Monitoring the internal temperature of your beehive will yield fascinating results and insight into the state of your honeybee colony and help you care for your hive.
A healthy colony
Graphically viewing a graph of the internal temperature of your hive is very insightful. A constant 94F (34C) temperature indicates that the hive is healthy and brood is present. Honeybees will attempt to keep the temperature constant at that temperature regardless of the outside temperature.
A weaker colony
If the internal temperature fluctuates correlating with the outside temperature, it means that the bees are not able to hold a constant 94F (34C) internal temperature.
In this case, after the hive split, the internal temperature varies more than before the split and the variation correlates with the outside temperature.
A swarm
A temporary rise in temperature during an otherwise flat temperature curve can indication a swarm has occurred. Can you locate the point at which this hive swarmed?
If you have other interesting internal temperature and humidity graphs for us to display, please send them to us at support@solutionbee.com so that we can post them here for others to see!