The colony — bees colored by the behavior we can HEAR
Foragers — entrance traffic & day hum
Fanners — cooling the hive (heard when hot)
Guards — defensive roar (robbing/threat)
Queen — piping / queenright signal
House bees — the resting cluster
Honest note: a microphone can't see individual bees or tell a worker from a drone. So we don't fake castes — we color bees by the behavior the data actually detects (foraging traffic, fanning when hot, the defensive roar, the queen's piping). The exact count of each is illustrative; the behavior driving it is real.
What's happening — and what to do
Hive vitals · 50 = normal for THIS hive · live
Tap a vital to see how it's measured and how sure we are.
Inside your colony — what's actually in there
👑 Queen1 — laying
🐝 Workers (all female)~30,000
nurses → builders → guards → foragersby age
♂ Drones (male)~300 (summer)
Typical healthy-colony biology — not read from your sensors. The mic tells us how the colony behaves; this tells you who's doing it.