Peter Borst asked:

>> all of you using the just released phone app [...]
>> is it working for you?

I scanned two hives and got "all clear" on both.  The first and
larger one was one week into FormicPro treatment for a mild case of
varroa (about 100 dropped so far), and had been showing evidence
of chalkbrood.  On that one I changed the report of "not normal"
from "no" to "yes", and of "varroa" from "none" to "mild"; there's
no specific report item for chalkbrood.

The second, small hive (a nuc really) also showed all clear; its
only problem is that the population is very small.  I'm actually a
bit surprised that the sound recording doesn't allow in a population
estimate; that would be a cool feature.

I don't know if it's "working"; if and when it diagnoses a problem
before I find it, I guess it will be "working".  But the project is
interesting and I was happy to back it.

Oh, and the "kitchen table test run" (of me singing "My Bonnie Lies
Over the Ocean") shows all clear as well.  ;-)

My only beef with the app so far is that once I've uploaded my reports
to the cloud, they're no longer accessible on the app.


Jerry Bromenshenk followed up:

> But Bee-L can be intrusive, constantly sending emails.

Another way to see that is that Bee-L conveniently drops material
right into my mailbox, as do the other lists, blogs, etc that I
follow, so I don't have to log into multiple web sites on a daily
basis to keep up with what's happening.  The latter approach simply
doesn't scale, so any discussion that requires that I go to a web
site will not be followed by me.

The ideal situation would be software that allows for both modes
of access, that is, web forums *and* mailing list subscriptions.



Anne, backyard beekeeper (*not* bee-haver!!!), Montreal.

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