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Monitoring the honeybee hives' food supply is crucial in beekeeping. Firstly, by harvesting honey we are removing their food supply, which we need to substitute with a different food source, usually a sugar solution and secondly the amount of space they have available for brood and honey/pollen storage influences their behaviour as a colony. For example, [[swarming behaviour ]] behavior is influenced and can thus be influenced by the beekeeper through regulation of the amount of available space in the hive.