressure, humidity, rainfall, wind direction and speed. There was a positive correlation between temperature and bee activity. The correlations were also mostly linear. Two foraging seasons were studied, July-September 2013 and June-September 2014, each year was a different bee hive.
