Run Li

Dr. Run Li


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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10 September 2026 in Insects
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RLRun Li
Run Li
YLYuntao Lu
Yuntao Lu
CLCunchao Li
Cunchao Li
JZJie Zhang
Jie Zhang
WWwei wu
wei wu
SLShengping Liu
Shengping Liu
Both hive displacement and entrance relocation can challenge honeybee homing navigation, yet the temporal dynamics of colony-level homing behavior following hive entrance displacement remain poorly quantified. To address this, we established a non-invasive automated pipeline integrating YOLO11m-based detection, OC-SORT tracking, and the Homing Rate (HR) to monitor nine honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies under semi-natural apiary conditions. HR links trajectory endpoints with the experimentally defined valid entrance state and provides a colony-level measure of entrance-targeting accuracy. Horizontal entrance displacement caused a substantial reduction in HR in the treated colonies, whereas the Control Group showed only a small concurrent change. During the subsequent four-day observation period, all six treated colonies displayed a similar dynamic pattern characterized by an initial rapid increase in HR, followed by a slower increase. The asymptotic exponential model provided a better descriptive representation of these temporal dynamics than a linear model. The 14-day observation of Colony A1 further revealed an early increase, a transient decline, and subsequent recovery toward a relatively stable level, indicating that the post-displacement trajectory was not strictly monotonic. Overall, this study provides an automated quantitative pipeline for continuously characterizing colony-level entrance-targeting behavior and its temporal dynamics following hive entrance displacement.