WaggleOps Help
WaggleOps is a beekeeper’s logbook for mileage, hives and expenses. This is the same manual that’s inside the app.
Mileage trips
- Tap Start trip when you head out and End trip when you arrive, then pick a category. Tracking is manual, and no GPS runs outside a trip.
- Set location to Always (on Android, Allow all the time), or a trip stops logging when you lock the screen.
- Trip history, stats and permission diagnostics are under Money → Mileage. Export gives a CSV valued at the IRS rate set in Settings.
Yards and hives
A yard is a physical location, with a name and either an address or your current GPS. A hive is the physical box at a spot in that yard, with a type of Langstroth, Long Langstroth, Top Bar or Warre.
- A hive can sit empty, which is normal after a colony dies out and before a new one moves in.
- The Structure tab builds the “as built” stack of bottom board, boxes and covers, with a Front/Back toggle so entrance holes land on the right face.
Colonies and queens
A colony is the bee population currently living in a hive. It is separate from the hive, so the hive’s equipment and inspection history survive a dead-out or replacement.
- A hive can have only one active colony at a time. Change the current colony’s status (dead-out, absconded, merged, split, removed) before adding a new one.
- A colony’s acquisition cost logs a Livestock/Colony Purchase expense automatically.
- For queens, track type, source, breeder, dates, marking and clipped status. Status changes such as superseded, swarmed or requeened keep a reason.
Inspections
Log queen sighting, eggs, population, brood pattern, frames of bees, swarm cells, disease or pest signs, and a quick 1 to 5 strength rating, plus photos and audio notes.
- Suspected foulbrood is legally notifiable in most states, including Missouri. The app links to your state apiarist and does not give treatment advice.
- Home’s “hives not inspected recently” card uses the threshold you set in Settings.
Treatments and mite counts
This is a tracking tool, not a recommender. It records what you did, not what you should do. Product is free text.
- Link a mite count as a treatment’s baseline, then link a count afterwards to see the reduction.
- Setting a retreat window creates a reminder automatically.
Harvests
Honey, wax, propolis and pollen are each their own record, with quantity, unit and per-hive attribution. For honey, enter the final jarred weight, not the wet frame weight before extraction.
Expenses and money
Expenses are entered by hand: amount, vendor, date and category. Each category maps to a Schedule F line, while mileage always rolls up to Line 10. Recurring expenses create a reminder to log the next one, and you always confirm the amount.
Reminders, queen rearing, inventory and swarm contacts
- Reminders: one list for yard tasks and hive reminders. Retreat windows, recurring expenses and overdue follow-ups are created for you.
- Queen rearing: track a graft from cells started through to the queens that came out of it, so a batch’s success rate is a number rather than a memory.
- Inventory: what equipment you have and where it is, so you know what’s actually spare before you order more.
- Swarm contacts: your own list of who to call, and who calls you, for swarm collection.
Bloom
The Pollinator Bloom Calendar is built in, so you can see what’s flowering now and what’s coming. It is bundled into the app, so it works with no signal. Logging what you actually see in bloom makes its predictions fit your land.
Account and sync
Signing in with Apple or Google syncs your hives, colonies and records across your devices, and everything also works offline day to day. No name or email is requested. Sync runs when the app opens and when you come back to it, and there’s a Sync now button in Settings. Delete account, in Settings, removes your account and everything synced to it. Export first, because it cannot be undone.
Settings
- Set your IRS mileage rate and the inspection-staleness threshold.
- Add vehicles and business entities, so trips and expenses are tied to the right one.
- The Diagnostics panel checks permissions and background task status if trip detection seems broken.
Still stuck?
In the app, use Help → Report a problem or idea. It reaches me with your app version and device attached, so I can reproduce it. For anything private, or if you would like a reply, email rdshad@beesbloomsandbytes.com.