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Can A Smart Beehive Network Of Open-Source Hives Help Stop The Bee Apocalypse?

Ben Schiller | Fast Company | November 18, 2013

The Open Source Beehives Project aims to lower the barriers to backyard beekeeping with simple, low-cost hive designs. With bees dying by the millions, they need to spread the buzz. Read More »

Network Of Sensor-Packed Beehives To Monitor Colony Collapse

Katie Collins | Wired | April 16, 2014

The mysterious colony collapse disorder has fast been reducing the global honeybee population over the past few years, and scientists are yet to figure out exactly why. Now the Open Source Beehive project is hoping to make citizen scientists of us all by encouraging us to build or purchase open-source beehives that can be used by people to track the health of their colonies in an effort to get to the root of the problem. Read More »

The Open Source Solution To The Bee Colony Collapse Problem

Tristan Smith | OpenSource.com | December 11, 2013

Last year, a third of honeybee colonies in the United States quite literally vanished. Commercial honey operations, previously abuzz with many thousands of bees, fell suddenly silent, leaving scientists and beekeepers alike scratching their heads. The reasons remain mostly a mystery for what is called Colony Collapse Disorder—a disturbing development of the drying up of beehives throughout the industrialised world. Read More »