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University of Montana Professor finds promise in poison-detecting bees. "Bee Alert"

March 9, 2007 /

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It’s an unusual partnership, honeybees and software engineering, but for one University of Montana research team, the two go together like, well, bees and honey.

“I didn’t know anything about bees,” said Larry Tarver, a software engineer at the UM-affiliated Bee Alert Technology Inc., http://beekeeper.dbs.umt.edu/bees/ who graduated from UM’s computer science program a few years back.

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Much of the electronic equipment used by Bromenshenk and his research team is manufactured by S & K Electronics http://www.skecorp.com/ based in Ronan, and much of the laser equipment used to track bee traffic in and out of the hive is manufactured at Montana State University http://www.montana.edu/ in Bozeman. “Made in Montana really does apply,”
Bromenshenk said of the operation.

Story by Emily Darrell
Montana Kaimin

Full Story: http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/news/news_article/prof_finds_promise_in_poison_detecting_bees/

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