The Bee MD
A diagnostic application for use in the field to identify honey bee health problems

The Bee MD
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The BeeMD was designed to help beekeepers quickly identify honey bee health issues they may encounter, such as pests, diseases, or aberrant bee behavior. The BeeMD is an interactive, visually rich, informative, and easy to use website, intended for beekeepers in North America. Signs or indications, descriptions, and additional resources are presented in fact sheets for each honey bee or hive condition. An interactive Lucid key enables you to match occurrences in your hive to possible conditions. ย A filterable image gallery is also included, offering an image-based option to find and learn about honey bee health problems.
The BeeMD provides identification support to help users diagnose signs of honey bee health issues. In this tool, a โconditionโ is harm to or impacts on the functioning of honey bees and/or to the hive caused by disease, toxins, pests, physical damage, and other causes. Also covered are abnormal bee behaviors, population problems, and beeswax comb issues that are detrimental to the health of the colony, as well as normal occurrences that may be misinterpreted as problems. In this tool, conditions may also be called "diagnoses."
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