Bees: Apiary Management

KRC Software

About this app

Bees is a modern application that takes apiary management to a new level. It allows you to easily maintain a digital diary of your apiary, eliminating traditional paper notes.

The app lets you track key information about every bee colony in the apiary: from queen status and inspection dates to health condition and the amount of honey harvested.

Bees is an intuitive tool that helps you make better decisions, optimize apiary work, and maintain a complete history of your apiary. It is an ideal solution for both hobbyists and professional beekeepers.

Available on phone and tablet, always at hand. Easily manage your apiary, whether you're using a smartphone in the field or a comfortable tablet in the office. All features have been optimized for small and large screens to ensure comfortable work in any conditions.

1. Apiary and Hive Management
• Apiary Records: Adding, editing, and deleting apiary locations along with a performance/quality rating system.
• Detailed Hive Profiles:
◦ Personalization: name, photos, description, QR code, and searchable tags.
◦ Technical parameters: hive type, bee temperament (scale from very gentle to aggressive).
◦ History tracking for each hive (inspections, feeding, treatment).
• Colony Merging: Advanced feature for merging two bee colonies with the choice of which queen remains in the new hive and an option to overwrite data history.
• Location: Integration with Google Maps for marking apiary positions.

2. Breeding and Queen Management
• Queen Records: Creating queen profiles, tracking their origin, breed, and assignment to specific hives.
• Rearing Series: Managing the process of rearing new queens.
• Intelligent Notifications: Automatic reminder system for key stages of the breeding cycle:
◦ Day 4: Grafting young larvae.
◦ Day 14: Caging queen cells before emergence.
◦ Day 25: Checking for start of egg-laying by young queens.

3. Harvests and Production
• Harvest Logging: Recording the amount of honey or wax obtained.
• Data Linking: Ability to assign a harvest to a specific hive and apiary, allowing identification of the most productive colonies.
• Classification: Specifying the type of forage and harvest quality.

4. Analytics and Statistics
• Data Visualization: Interactive charts (bar and line).
• Performance Analysis: Comparing honey amounts against hive/apiary ratings.
• Grouping and Filtering: View data by time (day, month, year) and object (by apiary or hive).
• Advanced Filters: Allowing precise trimming of analytical data.

5. Notebook and Diary
• Work Diary: Automatic and manual entries documenting all activities in the apiary.
• Notes: General notes not directly linked to a specific hive.
• Search Engine: A system for searching entries and hives, facilitating quick access to historical information.

6. Security and Data Synchronization
• Cloud Backup: Integration with Google Drive API (App Data folder) – data does not take up space on the user's Google Drive and is invisible from the file browser.
• Google Sign-In: Secure authentication using the latest Credential Manager API.
• Data Recovery: Easily move the apiary to another device by restoring a backup.
• Backup Monitoring: Displaying the date and size of the last backup.

7. Interface and UX
• Adaptive Layout: The app supports various screen sizes (phones, tablets, foldables).
• Dark Mode: Full support for dark theme.

8. Resource Management
• Type Databases: Predefined and expandable lists of diseases, medications, hive types, and forage types, speeding up data entry.

What’s new

New: 🐝
• Smart group sorting: Hive type groups and queen bee breed groups are now displayed in a more logical order – first the Popular group, followed by the group for Your location, custom groups alphabetically, and finally the Other group.
• Bug fixes. Minor improvements.