- Bee Forage & Nectar Flow Calendar. Enter your ZIP or postcode and see your beekeeping year for that region: where you are right now (build-up, main flow, dearth or wind-down), when the main flow starts, when the summer dearth hits and when the fall flow builds winter stores. Every forage plant behind it is listed with its bloom months, its origin (native, introduced or invasive) and its nectar and pollen value. The data comes from the Xerces Society regional guides, university extension services and beekeeping references, not AI, and every region lists its sources. Covers the US, Canada and the UK. Tap any plant to see its source, or report a missing or mistimed plant right on the page.
Changelog
+ added · × fixed · ~ improved
- New guide: How Much Honey Do Bees Need for Winter. Store targets by climate, frame math, hefting, the fall feeding window and emergency feeding when a hive comes up light. Pairs with the overwinter feed calculator.
- Selling honey guides for the UK, Ireland and Canada. Reserved names, metric weights, lot numbers, registration and origin rules for each country, checked against the country's own regulations and linked to the official sources.
- UK hive types: British National in Standard and 14x12, Commercial, WBC, Smith, National nucs in both sizes and Apidea mating nucs. Suggested by a beekeeper.
- First visit now starts in your local units: metric and Celsius outside the US, pounds and Fahrenheit inside it. Anything you save still wins.
- New currency setting in Tool Settings. Honey revenue estimates now show in $, £, €, C$, A$ or NZ$ instead of always dollars.
- Shared apiaries: changes a collaborator made on your hives, like a spouse logging inspections from their own account, were saved correctly but never showed up on your other devices. Fixed, and your devices backfill anything they missed automatically. Reported by a beekeeper.
- The Forage map button on an apiary now opens the map right there on the page instead of taking you to the tool. Your yard is pinned automatically from the apiary location, and closing it puts you back where you were.
- iPhone and iPad: the varroa treatment guides and tools, the honey label generator, the honey moisture calculator and the honey labeling guide with its 50 state reference are back in the app. They had been removed as a side effect of an Android policy fix that never applied to Apple.
- Forage Range Map. Drop a pin on your apiary or a site you are scouting and see the 1, 2 and 3 mile rings your bees actually work, color coded with the acreage inside each. Search a place, use your location or tap the map, and drag the pin to fine-tune. Every apiary page has a Forage map button that opens it on your yard. Suggested by a beekeeper.
- New guide: How Far Do Bees Fly. Why most foraging happens within 2 miles, how much land a hive really covers and how to use the range to pick an apiary site.
- Add photos straight from the hive page: frame shots, brood patterns, anything worth remembering. Inspections now take 20 photos instead of 10. Suggested by a beekeeper.
- New guide: Honey Labeling Requirements. The federal basics every jar needs, when a nutrition panel is required and a searchable 50 state reference, every state checked against its own official source.
- Selling honey pages for all 50 states. Your state's license rules, required label wording and sales limits, each with a link to the official source so you can confirm before you print.
- New guide: Bee Development Timeline. Queen 16, worker 21, drone 24, the full bee math chart and how to use it to time splits, egg checks and brood breaks.
- Phone fixes: the inspection Status Overview tiles no longer squash Food Stores and Not checked onto two cramped lines, and date pickers in dark mode show their format instead of looking like an empty box.
- Inspection notes in the hive timeline now expand in place. Long or multi-line notes stay clipped to keep the timeline scannable, with a Show more toggle to read the whole thing without opening the inspection. Suggested by a beekeeper.
- Two more varroa guides: Amitraz (Apivar) and Thymol (Apiguard), covering the synthetic and essential-oil treatments with temperatures in F and C, resistance and rotation and sources.
- Every varroa guide now shows temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
- New guide: Which Varroa Treatment Should I Use? A decision guide that picks oxalic, formic, thymol or amitraz by season, temperature, brood and whether your supers are on.
- New guide: Integrated Pest Management for Varroa. Monitoring, brood breaks, drone trapping and mite-resistant stock working together, with sources.
- New guide: Formic Acid for Varroa. The one treatment that reaches mites under the cappings and can run with supers on, and the temperature limits that matter, with sources.
- New guide: Oxalic Acid for Varroa. Dribble, vaporization and extended-release glycerin compared, why it only works broodless and safe dosing, with sources.
- New guide: How to Check for Varroa Mites. The alcohol wash step by step, the math and how it stacks up against a sugar roll or sticky board, with sources.
- The requeening tracker now lists a date for every stage: cell capped, emergence, mating window and expected eggs, with finished stages checked off. Suggested by a beekeeper.
- A word from a sideliner who switched to us, now on the ApiManager comparison page.
- Two more printables: a varroa mite treatment threshold card and a blank hive inspection sheet. Download from the mite calculator and the inspection checklist, print and take them to the yard.
- A printable queen marking color chart. Save it, print it and tape it inside a hive lid. Covers every year through 2035.
- The honey yield calculator now offers pint and quart masons, gallon jugs and 5 gal buckets, plus a custom container size. Every option is labeled as honey net weight since a jar named by fluid ounces holds about 1.4 times its number in honey. Suggested by a beekeeper.
- Status Check, a third inspection mode. Two questions: eggs on a center frame and queen cells on the bottom bars. Eggs and no cells means queenright, tap save and move on. A red answer flags the hive automatically with a note. Built for fast rounds through the yard.
- Walk the yard. A button on the apiary page steps through every active hive one at a time with the same two questions, a progress bar and a summary at the end showing how many you checked, flagged and skipped.
- Flag a hive. Like a brick set sideways on the lid: mark any hive as needing attention, add a short note and it shows in your needs-attention list until you clear it. Suggested by a beekeeper.
- Inspection cards on the hive page now say "View full inspection" so it's obvious where the complete record and notes live.
- Share a timeline. The split, swarm and queen calculators have a Copy share link button that opens the tool with your dates filled in. Made for forum answers and texting a friend.
- The Save & Export section on the timeline tools is lighter: the email reminder folds away until you need it, and calendar buttons fit on one line.
- The honey yield calculator now asks if your supers are deep, medium or shallow. A deep frame holds about twice the honey of a shallow, so the estimate follows.
- Tidier inspection form on phones: box count fields line up, and the custom task row has a labeled due date instead of a mystery box.
- Dark mode: the super and brood box counts were nearly invisible. Fixed.
- Embed our calculators on your website. Every calculator page now has an "Embed this calculator" section with copy-paste code. Free for club sites, blogs and shops. All we ask is that you keep the credit link.
- Fresh icons in the browser tab to match our logo, and a new photo on the donate page.
- Calendar view. Reminders now has a month calendar: dots mark busy days, tap a day to see what's on it or add a task. Imported calendars show up on it automatically.
- Import a beekeeping calendar. Drop an .ics file on the Import page and its events become tasks with due dates. Duplicates are skipped, so re-importing is safe.
- Varroa tracking: log grooming (chewed mites) and uncapped pupae on inspections. Every mite count now shows in a Varroa log on the hive page.
- Print record on every hive: details, inspections, varroa readings and notes in one printout. Handy when an inspector asks.
- Sort picker on the hive list: by yard, hive name, longest since inspection or next check soonest. Your choice sticks.
- Hives now sort the way beekeepers count: Hive 2 before Hive 10.
- Overdue tasks stay visible in Reminders instead of disappearing once their date passed.
- If a change can't be uploaded, Settings now shows which one and why, with retry and discard buttons.
- iPhone app: tapping a text box could zoom the screen and leave it stuck larger. Fixed.
- Shared hives: people you shared with could see your hives but not open the inspections. Fixed, and edit/delete buttons now only show where you actually have permission.
- Faster hive tracker. The dashboard and hive lists load straight from your device, and a slow connection can no longer hang the app on the loading screen.
- Contact & feedback in the iPhone app was showing an error page. Fixed.
- Photo captions: the thumbnail strip was sitting on top of the text box while you typed. It gets out of the way now.
- Offline sync is smarter about retries, and if a change can't be uploaded you'll see a clear notice instead of silence.
- More on the queen pages: afterswarms on the post-swarm timeline, cell types and development stages on the queen cell timeline and a queen rearing calendar on the grafting timeline.
- Expanded the queen marking guide to cover spotting and identifying the queen, not just the year colors.
- SEO improvements across the calculators and guides so the right pages turn up for the right searches.
- Varroa Mite Wash Calculator. Turn a mite wash count into your infestation rate and a treat-or-monitor answer for the colony phase. Thresholds follow the Honey Bee Health Coalition 9th edition guide.
- Oxalic Acid Dosage Calculator. Doses for dribble, vaporization and extended release, scaled to your colonies and based on the EPA product label.
- Honey Moisture Calculator. Convert a refractometer reading (moisture % or Brix) into water content and a fermentation-risk rating.
- Mead Calculator. Work out how much honey to use for a batch of mead at your target ABV and sweetness, with gravity and alcohol estimates.
- Newsletter signup in the footer. We only write when there's something worth your time.
- Cleaner input fields across the calculators.
- Tightened page titles and descriptions across the site so they fit Google and Bing results without getting cut off.
- Hive setup. Record frame style, brood and super boxes and a queen excluder. Inspections keep the counts in sync.
- Hive diagram on the hive page, a visual stack of your boxes. Tap it to edit.
- Color your hives, one color per hive or per box, from presets or a custom hex.
- Box depth. Set each box deep, medium or shallow.
- Tap the hive or queen photo to view it full size, and replace it there.
- More hive styles: Dadant, British National, Warré, top-bar, Layens, Flow, Long Langstroth and 7-frame nuc.
- Hive CSV export and import now carry colors and box depths.
- Offline mode. Read and update your hives, inspections, tasks and more without a connection — changes sync automatically when you're back online.
- Apiary Tools is now on the App Store! Download the free iPhone and iPad app and take your hives, inspections, reminders and calculators into the apiary. Same account and data as the web.
- Dark mode! Turn it on from the menu or Settings. If you notice anything off, please report it.
- Edit a task. Hover a task, hit the pencil and change the title, hive, due date or priority. No more delete and re-add.
- Requeen button on the hive page, under More actions. Start a tracker without logging an inspection first. Pick the method, start date and stage.
- Due date box on the Add task form was too wide next to Priority. Now they line up.
- Sign up after saving an anonymous reminder and it lands in your tasks automatically. No re-typing the email.
- Dashboard now shows a "next steps" card for new accounts and "this month / since last" engagement on the meta strip.
- Optional marketing opt-in checkbox on the anonymous reminder form.
- Mark done button in reminder emails. One tap from your phone, no sign-in needed.
- Task reminders from tools were never being emailed. Fixed; they're in your 9 AM email now.
- Save reminders without signing up. Enter an email, get the reminder on that date.
- Sunday weekly digest. Next 7 days at a glance. Skipped on quiet weeks. Off-switch in Settings.
- Reminder boxes on syrup, pollen patty, honey yield, varroa, overwinter feed and inspection checklist. Pick the cadence yourself.
- Dashboard "Due this week" tile now counts saved task reminders too, not just inspection follow-ups.
- Inventory CSV adds a "Part of" column so kits and their parts round-trip cleanly.
- Save reminder on the walk-away split, post-swarm, queen cell and grafting timelines. Drops into your tasks; you get the morning email.
- Scheduled Reminders page now shows tasks too, not just inspection follow-ups. Sorted by date.
- Inventory sub-items. Make a kit the parent, group the deeps and mediums under it. Sub-items can carry their own cost or roll up to the kit.
- Inventory form was crashing when you typed in the unit cost field. Fixed.
- Syrup Calculator: Gallons is now a selectable volume unit, handy for custom container sizes.
- Inventory. Track boxes, frames, suits, syrup, treatments, tools, queens on order. Anything you've bought or are about to. Vendor, cost, purchase date, status (in use / stored / loaned / disposed / lost / sold), optional apiary. Made for insurance after a loss and the year-end handoff to your accountant.
- Bulk CSV import. Drop a spreadsheet at /app/import: apiaries, hives, inspections or inventory, auto-detected from the header row. Dry-run preview flags duplicates and errors before anything is written. Round-trips cleanly with the CSVs you exported earlier.
- Pollen Patty Calculator. Scales Kamon Reynolds's Ultra Bee recipe to any batch ("I want 40 lb of patty" or "I have 11 lb of Ultra Bee"). Sugar + water + oil base or the Pro Sweet variant.
- "Data" dropdown on the All Hives and Apiaries pages: one-click CSV export and a jump to Import, right where you actually look at the data.
- Avatar menu loses Export and gains Inventory. Settings lists Import alongside Export.
- Dashboard shows an Inventory snapshot once you've logged your first item.
- Export Data page covers the whole account now, not just inspections. "Download everything" button bundles every record into one JSON archive; per-entity CSVs for apiaries, hives, tasks, swarm logs and the journal join the existing inspections CSV. Counts shown up front so you know what you're backing up.
- Summarize with AI on the inspect form. Type your notes, tap the button, get a short summary plus Brood / Stores / Pests / Actions bullets, plus checkbox suggestions for any fields you left blank. The AI never overwrites anything you already set.
- First-use disclosure modal explains where your notes go (Google's paid Gemini API, never used for training) before anything is sent. Daily per-user cap keeps costs predictable.
- Click to edit a hive name. Tap, type, save. No more bouncing into the Edit screen for a typo.
- Bee logo was rendering oversized in some feedback emails (Outlook especially). Locked to 64 px so it looks right across every client.
- New /hive-tracker landing page: a proper public overview of the hive tracker so visitors can see what it does before signing up. The "My Hives" link in the top nav points there; if you're already logged in you still go straight to your dashboard.
- Archive a hive. Dead-outs, sold colonies, combined hives and queenless ones drop out of your active lists, but the inspections, photos and notes stay. Toggle "N archived" to peek back; Unarchive brings one back to life.
- Quick action buttons on every hive page: New inspection, Add task and Add note. Add task and Add note both open small inline forms so you can jot something down without scrolling.
- Drawing comb syrup preset: Bob Binnie's 1 : 1¼ ratio for encouraging bees to draw new comb during a flow.
- The syrup calculator's custom ratio fields now accept "1 1/4" or "5/4", not just decimals.
- Mixing syrup by weight? Water amount shows in lb or kg now, with mL as a secondary readout. No more converting in your head.
- Hive page reordered. Pending tasks above the inspection timeline (where you actually use them), requeening tracker right under the header, photo gallery to the bottom.
- Secondary hive actions (QR code, Sharing, Split, Edit, Archive) now tuck behind a "More actions" toggle. Labels got shorter too. You're on a hive page, you don't need "Edit hive."
- Hive metadata row cleaned up on mobile. Queen reference photo is smaller and lives next to the queen info instead of orphaning beside the source.
- Mobile bottom nav rebalanced. Tools is back in the tab bar where it was, Swarms moved into the hamburger menu and the icons line up on the same baseline again.
- Apiaries page is now list-row style on mobile, matching the All Hives page.
- Hive action buttons no longer wrap to two lines on narrow phones.
- Archive popover was opening off-screen on mobile when the button sat in the left column.
- Magnifying glass was kissing the placeholder text in the Hives search bar.
- Add Hive button stopped stretching edge-to-edge on mobile.
- Swarm logs. Capture date, weather, location, method (shake / lure box / cutout / call-out / trap-out), size, source, queen spotted. Add follow-ups as comb gets drawn, link to the apiary you put it in and the hive it eventually becomes.
- Swarms tab in the main nav. New-entry form prefills weather and your last-used apiary.
- Linked swarm logs on the hive page. If a swarm became a hive, the hive's page shows where the colony came from.
- Public profiles. Claim a handle, write a bio, set location, region, year started, website. Lives at /u/[handle]. Visibility is Private, Unlisted or Public. Public pages show aggregate counts only. No individual hive names, locations or contents are ever exposed.
- Avatar uploads. Square photo plus optional 3:1 cover. EXIF (including GPS) stripped before anything hits the server. HEIC from iPhones converts automatically.
- Quick visibility and share menu in the avatar dropdown. Flip Private / Unlisted / Public or copy your public link without leaving the page.
- Hive journal. Dated notes between inspections. Contributors add their own; co-owners can edit anyone's.
- Info badge on the hive actions row that explains what the QR code, Split, Edit and Sharing buttons do.
- Tools dropdown in the desktop nav: every calculator and timeline, one click from anywhere.
- Add Hive button on the All Hives page. Single-apiary users jump straight to the form; multi-apiary users get a small picker.
- Dashboard rebuilt. New hero strip, stat tiles that link through to apiaries / all hives / reminders / hives needing attention, member-since count and a Recent Activity card for shared-hive collaborator updates.
- Nav slimmed to four tabs (Hives, Apiaries, Swarms, Tasks) plus the Tools dropdown and avatar menu. Custom icons replaced the generic ones.
- Settings split into General (timezone, notifications, password, login history, emails, deletion) and Public Profile (handle, bio, avatar, cover, visibility). Old /app/profile bookmarks redirect.
- Password change, login history and email preferences are proper first-class options in General now (used to be buried).
- "People with Access" panel is collapsible, with a summary row when closed.
- Your Google photo or uploaded avatar shows up in the nav top bar and dropdown.
- Tools list is one source of truth. Public /tools page and in-app dropdown can't drift out of sync anymore.
- Dashboard activity feed only shows activity on hives you actually have access to.
- Cover photo uploads. Storage was silently rejecting cover.jpg behind the scenes.
- Queen reference photos. Snap or pick a photo, crop to a square, keep it on the hive page. Paint fades, actual color doesn't.
- Pick queen photos from your camera roll, not just the camera.
- All Hives: crown / stores / pest icons turn green, amber or red based on the latest inspection instead of always looking alarming.
- Hive detail: queen-year crown matches the latest queen inspection status (green when all is well).
- Dashboard "Need attention" count: only hives whose latest inspection flagged an issue, not historical ones. Label corrected to "hives".
- Mobile queen-photo cropper: Save button is reachable on Android Chrome (was hidden behind the URL bar). Bigger drag handles.
- Occasional horizontal scroll on hive / apiary detail pages with long names or locations.
- Requeening tracker: start from an inspection or hive, pick method and stage, see a projected timeline, mark succeeded or failed
- Queen cell stage on inspections: log developmental stage; optional prompt to start the requeening tracker
- Split a hive: create multiple child hives (and related records) from one parent in a single flow
- Hive lineage: parent hive, splits from this hive and ancestry context on hive detail
- Parent hive picker when adding a hive whose source is a split
- All hives page (/app/hives) with filters for needs attention and active requeening
- Dashboard stat cards link through to apiaries, all hives, reminders and hives needing attention
- Self-hosted Supabase schema: combined hive list view is recreated on apply so new hive columns do not break upgrades
- Hive photo gallery: upload multiple photos per hive
- Inspection photos: attach photos to inspection records
- iPhone HEIC support: upload directly from camera roll
- Photo timeline: see all hive photos organized by date
- Auto-thumbnails for faster loading
- Set primary "profile" photo for each hive
- Drag-and-drop photo uploads
- Varroa mite treatment comparison tool: compare EPA-registered treatments by type, season, temperature and supers compatibility
- Temperature filtering for varroa treatments: find treatments that work in your current conditions
- Add tasks directly from apiary page with hive selection
- Apiary and hive selection when creating tasks
- Tasks section on apiary pages with quick-add form
- Password reset on login page
- Hive auto-selected when apiary has only one hive
- Task system: track what you need to do across all hives
- Task suggestions based on inspection findings
- Calendar view and ICS export for tasks
- Recurring task templates (weekly, monthly, seasonal)
- Date picker for inspections: log past inspections easily
- Timezone-aware notifications: reminders sent at 9 AM your local time
- Timezone selector in settings with auto-detect
- QR codes for hives: scan to view hive data or start inspection
- Print all QR codes for an apiary at once
- Phone/push notifications for inspection reminders
- Push notification toggle in settings (alongside email)
- Reminders page to view, edit and delete scheduled inspections
- Add reminder manually for any hive
- Inspection reminders now check user preferences before sending
- 5lb jar option in Honey Yield Calculator
- Font Awesome icons replace emojis across tool pages
- Gradient timeline for "When to Expect Eggs" section (amber → gold → green)
- Consistent icon styling with honey-gold backgrounds across all tools
- UI polish on Syrup, Queen Color, Overwinter Feed and Honey Yield pages
- Printable paper inspection forms for field use
- Clean print stylesheet for inspection reports
- Post-swarm timeline page with full SEO content
- Improved "When to Expect Eggs" timeline UI across queen tools
- Fixed TimelineStrip color blending issues
- Better export buttons on inspection page
- SEO content added to tool pages (syrup, overwinter, walkaway-split, queen-color)
- FAQ sections with common beekeeper questions
- Related tools links for better navigation
- Intro paragraphs explaining each tool's purpose
- Tool page layout now has sticky inputs on desktop
- Improved formatting for tips and common mistakes sections
- Better Quick Reference layout on timeline tools
- Fixed syrup calculator not updating when volume unit changes
- Fixed SEO titles and descriptions to meet Google's character limits
- Custom inspection actions: hide defaults, add your own
- Action preferences sync across devices when logged in
- New actions: Varroa test, Added/Removed brood box, Removed queen
- Smart next-inspection suggestions (shown as hints)
- Changelog page
- Fixed syrup calculator NaN with certain units
- Fixed mobile header showing "Support Us" instead of "Support"
- PDF/Print buttons wrap properly on mobile
- Queen marking tool now mobile-friendly
- Better Copy Summary and Add to Calendar button styling
- Reorganized inspection actions into logical groups
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