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Everything in Bees Knees Apiary

The tools that make keeping bees easier - quick records in the field, the full picture back home, and your data on every device.

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Inspections, done properly

  • Strength, stores and brood on quick 1 to 10 rating scales
  • Queen sightings, eggs, larvae, sealed brood and queen cells
  • Varroa counts & methods, plus disease signs (AFB, EFB, nosema…)
  • Glove-friendly controls designed for use at the hive
  • Follows widely used UK practice and recognised best-practice guidance
Hive inspection screen in the beekeeping app: colony strength, stores and brood rated out of ten

Apiary map, plan & live weather

  • Every apiary on a map with colour-coded forage range rings
  • See every hive and how it is set up on one plan, at a glance
  • A “good to inspect” verdict from real weather at each site
  • Drop hives onto a ground plan or your own aerial photo
Apiary map in the beekeeping app with forage range rings around each site

Hive builder & queens

  • Build each hive visually - brood boxes, supers, queen excluder
  • Brood, honey and food meters update from every inspection - see what each box holds without opening it
  • Levels change through the season as your colony does
  • Full queen records: marking colour & year, clipping, temperament
Choosing a hive to inspect in the beekeeping app, grouped by apiary

Reminders & calendar

  • Colour-coded jobs: inspections, treatments, feeds
  • Recurring tasks that roll forward through the season
  • Overdue prompts so nothing slips
Beekeeping calendar with overdue and upcoming reminders

Reports & insights

  • Honey yield by month and by hive
  • Treatments, disease and colony trends across the season
  • Records ready to export for your own files
Beekeeping reports: honey by month, colony averages and the printable season report

Know when you can get in

  • A verdict for now, and the reason: light rain, too cold, thunder due
  • The week ahead graded hour by hour: "Good from 1pm", not a flat no
  • Thunder within four hours counts now, because the colony feels it coming
  • The same rules on the phone and the website
Beekeeping weather forecast in the app: the week ahead graded hour by hour, with the window each day offers for an inspection

The medicines record, on your phone

  • The statutory record, with the entries the regulations require
  • Batch numbers, doses, withdrawal periods and the day honey is clear again
  • Print it or save it as a PDF from the phone, for a bee inspector
  • The season report and inspection history print the same way
The veterinary medicine administration record on the beekeeping app, with the entries the regulations require, ready to print

A QR label for every hive

  • Print a sheet of labels from the phone or the website
  • Scan one with the app or the phone camera to open that hive, even with no signal
  • The code never changes: rename, renumber or move the hive and the label still works
Hive QR labels in the beekeeping app, ready to print, one per hive with its name and apiary

Sell honey at the gate

  • Record a sale at the gate or on a market stall in a few taps
  • Customers, your product list and stock, synced to the website
  • Paid sales count as income in your reports
Honey sales in the beekeeping app: paid and owed totals, customers and jars sold

Sell your honey properly

  • Sales, gifts and orders to deliver kept apart, so the jars you give away never pull your averages down
  • Told on the harvest, the sale and the jar label when honey was taken during a medicine or its withdrawal period, and must not be sold
  • Your regulars remembered, with their own prices, a Trade band and a dozen-jar price filled in on the sale, and a note when one is due to want more
  • What a jar costs you to fill, from the jar, the lid and the label, and what every sale made after it
  • A honey store: tubs by harvest, jarring up with the lot and best before, and any lot traced to everyone who has it
  • A page for each lot, opened by a QR code on the jar label, that says only what you choose to say
  • What each jar size sells for near you, once enough beekeepers nearby record their sales, and never anyone’s own price
  • A product catalogue with stock that counts down as you sell, and a nudge before a jar size runs out
  • Sales by month and what each jar actually fetched, with every record downloadable as a spreadsheet
The Bees Knees Apiary honey sales page: a warning that one harvest must not be sold, an order to deliver, a regular customer who may want more, and the totals sold, given away, paid and owed

Statutory records, sorted

  • A print-ready Veterinary Medicines Record - kept 5 years, as the law requires, laid out for a bee inspector
  • Prompts that foulbrood is notifiable and varroa presence is reportable - with links to the official routes
  • An Asian hornet sighting log per apiary, with the official reporting routes
The print-ready veterinary medicine administration record in Bees Knees Apiary
Plus kit lists, harvests & finances

Build a bee-bag packing list per visit, log harvests by weight or by the jar, and see income and costs per apiary.

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