Today we announce the beta release of Hive Snapshots: a way to share your BuzzBox beehive sensor data, digital journals, photos, observations, and chat with fellow bee lovers throughout the world. Here's how to make your own hive snapshots.

Using the free OSBeehives beekeeping app, set up your own hive, you don't need a BuzzBox to do this, and make a hive journal entry. Hive journals are digital inspection records that track your colony stats, observations, harvests, and treatments.

Once you finish making your entry, view it in the app timeline and click the share button. You can select what kind of data you want to post, and then submit. For now, Hive Snapshots are only viewable on the website, but soon they'll appear in a feed in the app. This is what they look like:

At the bottom of the snapshot, you can discuss the data with beekeepers, ask questions, and share what you learn. We'll be steadily adding new features to this part of our platform, so stay tuned.