The language of the hive

Bees talk through the waggle. Now keepers can too.

A colony broadcasts constantly — what's blooming, what's failing, when a queen is going, when a swarm is brewing. Most of those signals are easy to miss. Waggl listens during your inspections, layers in regional keeper data and the science of bee biology, and helps you read what your hives are telling you before something goes wrong. It's also a place to share what you're seeing, find a mentor when you're stuck, and pull non-keepers into the story too. A way for the keeper to step inside the conversation, not just watch it from outside.

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What the bees are saying

Every colony talks. Most of it goes unheard.

Brood patterns, queen behavior, foraging traffic, comb building, mite loads, smell, sound, mood — bees broadcast their state constantly. The hard part isn’t getting the signal; it’s holding onto it long enough to act.

Waggl sits in the background while you work — hands-free voice capture during inspections, a quiet place for the signal to land, and a simple way to pass what you saw on to your hivemates. The conversation stays between you and the hive. We just make sure none of it gets lost.

Waggl app home screen — apiary overview with per-hive risk scores and the next inspection queued up.
How the keeper joins the hive

Listen. Predict. Connect.

A solo keeper with a notebook can only see what one pair of eyes sees in one afternoon. Waggl threads your own observations together with regional keeper data, scientific models, and the wider beekeeping community — so the colony in front of you is read in the context of every other colony around it.

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Listen.

Voice-first capture during inspections. Waggl writes every observation, action item, queen event, and mite count into a clean log per hive — so the next time something matters, the picture is already there.

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Predict.

Built-in scientific models applied to your own hives, combined with local and state-level keeper data, weather and blooming forecasts. You see what's coming before it arrives — plan the treatment, time the inspection, schedule the harvest — then track how it played out so the next call is sharper. A way to be a good hive member: telling the bees what's coming, not just reacting to it.

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Connect.

A place to share what you're seeing with your hivemates — the keepers around you, the mentor who'll guide you, the people who simply love bees and want to follow along. Bees communicate through the waggle. Now keepers can too.

Two ways in

Whichever side you're on.

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For beekeepers

The app for working hives.

Hey Waggl voice commands. AI-extracted inspection records. Varroa math from your mite counts. iOS beta is open to hobbyists and sideliners.

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For everyone else

Sponsor a hive. Get the honey.

Pick a real hive at a real apiary. Follow its season through the keeper's updates. Receive its honey at harvest.

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Voices from the field

What people say after a season with Waggl.

“I used to write notes on a sticky pad in the truck. Half of them blew out the window. The other half I couldn’t read by Wednesday. Now I just talk through the yard.”

Hobbyist beekeeper 6 hives · upstate New York

“Tap-tap-tap on a phone screen with gloves on never worked. By the time I had the right form filled out, the bees were already in a mood about it. Hands stay on the frames now.”

Small-scale beekeeper 22 hives · Hudson Valley

“I’ve been fascinated by bees since I was a kid but never had the space or time to keep them. Following weekly updates from my sponsored hive is the closest I’d ever come to actually being inside one.”

Hive sponsor Brooklyn, NY

“I teach a beginner class every spring. Half the dropout is people getting overwhelmed by record-keeping in the first two months. Waggl is the thing I wish I’d had at the start.”

Master beekeeper / club mentor Hudson Valley Bee Society

“Mites, foulbrood, chalkbrood — every blog tells you something different and the timing is everything. Waggl just shows me what my hives are at and what to do next. I stopped panicking about whether I was missing something.”

Hobbyist beekeeper 4 hives · Vermont

“Grocery honey all tastes about the same. The jar from my sponsored hive last summer had so much more character — and I knew which hive it came from, which keeper bottled it, what was blooming that month. I don’t think I can go back.”

Honey buyer & hive sponsor Boston, MA

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iOS beta · Android after iOS launch stabilizes

Put Waggl in your apiary.

Beta is free. Beta testers shape the next features and get grandfather pricing when the paid version ships. Bring your hives.

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