Colony can fully leave the hive in case of (argentine) ant infestation, so this is an important task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHL_-70gLFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuaPan9XsO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGYLT64wzGY

Typical ants rarely go inside of the hive, only if its abandoned or bee colony is weak.

(More research on ant-bee behaviour is needed)

AC

• collect ‣ for ants, maybe use iNaturalist? May need different ant types
• create (or use existing?) a model that can detect ants based on
  • a photo. This assumes ants are crawling on the beehive frames inside a hive, likely feeding on honey leftovers. This assumes either photo was taken manually, or, more likely - it came from Robotic Beehive as part of Full hive inspection
  • a video. This assumes we run Entrance Observer at the entrance and ants pass through it
• publish a github repo with a model
• ideally, model should expose HTTP interface for image and/or video upload
  • you can use https://github.com/Gratheon/models-bee-detector/blob/master/server.py as example

Bonus

• integrate model with image-splitter model that does frame analysis https://github.com/Gratheon/image-splitter
• Once we have ants detected in beehive frames, we should alert user that hey, colony is too weak or is infested → Alerts