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摘要

Hive Tracks is beekeeping software created by beekeepers for beekeepers with the goal of improving the quality and experience of beekeeping for everyone. It is a web application, which simply means you can access the Hive Tracks software through a webaddress, hivetracks. com, using any internet enabled device including smart phones and tablets. The vision for Hive Tracks was born in the minds of two beekeepers who live and keep their bees in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, an area rich in beekeeping tradition and well known for tasty honey varietals including world famous sourwood honey. These two beekeepers, Mark Henson (above right) and me, James Wilkes (above left), dreamed of utilizing cutting edge technology to build easy to use tools and services to help beekeepers, ourselves included, have healthy and productive honey bee colonies. Our hope is that by maintaining information like records of inspections and events in hives and beeyards, every beekeeper will be equipped with the information needed to make wise management decisions for their bees. Whetheryou have a couple of hives in yourbackyard or a couple of hundred in varietal honey production or severalthousand colonies for pollination,knowing the current state of yourbees is essential to being a successfulbeekeeper. This article gives a brief backstory of the development of HiveTracks.