Help Locate, Map and Save Feral Bees - We need your help!
This site hopes to encourage beekeepers and concerned citizens to help find and enter the locations of feral honey bee hives throughout the United States.
While there is much publicity about Colony Collapse Disorder, Varroa Mites and other issues affecting managed beehives around the country, there is growing evidence that there is a persistent population of un-managed or feral honey bees still intact in the wild.
While there is much publicity about Colony Collapse Disorder, Varroa Mites and other issues affecting managed beehives around the country, there is growing evidence that there is a persistent population of un-managed or feral honey bees still intact in the wild.
Looking for wild bees? We hope to present some beelining techniques that will enable you to find wild bees and then enter their location information into our database. This collection of feral beehives is being mapped and studied to better understand their genetic makeup. Be sure to view the Map of all recorded honey bee hive locations across the United States and beyond!
SaveTheHives is an organization of beekeepers, citizen scientists and researchers that is trying to establish a national database of honey bee information. We want to encourage the use web-based technology to collect, map and share information about honey bees to further the research of Colony Collapse Disorder and other problems facing the health of the honey bee population.
If you are interested in helping this effort in any way, or have any ideas on how this site can be more effective, please contact Ronnie Bouchon with any questions or comments.
If you are interested in helping this effort in any way, or have any ideas on how this site can be more effective, please contact Ronnie Bouchon with any questions or comments.
Found a hive? If you already know the location of a hive of honey bees, you are ready to help! Whether it's in a tree, building or house or in the ground, if they are honey bees, we want to know their location. Go directly to Locate and record your hive information.