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Oakfield School’s hive is just so well behaved.

Do not attempt this unless you are [...]

01
Aug

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Bees can be calm and careful how they walk on you

Today we had another look in the [...]

25
Apr

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The first look into the Oakfield Beehive in April 2020

Wow they have survived well! 6 frames [...]

04
Apr

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BeesMAX at Oakfield Primary School

Oakfield Primary School has a BeesMax bee hive installed on their grounds, supporting the crucial rehoming programme from BeesMax. The hive also provides a resource for school pupils, as well as teachers, to learn about the life of bees, the programmes in place to support the regeneration of the bee population in the UK, and how their existence plays a crucial role in our lives.

Visit the hive

BeesMax provides a service where friends of the school can book a time slot to view the hive on the grounds of Oakfield Primary School, learn more about why they have been installed and the positive environmental impact the hive achieves.

Use the contact form on this page to find out more.

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About our Hive Stream?

Info about this particular ‘hive stream’ and how the data from the Arnia system can provide detailed analysis about the health of the hive.

Link to data collected from APIStrips.

BeesMax and Arnia IT

Through the use of our Blue Box Rehoming Scheme, we aim to provide depleted wild colonies with a new habitat in which the bees can reorganise and restructure. As well as placing these in woodland areas, they also offer schools and businesses the opportunity to install hives on their sites.

Arnia, similarly, is a company concerned with bee health, but from a more technical standpoint. They have developed technology that goes into a hive and records data that is sent back to the beekeeper. Sensors are fitted inside the hive in order to monitor the colony’s behaviour and these statistics are then sent, via a gateway, to the user’s devices, allowing them to better understand their own bees. The data collected can be compared across different hives using the same technology.

After working together, both companies have decided to enter an official partnership, with BeesMAX using Arnia technology in their rehoming scheme. This opens up a whole world of educational opportunities and provides a more in-depth experience.

So why Arnia?

The Arnia system is unique in combining colony acoustics monitoring with brood temperature, hive humidity, hive weight and apiary weather to provide detailed insight into hive conditions and bee behaviour. No other system provides this richness of data.

Data collection using Arnia technology in BeesMAX rehoming scheme.

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A second beehive arrives at Oakfield School in Ryde Isle of Wight

Both colonies are heavily weighted down because [...]

06
Mar

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Pupils Check Hive at Oakfield Primary

Pupils coming to help Mark from BeesMax [...]

20
Feb

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Bees arrive at Oakfield School on the 28th November 2019

Gavin and Colin Haley cleared the way [...]

29
Nov

Supporting the bee population

We will be adding resources for people to learn about bees, how they affect our lives, and how we can all learn more and help reverse the decline of the bee population in the UK. Resources being added soon.