HiveGuard Apiary Desk

Know what to do at the hive box today. HiveGuard Apiary Desk is an offline-first apiary workbench built around a single question: given today's numbers and today's weather, is treatment a go or a no-go?

Enter one mite count — alcohol wash, sugar shake or sticky board — and the app does the sample math for you, converts it to mites per 100 bees, and scores it against a season- and climate-aware threshold. Ten built-in treatment protocols (oxalic dribble, oxalic vapor, formic acid, thymol gel, brood break, drone-frame culling and more) are gated against your temperature window, brood status and super status. The result is one explicit verdict card with a countdown, a super-removal checklist and a follow-up wash reminder.

VARROA TRIAGE
• Alcohol-wash, sugar-shake and sticky-board counters
• Sample-size and bees-per-sample math, done for you
• Mites-per-100-bees readout with a color-banded threshold gauge
• Season-sensitive interpretation, not one fixed number for the whole year

TREATMENT DECISIONS
• Ten protocols gated by temperature range, brood presence and super status
• A clear go / no-go verdict card that shows its reasoning
• Countdowns for super removal, re-entry and follow-up wash
• WorkManager reminders that survive reboot and device restart

GUIDED INSPECTIONS
• Step-by-step wizard: brood pattern, queen sighting, temperament, stores, pests and notes
• A CameraX frame photo attached to each step
• Automatic hive record stamped with date and configuration

SWARM & SPLIT ADVISOR
• Queen-cell triage decision tree
• Congestion scoring built from your own inspection data
• Split recipe generator: nuc size, resource allocation and queen timeline

HIVE STACK VISUALIZER
• Animated composer for brood boxes, supers, feeders and excluders
• Strength and weight estimates plus inspection-completeness rings per box

HARVEST & YIELD
• Super pulls and a moisture-readiness checklist
• Per-hive and apiary-wide yield charts with season-over-season comparison
• Cost-per-jar worksheet

OFFLINE REFERENCE LIBRARY
• 40+ pest, disease, disorder and management entries
• Queen-rearing and seasonal-task guides
• Diagrams drawn in-app and fully searchable, with no connection needed

SEASONAL CALENDAR
• Generated from the climate zone you choose
• Adjustable local frost-date offsets and per-hive exclusions
• A club mentor and a first-season hobbyist can run different schedules

EXPORT & BACKUP
• Multi-page PDF inspection and treatment reports
• CSV yield export through the Storage Access Framework
• Local JSON backup and restore
• A seeded six-hive demo apiary for onboarding

GLANCE WIDGET
• Today's hive tasks and the treatment countdown, right on your launcher

Built for backyard beekeepers, sideline honey producers, club mentors and first-season hobbyists. Everything is stored in a local database on your device, so it works in the yard, at the out-apiary, wherever there is no signal.

HiveGuard Apiary Desk is a decision-support tool. Always follow your local treatment regulations and the product label, and keep working with your inspector and your own judgement about your bees.