Hive Watch Pattern

Hive Watch Pattern is an inspection and monitoring app for hobbyist beekeepers managing one to twenty hives — designed to be used in the field, wearing gloves, with bees flying around. The problem it solves is not complicated. A beekeeper who inspects their hives every seven to ten days observes roughly twenty inspection's worth of information per hive per year. Without a structured record, none of it compounds. A colony that swarms, collapses from varroa, or slowly starves over winter usually showed warning signs across two or three preceding inspections. Without the records, those signs are invisible. Each inspection takes three to five minutes. A guided five-screen form covers the things that actually matter: queen status, brood pattern quality, population trend, honey and pollen stores, varroa mite count, temperament, and any disease or pest signs. Every field uses large tap targets…