Simulated inspection rounds feed a live KPI dashboard: watch colony strength, mite load and stores drift across a season, and see which colonies get flagged for action once metrics cross the threshold on two inspections in a row.
How it works ▾
Every simulated inspection round samples three metrics per colony — strength (frames of bees, 0–10), mite load (mites per 100 bees) and stores (% of target) — each drifting with its own site quality and random noise. They combine into one risk score:
risk = 0.40·(mites/12) + 0.35·(1 − strength/10) + 0.25·(1 − stores/100)
Following the article's rule of writing thresholds down before the season starts, a colony is only flagged once risk clears the slider's threshold on two consecutive inspections — a single bad reading is noise, a repeat is a trend:
flagged = (riskₜ > θ) AND (riskₜ₋₁ > θ)
Bar height and colour follow whichever metric the dashboard view selects; the ring underneath every hive tower always reflects the combined risk, so a colony can look fine on one metric while its ring warns you it's borderline overall. The trend panel plots the apiary-wide average risk against the threshold line across the season.
- Colonies tracked — more colonies means the grid represents more apiary sites at once, same as scaling a spreadsheet up.
- Threshold — lower catches problems earlier but flags more false alarms; higher misses slow declines.
- Inspection pace — how many simulated days pass between dashboard refreshes.