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. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html