OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Growing up in a bee-keeping family, Creighton University professor Dr. Carol Fassbinder-Orth has had a longtime passion for saving and studying bees.

“My parents have been beekeepers for almost 50 years,” says Fassbinder-Orth.

As a professor of courses focused on physiology, microbiology and pathology, her research has shown that machine learning can detect pesticide exposure in stingless bees through sound alone.

“So when you think of biometrics for humans, your voice, your fingerprint, your retina, and we can expand that idea a little bit more to other organisms like bees for instance. Bees, they don’t have a voice like we think of, they move around in different ways, buzzing noises, little click noises,” says Fassbinder-Orth.

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