Demonstrate

Our project does not have a finished product that is ready to be deployed in the field. However, we felt that we've accomplished a great many parts of our project and we want to show you what we did. In terms of a demonstration we've accomplished to be able to sense Varroa destructor mites using riboswitches. We can sense the guanine in mite feces and vitamin B12. Which we also tested on crushed up hive fragments. We can not demonstrate the BeeT product in the field, as this would break the do not release requirement. We also can not keep a bee hive in the lab, for obvious reasons. Therefore, we tested pieces of a bee hive for mite feces. We simulated the sugar water conditions, BeeT would encounter when applied, in the lab to check for survival. This is shown in Figure 2.

Additionally, we modeled the impact of BeeT on bee and mite dynamics under real world weather conditions. We show this in figure 3.

We also made a visualization of our design together with the Design Academy Eindhoven. You can see our design in our design page.