According to reports, an international research team is dealing with the decrease in honeybee populations in the world by supplying tiny high-tech backpacks for the insects. The team is behind the Global Initiative for Honeybee Health.

A video that was posted to YouTube on Monday showing that the backpacks that are basically micro-sensors, are working. They make use of radio-frequency identification technology, with help of which electronic readers record individual bees' behavior. After that, the recorded data is transferred to a computer so that researchers can review it.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, nearly 15,000 healthy honeybees in Brazil and Australia have been provided with these high-tech backpacks that weigh only 5.4 milligrams.

According to Dr. Paulo de Souza, a science leader with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which has come up with the initiative, "The tiny technology allows researchers to analyze the effects of stress factors including disease, pesticides, air pollution, water contamination, diet and extreme weather on the movements of bees and their ability to pollinate". de Souza added that they are also analyzing that what factors are responsible for bee deaths as a group.

According to the Natural Defense Resource Council, approximately one-third of honeybee colonies in the United States have disappeared. de Souza told the BBC that decline in the global honeybee population is so fast that it is leading to in a trend called colony collapse disorder.