Record Keeping

Keeping track of your hives is an important aspect of successful beekeeping so after utilizing a pad of paper for the past year and a half, I finally elected to go high-tech with Beetight.com online record keeping.  I found it to be less clunky and more intuitive than the popular Hive Tracks.

The basic version is free for up to 6 hives. The Pro version is $15 per year and comes with an iPhone/iPad or Android app. The big plus for me is that you can export your data into excel so that you can keep a local backup.

So far, I'm impressed with its ease of use, allowing you to

• Easily record details of inspections and manipulations
• Record treatments and feeding
• Track colony temperament
• Record honey harvests, including records of nectar sources and batch codes.