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# Eyesonhives

Citizen Science Helping Bees

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- [Beekeeping Parts List for Beginners](https://keltronixinc.com/beekeeping-parts-list-beginners/) - So you decided that bees are awesome, and that learning to manage a colony of 40,000 stinging insects sounds like you! Congratulations, and welcome to the beekeeping club! The post below has a few sweet ideas and a beekeeping parts list to help you get started. Bees are a key supporter and indicator species for
- [Tax deductions for bees?](https://keltronixinc.com/tax-deductions-bees/) - Imagine if a bill was passed that offered farmers the option of installing bee colonies on their land in exchange for tax deductions - Jonathan O Do you remember the people who encouraged and supported your ideas? I was reminded of the goodness of answering questions constructively recently when reading a great answer on Quora
- [Measuring Honey Bee Health using Robots - Sonoma County Beekeepers Association](https://keltronixinc.com/honey-bee-health-using-robots/) - Talk Title: Measuring Honey Bee Health using Robots Hear how an old beekeeping technique for observing hive health inspired the development of an autonomous bee health monitor, and the discovery of bee activity patterns directly tied to the colony and queen's health. With over three years of bee activity data and video measured every 3
- [Eyesonhives at Central Valley Beekeepers Association Day for Beekeepers](https://keltronixinc.com/central-valley-beekeepers-association/) - Honored to be invited to present our Eyesonhives project to the Central Valley Beekeepers Association "Day for Beekeepers" meetup! Event Details The event will be hosted in Dadant's Fresno location. Event details: Time: Saturday Feb 18th, 2017. Eating starts 11:30am. Speakers start 1:30pm Location: Dadant & Sons Beekeeping Supply Co. Address: 3914 N. Winery Fresno CA
- [The Orientation Signal - the Pattern of Beehive Health](https://keltronixinc.com/the-orientation-signal-the-pattern-of-beehive-health/) - Our goal for EyesOnHives is to remotely measure and monitor the health of a bee hive, and alert a beekeeper when something is wrong, so that beekeepers can be in the right place at the right time and help save their bees. The Orientation Signal is the surprising breakthrough we discovered is the key to monitoring hive
- [Transitioning to Foundationless frames, as the bees intended](https://keltronixinc.com/foundationless-frames/) - Drones started showing up in a big way after I put in a foundationless frame (with wooden comb guide) in the middle of my brood nest on 12/25/14. Over the last month I completely transitioned to foundationless too - comb production is going crazy! I have lots of healthy drones, as of about 3 weeks
- [Of Mice, Men, and Bee Swarms](https://keltronixinc.com/plans-mice-men-bee-swarms/) - If you haven't seen or heard about a few bee swarms yet, then you probably don't live in the southern part of the United States. Swarm season is in full overdrive this month here! Are you prepared for bee swarms? Swarm traps are a heck of a lot better than the unprepared alternative I threw
- [EyesOnCats - cat highlights with data analytics](https://keltronixinc.com/eyesoncats-cat-highlights-data-analytics/) - SANTA BARBARA, California - April 1 2016 - Keltronix Inc today announced the launch of EyesOnCats, an activity monitoring platform for cat owners to remotely view exciting cat video highlights, and understand the daily activity patterns of their cats. Building on the EyesOnHives smart video monitors and analytics platform used by beekeepers, the EyesOnCats devices
- [What's on the Beehive's Landing Board?](https://keltronixinc.com/whats-beehives-landing-board/) - EyesOnHives quantifies flight activity levels - the signal creates a record of forager activity, orientation, swarming, robbing etc. You can look for things like what's happening on the landing board, and pollen income in the videos too since you can actually see the bees (a little easier to interpret than scale weight data!). The tech also makes it
- [Fermentation: Bee Pollen to Bee Bread](https://keltronixinc.com/fermentation-bee-pollen-bee-bread/) - Ever wonder if there's a bee Picasso inside your hive, creating works of art with her palette of bee pollen? A hive inspection often includes joy and surprise at the simple beauty of the inside of the bees' hive. These great colors show the diversity of pollen from local flowers organized meticulously in comb near the
- [Yellow Faced Bumblebee Bombus Vosnesenskii](https://keltronixinc.com/western-bumblebee-sighted/) - This beautiful bee is Bombus Vosnesenskii, the native Yellow Faced Bumblebee. You can imagine our surprise and joy to see this amazing creature dancing from flower to flower in the protected coastal meadows of Cambria California last weekend! The flower in these pictures is a coastal California native too - erigeron glaucus known as "Seaside Daisy". You can
- [EyesOnHives Preventing Colony Collapse with Data](https://keltronixinc.com/eyesonhives-preventing-colony-collapse-with-data/) - SANTA BARBARA, California — June 21, 2016 — Keltronix Inc today announced that EyesOnHives™ systems are regularly helping beekeepers understand the health of bee colonies, and leading to interventions which prevent colony collapse. A free livecast June 30th will outline how beekeepers using EyesOnHives are able to see a hive has become queenless before the
- [Citizen Science & Tech Helping Bees Livecast - EyesOnHives](https://keltronixinc.com/citizen-science-eyesonhives-livecast/) - Check out the 45minute livecast and Q&A session with EyesOnHives project lead Kelton Temby. Livecast date: June 30th. Title: Citizen Science & Tech Helping Bees Livecast - EyesOnHives Length: 46mins, transcript below. Starting with Citizen Science In this introduction livecast we share the story of EyesOnHives! We outline why we started, then launch in to how beekeepers
- [EyesOnHives at the Oregon Honey Festival 8/20](https://keltronixinc.com/oregon-honey-festival/) - National Honey Bee Day is August 20th Join EyesOnHives at the Oregon Honey Festival for National Honey Bee Day, this Saturday August 20th. Happy National Honey Bee Day! Plant flowers, thank a bee! Did you know that National Honey Bee Day became official in 2009? You can view the proclamation of National Honey Bee Day
- [Washboarding Bees](https://keltronixinc.com/washboarding-bees/) - Washboarding: a curiosity of beekeeping? Washboarding is an interesting behavior where bees walk back and forth in a 'washboarding dance', for reasons apparently unknown to beekeeping. Some speculate the bees do this when food sources are unavailable, or the bees don't know where to find them. What does observation tell us? EyesOnHives allows us to visually
- [When bees get involved, mentoring becomes a friendship](https://keltronixinc.com/bees-mentoring-becomes-friendship/) - “As we carefully pried open the hive together, we forgot all about mentoring, market strategy and startups. I could see David sharing in what I call the ‘Bee Zen’ experience. In that moment, he felt the same connection with the bees that I did. As we peered into the hive, I found the queen I
- [How to stop ants attacking bees and protect your bee hive](https://keltronixinc.com/how-to-stop-ants-attacking-bees-and-protect-your-bee-hive/) - Many beekeepers will tell you ants only clean up a dying hive, rather than cause its death. But they don't have EyesOnHives. Check out what we saw after moving an otherwise perfectly healthy hive: Do cinnamon sticks prevent ants from attacking a bee hive? Placing cinnamon sticks is an often recommended method of deterring ants, at least
- [Bee Hive Building - what to build, and not to build!](https://keltronixinc.com/bee-hive-building/) - Why would anyone get into bee hive building? Well, because it's really fun, hands on, satisfying and rewarding - a lot like beekeeping itself. My goal for building bee hives was actually to return all gear I borrowed from my friend by next spring, and have a full set of my own gear! The easiest
- [Dead Out Bee Hive Post Mortem](https://keltronixinc.com/dead-out-bee-hive-post-mortem/) - Recently, a friend in Lompoc let me know both of her hives which were doing well, now have no bees. The hives had become what most beekeepers refer to as a Dead Out. I was able to have a quick look after the Lompoc Flower Festival on Saturday. Dead Out She said that she had seen
- [The Queen is Key, but is she Alive?](https://keltronixinc.com/queen-key-alive/) - Thank you Kate for your kind words! I've got a lot more frames I need to clean, and will definitely use your 3-day freeze advice! The gloves I was using were actually bee gloves I think - my friend loaned me all her gear including the gloves. That's a super cool idea to upcycle kitchen
- [Saving Bees with Surveillance, Santa Barbara Independent, November 30 2015](https://keltronixinc.com/saving-bees-surveillance-santa-barbara-independent-november-30th-2015/) - EyesOnHives Uses Data and Analytics to Combat Declining Bee Populations Monday, November 30, 2015 by SAM GOLDMAN A new project called EyesOnHives has beekeepers buzzing. Developed by Santa Barbara–based Keltronix, Inc., the technology uses video to monitor hive activity in order to keep track of its health. A rapid decline in the insects’ population in recent
- [Technology Aims to Save Struggling Honeybee Populations in Santa Barbara, Noozhawk, November 11 2015](https://keltronixinc.com/technology-aims-save-struggling-honeybee-populations-santa-barbara-noozhawk-november-11-2015/) - By Gina Potthoff, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @ginapotthoff Santa Barbara-based Keltronix, Inc. have launched EyesOnHives, a cloud-based analytics platform that allows beehive owners, scientists and researchers to keep eyes on bees for early warning signs of trouble. A powerful camera and computer are placed at the beehive and connected to the internet, where beekeepers can
- [Your encouraging support makes a huge difference!](https://keltronixinc.com/encouraging-support-makes-difference/) - We wanted to let you know that you, our supporters, are awesome. Your encouraging support really has a big impact on our team. Whether you are online, or know us locally, your actions say you care about helping the bees, and that you believe in us. Thank you! Encouraging progress We're excited that in
- [Swarming Signal Detected in Real Time with EyesOnHives](https://keltronixinc.com/swarming-signal-detected-eyesonhives/) - It's not every day we get to discover something amazing about honeybees, humans have kept them for thousands of years. But over the last 3 weeks we have detected the 'swarming signal' on hives swarming all over town. Here's the timelapse video of the third hive detected to be swarming, where the bees actually clustered underneath
- [InDemand, Shipping, & Discovering the Swarming Signal](https://keltronixinc.com/indemand-eyesonhives-shipping/) - EyesOnHives InDemand Our goal is to enable more beekeepers to monitor their bees, and benefit everyone with the data. We're now making more beta systems available for pre-order online on our website. We're also continuing to reach people through crowd funding with Indiegogo InDemand. We hope to build interest for a true production run, of
- [Cranky Bees?  Don't get mad at them, find out why!](https://keltronixinc.com/cranky-bees-dont-get-mad-find-out-why/) - Most of the cranky hives right now have cranky bees because their brood nest is filling up with honey, and they're preparing to swarm. How to know the bees are preparing to swarm? Time of year, experience and observation through hive inspections. Also helps when you have EyesOnHives alerting you of nearby hives which are also
- [Raising Queens the Easy Way](https://keltronixinc.com/raising-queens-the-easy-way/) - It's swarm season to be sure, but it's certainly also splitting season! Bees being in swarming mode means we can also have an easier time raising queens! My Queen rearing is going very well - all hives are progressing nicely with healthy queens and a good brood pattern. I'm now raising an additional two queens.
- [Mass Pesticide Spraying for ACP in Santa Barbara: Dogs, Cats & Bees at Risk](https://keltronixinc.com/mass-pesticide-spraying-for-acp-santa-barbara/) - Broad spectrum cyfluthrin pesticide is being sprayed in backyards with citrus trees for ACP control in Santa Barbara County, followed by neonicotinoids in June.
- [Golden Queen of the Beach Bees](https://keltronixinc.com/golden-queen-beach-bee/) - Next day it was time to introduce the Beach Bees to their new home! There were a lot of bees packed together tightly, but their color was very similar to the other bees I am keeping. The real surprise was that unlike the Dark Queen, this colony from the beach turned out to have a
- [Honey Bee Hive Inspection](https://keltronixinc.com/inspecting-bees/) - The final excitement I have to report was my first attempts at building a ventilated bottom for one of my hives, some novelty 'runway entrances', and this morning's inspection which revealed 2 very healthy looking Queens. Here are the two colonies, the Dark Queen is on the left, the Golden Queen on the right. Here's
- [Zombeekeeper - Happy Halloween](https://keltronixinc.com/zombeekeeper-happy-halloween/) - I call it the Zombeekeeper. Lil light hearted fun! Happy Halloween! Zombeekeeper Honey As nasty as it looks, coffee made for some pretty convincing Zombee honey. We had some fun entertaining colleague's kids coming through the office. Too bad all the bees are dying in real life. Yep, that's one of the robots I
- [African Blue Basil - A Beekeeper's Dream](https://keltronixinc.com/african-blue-basil-beekeepers-dream/) - I have some crazy sized African Blue Basil growing in my back yard, which is covered in bees. My basil plants are now 3+ years old, over 6' high and at least that wide. No hint of slowing down over winter - they're covered in flowers and bees year round, lots of ladybugs in spring
- [Mystery Bee in Garden](https://keltronixinc.com/mystery-bee-garden/) - Wanted to share some pics I took this past Sunday in my garden. It's a furry, silvery mystery bee with black and white stripes I hadn't seen till after this recent rain. These bees were significantly smaller than my honeybees, moved faster, and also seemed more timid, and afraid of honeybees when they landed on the same
- [Urban Beekeeping & EyesOnHives; a Foreword](https://keltronixinc.com/urban-beekeeping-foreword/) - I never thought of beekeeping as something practical for city living. I was wrong. Urban beekeeping has sparked a lifelong passion. From Rural Bees to Urban Beekeeping I grew up around bees. My dad had a few hives on our small rural farm, and my uncle remains an active beekeeper. Even my grandfather kept bees. But I
- [Bees at the Beach Rescue](https://keltronixinc.com/bees-at-the-beach-rescue/) - Saturday I received an email from Todd saying he was out of town, and a swarm had been reported down on Cabrillo, and would I like to respond?! First chance to be a real Bee Rescue First Responder! Bees at the Beach Needless to say I quickly gathered up the gear I needed, and headed
- [Bee Rescue from a Compost Bin](https://keltronixinc.com/bee-rescue-from-compost-bin/) - Wow it's been a busy 2 weeks for this new Beek, I've been part of a bee rescue twice, a bait out, 2 colony mergers and even started building my own hives! I'll post each of the pieces of the epic story of all the fun if you're interested - Better to Rescue Local Bees Instead of
- [Combining Colonies and the new Dark Queen of the Bees](https://keltronixinc.com/combining-colonies-new-dark-queen-bees/) - The next day I was able to transfer the bees to a new deep above my doomed colony, combining the colonies - the Garage Bees would have a new Queen! Newspaper Technique for Combining Colonies I used the "newspaper separation" technique, so that the hives wouldn't mix right away. The newspaper mostly prevents that by
- [Bait Out on a Roof Top](https://keltronixinc.com/bait-out-roof-top/) - The next week I was privileged to meet again with Paul and assist him on a 'bait out' project, also pretty close to my place near the Mission. This one was right in the eaves of a really nice house that wasn't currently being lived in. The bees had happily made a home on the
- [Bees in a Queenless Hive](https://keltronixinc.com/bees-queenless-hive/) - Over the last few days I've been keenly watching the bees over breakfast every morning, and relaxing after work in the evenings strumming a little acoustic guitar from my chair near the hive. My neighbor is an elementary school teacher and is quite entertained by this - apparently she wants to write a children's book after telling her
- [A Cut Out Bee Rescue](https://keltronixinc.com/cut-out-bee-rescue/) - Following all of the Preparing and Repairing Bee Hives, it was time for a bee rescue! The night before, I prepared the backyard area, and started work on the garage panels (while bees were mostly sleeping) until un-neighborly hours. Planning and Execution of a Bee Rescue Sunday morning, myself and another friend (who recklessly/admirably agreed to help two nights before)
- [Preparing and Repairing Bee Hives](https://keltronixinc.com/preparing-repairing-bee-hives/) - Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! Mine was very productive - I spent time Friday with some of my beekeeping friends in Lompoc, and was able to borrow their bee suits and spare bee hives. Not all Bee Hives are New Saturday I very carefully cleaned the hives, frames, and comb. There were earwigs, moths, spiders, wiggly
- [Becoming a Beekeeper.  Getting Started](https://keltronixinc.com/becoming-beekeeper-getting-started/) - Read up and make plans I'm excited about becoming a beekeeper! I read about it all night - looking at different hive designs, wondering if I can make a Langstroth frame myself with reclaimed (non treated) wood, reading up on regulations (SB city is very bee friendly), people's experiences, Africanized bees etc. I like honey, and
- [Bee-friendly garden, swarm arrived, started a hive in my garage wall](https://keltronixinc.com/bee-friendly-garden-swarm/) - A colony of bees arrived in my bee friendly backyard within the last month, and has made its home in the side wall of our garage between the insulation and the wood. Becoming a Bee Keeper I rent on the 1600 block of Chapala. I'm interested in beekeeping, and I think my landlord may allow me
- [Pesticides vs Pests or Pathogens: Part 2 the Results](https://keltronixinc.com/pesticides-vs-pests-pathogens-part-2-results/) - Continued from My first possible pesticide incident, and sample collection. Part 1 After discovering a large number of dead bees just down the road from the office, I collected a sample, preserved them and sent them in for analysis. It ended up just costing just $2.50 to mail off the sample to the laboratory, really great
- [My first possible pesticide incident, and sample collection. Part 1](https://keltronixinc.com/my-first-possible-pesticide-incident-and-sample-collection/) - My colleague and I usually walk around the block here off Hollister and Robin Hill in Goleta mid afternoon to enjoy some fresh air and give our eyes a break from computer screens and robots. Yesterday, I'd been impressed by just how many bees were visiting the bottle brush flowers, and the seemingly healthy indication
- [Keltronix Inc Introduces EyesOnHives](https://keltronixinc.com/keltronix-inc-introduces-eyesonhives/) - Keltronix Inc today announced the launch of EyesOnHives™ a powerful analytics platform that helps beekeepers assess the activity and health of a beehive.

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