Bee buzzing audio dataset

[GuntisL]

Hello, Can anyone suggest where to find large audio dataset of bee buzzing also with some kind of classification, like hive with queen, with out queen, preswarming stage, swarming stage, unhealthy, etc? . I have lot of samples where I know that there is a bee sound, but is there available dataset to play around where there are separate audio files in different classes?

[clemens]

You can find some samples of bee sound from hives with queens and queenless under:

Sound Samples and Basic Analysis Hive with Queen vs. Queenless

Background For an initial proof of concept about sound analysis and honey bee specific sound data I’ve chosen a phenomena beekeeper talking about for ages: It is a common knowledge that “normal” colonies with a queen sounds different than queenless hives. I have checked this hundred times and did fail a dozen times while regular hive inspections. You have sometimes heavily buzzing hives, but all is ok and the queen is there and sometimes you have the opposite facts: All sounds normal but you kn…

[GuntisL]

Thanks for suggestions.