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Subject: Re:      [BEE-L] Hive Management Software
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 11:15:36 +0200

I read some of the postings and agree with Curtis here when he writes
that many programs now
available have a lot of variables included, seamingly for the hobby
beekeeper.
When I downloaded trial versions of those programs, I found however that
a number of variables
that I would have liked included still missed and no options were given
to add on a new variable
somewhere either.
Being a fairly new hobby beekeeper there is much that I'd like to follow
and record, so I just
use Excel for that purpose and whenever a new variable pops up it can
just be added. I go so far
that apart from registering the weather (clouds, wind, temperatures
etc.) even estimated counts
of incoming bees are done and recorded at the peak of each day (if I'm
there). This in an attempt
to judge the overall activity, sometimes producing surprising graphs and
teaching me a lot!
Pollen is also collected from each bee carrying a new color, analyzed,
photographed and recorded,
with this I can make my own local flowering calender later.
Everything else is written down, just as it is noticed.
So yes, the professional would never have the time to register all this
and his programs could stay
much leaner as Curtis pointed out.

Ron van Mierlo
Sweden
www.trollbi.se (50% translated to English)

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