Evaluating a colony means pulling frames and reading what the bees have written on them: how solid the brood pattern is, how many bees are actually covering the combs, how heavy the honey stores are, and how much varroa pressure is dragging performance down. This lab turns those four field observations into a single pulled frame you can inspect from any angle, plus a live productivity scorecard, so you can see exactly how each factor moves the bottom line.
Many experienced beekeepers keep simple year-over-year scorecards — brood pattern, population strength, stores and mite counts — because a single inspection tells you less than a trend. Comparing this season's numbers against last season's is what turns an inspection into real apiary management.
Pull a virtual frame from the hive and watch four field observations — brood pattern, population, varroa load and honey stores — turn into a live 3D productivity scorecard you can rotate and inspect.
Each slider redraws the comb cell-by-cell: brood quality controls how solid vs. spotty the pattern is, varroa load introduces bald/diseased cells, and honey stores fill the top bars. A weighted composite becomes the Productivity Index.
Move the sliders to model a real inspection, pick a season for its benchmark target, and read the growing/shrinking bar chart above the frame. Drag to rotate the frame, scroll to zoom, or generate a fresh random layout.
A single inspection is a snapshot; keeping the same four numbers — brood, population, stores, mites — every visit is what lets beekeepers spot a slow decline before it becomes a dead-out.