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The notebook stays in the ute.
Hands sticky, smoker going, bees on your veil. Nobody stops to write. By the time you get home, three hives have blurred into one.
The ApiaryIQ story
Every hive is telling you something.
Now you’ll hear all of it.
ApiaryIQ listens at the hive, remembers every visit, and answers your questions like a mentor who knows New Zealand beekeeping, and knows your bees.
Read onThe trouble with beekeeping
The best beekeepers remember everything. The rest of us have gloves on.
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Memory fades. Mites don’t.
Which hive had queen cells? When did the strips go in? When is the AFB inspection due? Miss one date and it costs you a colony.
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The internet is upside down.
Most beekeeping advice online is written for the other hemisphere: the wrong seasons, products that aren’t registered here, and nothing about our rules.
Speak your inspection
Don’t write it down.
Just say it.
Tap once and talk the way you would to a mate beside the hive. ApiaryIQ writes down every word, then fills in the inspection for you.
- Fills only the questions you left blank, never one you tapped
- No signal in the back paddock? The recording waits on your phone and fills in later
- Your own words stay in the notes, and you can play them back
In our tests, a 19-second recording filled in all ten answers in about five seconds.
“Strong colony, saw the queen, brood looks good, stores are low, sugar shake three mites, added a super.”
ColonyStrong
QueenSeen
BroodGood
StoresLow
Varroa3 mites · sugar shake
What I didSuper added
Filled in 6 answers and added to Notes. Check them, then save.
The ApiaryIQ Mentor
A mentor at every hive.
One who knows New Zealand.
Ask out loud, at the hive, and hear the answer read back while your hands are full. It knows our seasons and our rules, and it has read your records, so it answers about your hives, not hives in general.
NZ seasons, NZ rules.Spring is October here. The answer knows it.
Your hives in the answer.It spotted the strips still in Hive 2. A search engine can’t.
Straight to MPI when it matters.Anything that looks like AFB or an exotic pest: 0800 80 99 66.
Your ApiaryIQ MentorAI powered by trusted NZ knowledge
Is it too early to put a super on in the Waikato?
No, late October isn’t too early in the Waikato. Spring build-up is well under way and the flow is starting, so most strong hives are ready for a super about now. Go by the colony rather than the date: put one on when bees cover about eight of the ten frames in the top box and you’re seeing fresh white wax.
One thing from your records: Hive 2 still has its Apistan strips in, and they were due out on the thirteenth. Get those out before any honey super goes on that hive.
A real answer from the app, to a real practice account.
Where the answers come from
Not a web search.
A library, built for New Zealand.
Ask a search engine and you get whatever ranks highest, from anywhere in the world. The Mentor works differently: it answers from its own library of New Zealand beekeeping knowledge, gathered before any beekeeper asks a question, together with your own records.
- New Zealand knowledgeBeekeeping know-how for New Zealand conditions: our seasons, our pests and our rules.
- Gathered in advanceKept in the Mentor’s own library, so an answer never depends on what a search engine ranks first.
- Your own recordsYour hives, inspections and treatments, read fresh with every question.
- One clear answerPractical, about your hives, with a link to read more when it helps.
A web search
- Answers from anywhere in the world
- Northern Hemisphere seasons
- Knows nothing about your hives
- You do the sorting
The ApiaryIQ Mentor
- Answers from a New Zealand library
- Our seasons, our rules, our pests
- Reads your own records
- One answer, and where it came from
GPS locations and weather
Know exactly where.
Know what’s coming.
Out-apiaries down farm tracks, sites you only visit twice a season, a hive that moved in March. ApiaryIQ keeps every one of them on the map, and tells you what the weather is about to do there.
Pinned to within metres
Stand at the site and tap once. ApiaryIQ watches the GPS until the fix is good, then saves it, even with no signal. Copy the coordinates straight into the apiary register, open the site in Maps or satellite view, and keep notes on finding it: where to park, which gate.
Every hive knows its site, and every move it has made is kept with its records.
Weather for the hives you’ll visit
Check where you are, any of your apiaries, or any New Zealand region: today and the next six days, with rain chance, wind and gusts. Plan the inspection for the calm, warm day.
Pick dates to look ahead, or look back at the weather on a visit that went wrong.
The better-beekeeper loop
Record more. Notice more.
Lose fewer hives.
- SpeakEvery visit recorded, because it takes ten seconds.
- SeeSwarm signs, treatments due out, hives due and the week’s weather, waiting for you.
- AskUnsure? Ask the Mentor there and then, at the hive.
- ActDo the right thing at the right time, and see it pay off in your season report.
Made by a Beekeeper for Beekeepers
“I built the record book I wanted at my own hives: quick with gloves on, happy with no signal, and honest about New Zealand conditions.”
Dan Martin · New Zealand beekeeper for nearly 20 years, and 6 years teaching the NZ Certificate in Apiculture (Levels 3 and 4).
Your bees are already talking.
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