Busy, Not Bountiful

Validating the Campus Apiary's Pollinator Index Against What's Actually Visiting the Garden Beds

A poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tests whether the campus apiary's smart-hive Pollinator Index predicts wild-pollinator richness in nearby garden beds, pairing a season of hive-weight logs against matched near- and far-bed transects. The Index rose 38% across the season while near-hive richness held at roughly half the far-bed level throughout, with no reliable relationship to the Index's weekly value.

@misc{slop_so11nu,
  author       = {Thandiwe Solberg and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Busy, Not Bountiful: Validating the Campus Apiary's Pollinator Index Against What's Actually Visiting the Garden Beds},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.so11nu},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-validating-the-campus-so11nu/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}