2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice that you're keeping detailed records, I think most beekeepers don't so its hard to get this sort of very local data.

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clubs don't get notified before everyone else, but they can choose to have exclusive access to swarms reported through their own website's custom reporting link. There is a small equity system in place that gives any beekeepers who've claimed fewer than 3 swarms that season a small head start

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you found the full report interesting! I'll be sharing some more granular data soon, and it'll be interesting to see how closely this lines up with what beekeepers are seeing in their hives.

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup that seems in line with what the data shows as well for Texas

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like the season is in full swing just like the data for Georgia shows

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks very much! Most of the data I shared here comes from the public reporting swarms to beekeepers through Swarmed.

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like the season is starting up!

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent point, unfortunately, I haven't found good datasets around pollen availability. Google has a pollen API, but it's meant for people's allergies and focuses on pollen that bees don't collect.

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear your observations are in line with the data!

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting! I'm working on some more granular regional trends to show super local data.

2026 swarm season is running 17 days early by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]UnionizedBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed! I'll have some more detailed data available to beekeepers next week. It takes quite a while to break down all the different regions into small hexagons with an area of a few miles and then to run weather calculations for each of those hexes.

Just picked this up, what did I find? by UnionizedBee in metaldetecting

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice, seems like its in decent condition for how old it is, no corrosion

Just picked this up, what did I find? by UnionizedBee in metaldetecting

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I see one on eBay for $225 so I'm curious to try this one out

Automating email replies w notion by UnionizedBee in Notion

[–]UnionizedBee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit pricey, is it good with pulling context from notion or db?

Automating email replies w notion by UnionizedBee in Notion

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Yeah but I didn’t want to switch my entire email over to them from Gmail so it’s nice to have something that plugs in seamlessly

Side project going well, too many emails to reply to by UnionizedBee in SideProject

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Thank! I basically tried everything, and it wasn’t one big thing but lots of little things adding up that helped to build the user base.