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LIVE FROM MAINE
A window into the hive.
Watch the bees, follow hive conditions, and learn what is happening in a Maine apiary through the seasons.
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Tricks Bees Apiary
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APIARY DASHBOARD
Inside the hive
BroodMinder hive monitoring. Select a hive to open its detailed sensor data and historical graphs.
ELLSWORTH, MAINE
Apiary weather
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BEE FLIGHT CONDITIONS
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Weather data: U.S. National Weather Service. Location shown publicly as Ellsworth, Maine.
LATE SEPTEMBER IN MAINE
What's happening now
FORAGE WATCH
What's blooming near Ellsworth?
Recent flowering observations reported to iNaturalist within about 25 km of Ellsworth, Maine. These are community observations from the surrounding area, not a claim that each plant is blooming at the Tricks Bees apiary.
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Source: iNaturalist community observations. Flowering status uses the iNaturalist Flowers and Fruits annotation set to Flowers. Results depend on what people have recently observed and reported nearby.
VARROA WATCH
Know the mite load.
Varroa monitoring is one of the most important pieces of colony health management. The chart below is built for ongoing alcohol-wash results from the apiary. As samples are added, it will show how mite pressure changes by hive over time.
Alcohol wash
A measured sample of adult bees can be washed to estimate the percentage of bees carrying Varroa mites.
Track the trend
A single count is useful, but repeated sampling shows whether mite pressure is rising, falling, or responding to management.
Protect winter bees
Late-season mite pressure matters because healthy winter bees are central to colony survival through Maine's long winter.
APIARY MITE DATA
Varroa monitoring
Alcohol-wash results
REAL APIARY DATA COMING SOON
Alcohol-wash results will be added here as colonies are sampled.
RESEARCH AT THE APIARY
2026 FIELD STUDY
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VarroxSan Strip Placement Study
Patrick Hall and Doug Dunlap compared labeled placement between brood frames, horizontal placement on top of brood frames, and untreated controls across 24 colonies at two apiaries.
24 colonies2 apiaries42 days