It is important to realize that bees can pose a significant threat, especially in great numbers when they have become aggravated. Using home remedies or insecticide will get the bees to swarm and attack. Although one sting is painful, it is not serious unless a bee allergy exists. However, ...
These studies led to different theories which are highly suitable to meet the needs of engineering applications. In a honey bee swarm, the tasks are dynamically assigned and the bees are adapts to the new environment in a collaborative intelligent manner [S1,S2,S3]1. In the recent past, ...
As the days grow longer, the Queen increases her rate of egg production and colonies wishing to swarm may start to raise swarm cells and colonies with failing queens may start supersedure cells. These will hatch in 16 days. Weather permitting, a few early swarms could occur in March. Food ...
Dreaming about a swarm of bees could be symbolic of hard work or having too much on your hands to do. If you dream about a queen bee, it could be symbolic of a controlling or dominant woman. In a dream, if a bee stings you, it could be an indicator of hurtful words that someone...
ready to march off to bee-devil Bayer the Slayer. The plan was simple: make a beeline for the Bayer plant on Ninth Street and "Swarm!" A parade of people bedecked as bees is certain to stir up enthusiasm from neighbors and drivers and, sure enough, horns were tooted in sympathy as ...
(ABCA) has emerged in the field of swarm intelligence [25,26,27], with the ability to effectively avoid falling into local optimum. It has already been applied to various problem domains, such as image segmentation [28,29,30], data clustering [31], and digital filters [32] and has ...
Her history, however, will rarely be as uneventful as this, for the bees will not often renounce their desire for a second swarm. In that case, as before, quick with the same desires, the queen will approach the royal cells; but instead of meeting with docile servants who second her ...
Bees have their own agenda. This swarm was high in a Douglas-fir tree. Who gets to live where? On the first sunny day following the rain, my husband said, “I think you have bees in your top-bar hive.” The thing is, my top-bar hive had gone empty last fall. After living there...
Berth allocation is one of the crucial points for efficient management of ports. This problem is complex due to all possible combinations for assigning shi
2. Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Algorithm The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm was first proposed by Karagoga to search for near-optimal solutions [47]. The ABC algorithm is based on the foraging behaviors of bees, and mimics the interactions that occur in swarm intelligence to solve ...