Hive inspections
You can check the number of inspections performed each month for current/previous year or lifetime. General advice Don’t inspect the hive too often. Every time you do, you disrupt the hive.
About pollen
“Honey bees preferentially consume freshly-stored pollen. The freshly-formed composite of pollen, nectar, and oral secretions is briefly more attractive than older stored pollen. Older stored pollen sources are only likely to be fully consumed once freshly-stored pollen sources are largely exhausted.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5400263
Beekeeping and bees – press release
Thank you wall-street.ro for the opportunity to talk about beekeeping and bees. “The Romanian who helps beekeepers around the world: We are the first line of bee defense” Read the press article here: https://www.wall-street.ro/articol/IT-C-Tehnologie/244041/romanul-care-ofera-intregii-lumi-cea-mai-buna-aplicatie-de-apicultura.htm
Hands-free
Get things done, hands-free! Paulo Ribeiro wrote to us: “Love your app, but I usually take notes on paper when working on bees because it´s not practical for me to work on the smartphone with gloves on.” Using Apiary Book’s Voice Assistant you can talk to the app while you are performing inspections to your…
BEE grateful
“[…] here are 6 reasons to BEE grateful for our pollinators: 1. They improve our diets by providing micronutrient-rich foods 2. They give us honey 3. They have a great work ethic 4. They make our foods taste better 5. They increase food production and food security 6. They maintain biodiversity” http://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1127922/
Importance of bees
One of our objective is to help beekeepers to reduce bee colony losses, we strongly believe this can be achieved by applying best beekeeping practices, analyzing historical data and facilitating communication between all stakeholders involved. Read the following article, it is about decline of bee population numbers, pesticides impact on bee health, climate change. https://www.eitfood.eu/blog/post/searching-for-a-plan-bee-the-importance-of-bees-to-a-safe-food-supply
Calendar
A calendar is helpful in applying the right management practice at the right time. Plan ahead with your beekeeping, time your colony inspections and manipulations to prevent problems from developing.
Hive inspection – Weather
We are consistently search for ways to make our best even better. Claude sent us the following request: “Hi Bogdan, First, thanks for this very useful apps. Continue your good work. Maybe you already received similar requests, but here are the one that use in my manual reports; 1 – can weather data be included…
Voice Assistant
Apiary Book’s voice assistant allow you to record your beekeeping activities using just the voice. Please try in your language: – Take new note OR – Define new activity and use your voice to respond to the assistant questions (title and description for note, subject and description for todo item). Example (use your language): Assistant…
Voice Assistant
We’re happy to announce a major improvement to the Apiary Book app based on a lot of the feedback we’ve received from our community over the past year. Apiary Book’s new Voice Assistant app lets you use the app hands-free. It is designed to help beekeepers to record the activities performed in the apiary using…