Beekeeping Log
Mite counts, hive inspections and your region's calendar, each worked from a cited extension, university or government source.
Filled: at or over its phase's thresholdOutlined: under itGrey: phase not recordedDashed, on the axis: HBHC's worked example, 12 mites in 300 bees (4.00)
This month in your calendar
Choose your calendar in the header to see what it lists for this month, quoted from its source.
Beekeeping Log is a set of free tools for hobby beekeepers. Each one is worked from a specific, cited source — never general advice — so what a tool shows you is what that source says, not a rule averaged across every apiary. Whatever you record in a tool — inspection notes, a mite count, a season's costs — is kept in your own browser.
- Varroa mite count calculatorTurn a wash, sugar roll or sticky board into a mite level
- Inspection checklist and logKeep each hive's inspections and mite counts in this browser
- Sugar syrup calculatorSugar and water by weight for 1:1, 2:1 or 1:2 syrup
- First-year cost calculatorAdd up a first hive from two extension budgets
- Calendar by monthOne month of your region's university calendar
Looking for your own state? See the regional calendars.
Every figure a tool shows is checked against the source it's cited to; how figures are checked lists the sources and how often each one is checked.
Six guides go deeper than any one calculator: comparing alcohol wash, sugar roll and sticky-board sampling, what an HBHC mite threshold means by colony phase, what two extension budgets say a first hive costs, what to look for in an inspection, when to feed which sugar syrup ratio, and finding your own state's apiary inspector.
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