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Sustainable Beekeeping System With Everything You Need to BEE a Better Beekeeper & Save Bees
Why You Should Purchase the Beepods Online Course At Beepods, we’ve talked for a long time about developing an online course for our beekeepers. The Beepods team has been spending a lot of time putting together a course that walks you through everything from a beekeeper’s mindset to the anatomy of a honey bee to how to go about inspecting your hive. At the end of this lesson, you will be able to know when, where, and how to use the standard beekeeping tools: Feather Guider, Beepods Hive Tool, and Standard Hive Tool. You will also learn why regular inspections are important, perform data-backed beekeeping, and how to leverage the Beepods Healthy Hive Management Software to see patterns in the colony over time.
This week, I was scrolling through Netflix and came across a documentary called Hive Alive. Seeing as I spend a lot of time researching and writing about bees, I was intrigued to see what this film had to offer
The higher costs come from the raising of the colony, since each colony has to be carefully cultivated before being transported to its new home, as opposed to packaged bees, which are taken from a hive and put into a box with a new queen from a different hive. Unlike a nuc, where the colony is raised and transported as a whole, queen, workers, and comb, packages are made up of worker bees and a queen that almost always comes from a different hive. They will need to build comb for honey stores and for brood, which they will need to replace the worker bees – and soon (remember, worker bees only live about 4-6 weeks). Since the colony was not shipped with comb, and therefore have not yet built up any food stores or done anything to establish the hive as “home,” there is a chance that the bees may decide to abscond.
The question and selection screens are also coming along nicely – so much so that we are hoping to be able to begin user testing within a couple of weeks! By “manage,” we mean updating the address of your hive if you decide to move, add or remove hives from yards, and giving other users access to view, edit, or add data to a hive or yard that you are the owner of. Below are a couple of examples of what the final hive and yard settings screens may look like: From this screen, users will be able to add or remove hives. The app developers decided to keep the number of options on the screen to a minimum so that users can easily navigate the screens one-handed, since we know that beekeepers rarely have both hands free during inspections.