- Apiary (yard)
- A location where you keep hives. In HiveMasterPro you add hives inside an apiary, so you create at least one yard first.
- Brood
- Developing bees - eggs, larvae, and capped pupae. A solid brood pattern is a sign of a healthy, laying queen.
- Brood box
- The lower box(es) of a hive where the queen lays and the colony raises brood.
- Capping
- The wax seal bees put over cured honey (or over pupae). Mostly-capped honey frames are ready to harvest.
- Dearth
- A period when little or no nectar is available, so colonies may need feeding. HiveMasterPro's forage cards flag dearth windows.
- DVIR
- Driver Vehicle Inspection Report - a pre/post-trip safety checklist drivers complete (and e-sign) in the Fleet app.
- ELAP
- The USDA Emergency Livestock Assistance Program, which can reimburse colony losses. HiveMasterPro exports ELAP-style hive-count and mortality reports.
- Frames of bees (hive strength)
- A measure of colony size - how many frames are covered with bees. Pollination contracts often require a minimum average.
- Graft / cell builder
- Grafting moves young larvae into queen cups so a strong "cell builder" colony raises them into new queens.
- IPM
- Integrated Pest Management - monitoring (e.g. Varroa counts) and treating based on thresholds rather than on a fixed calendar.
- NDVI
- A satellite "greenness" index used by HiveMasterPro's forage and regional intelligence to estimate available forage.
- Nectar flow
- A period when plants produce abundant nectar and colonies gain weight quickly. The opposite of a dearth.
- Nuc
- A nucleus colony - a small starter hive (a few frames) with a laying queen. Splits are often published to inventory as nuc units.
- PHI
- Pre-Harvest Interval - how long after a treatment you must wait (or remove supers) before harvesting honey. Shown in Treatment Guidance.
- Queenright / queenless
- Queenright means the colony has a healthy laying queen; queenless means it has lost its queen and needs one.
- RBAC / access level
- Role-based access control. Each staff member gets an access level (Manager, Editor, Field Worker, or Viewer) that controls what they can see and do.
- Requeen
- Replacing a colony's queen - for example by introducing a reared queen from a graft batch.
- Schedule F
- The IRS farm income/expense tax form. HiveMasterPro's Seasonal P&L maps your revenue and expenses to Schedule F categories.
- Split
- Dividing one colony into two (often to prevent swarming or grow your numbers). Splits can be published to inventory as nucs.
- Super
- A box added above the brood nest for the bees to store surplus honey - the honey you harvest.
- Swarm
- When a colony splits naturally and half the bees leave with the old queen. You can log swarm events (prevented or captured).
- Treatment rotation / resistance class
- Rotating between treatment products of different chemical classes so mites don't build resistance. Treatment Guidance warns when two products share a class.
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- A second login step using a time-based code from an authenticator app, for extra account security.
- Varroa
- Varroa destructor - a parasitic mite that is the top threat to honey bee colonies. HiveMasterPro tracks Varroa counts (mites per 100 bees) against your threshold.
- Wave (pickup wave)
- A Pre-Sales pickup window. Reservations are grouped into waves so you can schedule and broadcast to a batch of customers at once.