What's in bloom around the bee yard, week by week, from the first red maple in January to the last aster in November, with the hive work each stretch of the year calls for.
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Set them up once; they come back every year
Pick what you want to hear about and when. The app reminds you with a notification on this phone, every year on the day, even out at the bee yard with no signal. Nothing you pick here leaves your phone.
Pick what you want to hear about and when. The reminders go into the calendar already on your phone, which alerts you by notification, email or both, the way you choose. Nothing you pick here is collected or sent anywhere, and no one needs your number or address.
Another calendar app?
Tap a bar to open that plant's cardHover or tap a bar for the details
Early, Normal, Late slides everything that starts before July by ten days either way. A warm February brings the maples, plums and poplar on early and the whole spring follows; late summer and fall run on day length and move much less. Log the date you first see each plant open in the Plants tab and the calendar learns your own yard.
Hive work, set to local bloom
One page for a month: what's blooming with its pollen color, the hive jobs, the key dates and the spray watch. Hand it out at meetings, post it at the sign-in table, or put it on the screen.
One slide per month, laid out like the monthly handout: what's blooming with pollen colors, hive jobs, key dates and spray watch, with speaker notes. Opens in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides.
How these were set. The hive tasks follow the NC State Beekeepers Association calendar for central North Carolina, moved a week or two earlier. That's the gap NC State's own bloom dates show between the Piedmont and the coastal plain: red maple opens around January 20 here against February 1 in the Piedmont, and tulip poplar around April 17 against April 25. Treat every date as the middle of a range; your own yard, your own year and your own records beat any calendar.
Where it grows here, what it gives, and when
What the colors in the pollen baskets tell you
pellet color where it's on record · color not on record; watch for it and note what you see
pollen-landing-board-september-october.pptx.Read it as a clue, not a verdict. Watch the entrance for a few minutes around midmorning and match the loads going in against what's in bloom. Colors shift with light, moisture and how the bee packed the load, and no screen shows them exactly, so a rough match plus the bloom date is usually enough to tell what they're working. Colors are approximate, from the NC State Beekeepers Association's flowering-plants table and Wikipedia's list of pollen sources. Oak and corn colors are the European and general figures for those plants; ragweed's is one beekeeper's field report. Redbud, jessamine, huckleberry, tupelo, titi, crape myrtle, soybean, partridge pea, Spanish needles and thorny olive aren't recorded in any source we could find, so they show a pellet with a question mark. If your club members note what they see on the landing board, those gaps fill in fast.
The first-seen dates you've logged
Your first-seen dates and spray contacts are saved in this app on this phone. They're lost if the app is uninstalled or the phone is lost or replaced, so export a backup every few entries and keep it somewhere off the phone.Your first-seen dates and spray contacts live only in this browser on this device. Back up every few entries so a cleared browser or a new phone never costs you a season. What can erase them
One small file with every date, your spray contacts, your reminder choices and your settings. It's saved to your Downloads and the share sheet opens: send it to your own email or to Google Drive so it's safe if you lose the phone.Keep it in email or cloud storage, not just on this device.
Opens your email app with your whole log in the message.Opens a new email with your whole log in it. Send it to your own address. To get your dates back later, copy the email and paste it into Get my log back below.
From a backup file: tap Import a backup file above and pick the file. The picker can reach your Downloads and Google Drive.Your phone's file picker can also reach iCloud Drive, Google Drive and OneDrive.
From an email or copied text: open the email you sent yourself, copy the whole thing, paste it here and tap Restore.
Getting your log back never erases anything. Dates are added to what's already here; where both have the same plant and year, the backup's date wins, and the appthe page asks before it replaces anything.
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Read this before you uninstall or change phones
The app keeps your bloom log, spray contacts, reminder choices and settings in the app itself, on this phone. Nothing is stored online. Clearing your web browser doesn't touch them, and installing an update to the app keeps them.
The simple habit: after every few dates you log, export a backup file and send it to your email or Google Drive. The app reminds you when it's time. If anything is ever lost, install the app and use Import a backup file. (Android's own Google backup may also bring the app's records back on a new phone, but don't count on it.)
Read this before you clear your browser
This page saves a few things inside the browser or app you open it in, on that one device. Nothing is stored online, so if the browser erases its saved site data, those things are gone for good unless you've kept a copy.
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The simple habit: after every few dates you log, back up on the My Log tab: email your log to yourself or save a backup file. The page reminds you when it's time. If anything is ever lost, use Import a backup file or Get my log back. On Android, the Android app keeps your log in the app itself, so clearing the browser can't touch it.
Know who sprays near your bees, and who to call
Most pesticide losses happen because nobody knew the bees were there. The fix is people knowing each other before the season starts.
Typical for the area's crops; your neighbors' schedules are what count, so ask them.
The growers next to each yard, landscapers, mosquito control, your inspector: anyone you might need to call, or who should call you. Kept in this appon this device and included in your backups and emailed log. Tap a number to call it, or an email address to write.