Why
Varroa mites are the biggest danger to colonies today
- they feed on larvae, pupae, adult honey bees
- they leave open wounds
- they consume fat body of a bee, making bees weak (immune response, energy storage, detoxification)
Suggested solution
App integration
- Prepare the data. For this we need to cut regions from the original frame where we detect bees - see Worker bee detection
- use AI model like yolo, get weights to detect and count mites on individual bees
- return absolute number of mites found in an image
- add http API to this model
- integrate image-splitter with this model - it manages frame photos
- store result in DB (a db migration would be needed)
- display mite infection % per frame and per hive in web-app
- generate an alert beekeeper if its above some treshold after some period of time (blocked by another issue)
Related possible detections
- detect deformed wings virus that is spread by varroa