Manage and document your apiaries

Enter apiaries by address or capture them on the spot with your phone. The result is a migration log showing when your colonies stood where.

Creating apiaries

You enter a permanent apiary once by its address. For a spot without an address, at the edge of a forest or in the middle of a rapeseed field, you capture it on site with your phone. The number of apiaries is not limited, not even in the smaller packages.

The migration log

If you move your colonies to different sites, the changes of location become a log: which colony stood at which site and when.

You need this in several places. In Germany, the location of your colonies must be reported to the veterinary office, and anyone who moves colonies has further obligations depending on the federal state. There is more on this in the article about registering with the veterinary office and the animal disease fund. If there is a foulbrood outbreak somewhere, the first question is which colonies stood in the restricted zone. Without records, that is a memory exercise.

Origin of the honey

Since June 2026 the jar must state which countries the honey comes from, and for blends all countries involved in descending order. If you migrate and extract several forage sources separately, you need the link between harvest and apiary for this. The details are in the article on the new origin labelling.

Which site yields?

The quiet benefit comes after two or three years. Once harvests are recorded per colony and apiary, you see in black and white which site delivers and which is merely convenient to reach.

The same link helps with losses: if they pile up at one apiary, it is rarely chance. Damp, draughts, spraying in the surrounding area or simply too many colonies on too little forage.

For every apiary, iBeekeeper also shows you the bee weather.