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👑 Queen Detection

🎯 Purpose​

Automatically detect your queen bee in uploaded frame photos to quickly confirm queen presence and avoid the stress of searching through thousands of bees during inspections.

🎭 User Story​

  • As a beekeeper concerned about colony health
  • I want AI to help me spot my queen in frame photos
  • So that I can quickly verify queen presence without prolonged inspections that stress the colony

🚀 Key Benefits​

  • Fast Queen Verification: Upload a photo and let AI scan for your queen in seconds
  • Reduce Inspection Time: No need to meticulously search every frame during each inspection
  • Visual Confirmation: See detected queens highlighted with bounding boxes on your photos
  • Track Queen Location: Build a history of which frames your queen prefers over time
  • Early Warning: Get alerts if no queen is detected over multiple inspections

💡 Use Cases​

Quick Queen Check After requeening or during weekly inspections, quickly verify your queen is present without extensive frame-by-frame search.

New Beekeeper Confidence If you're still learning to spot queens, use AI detection as training wheels to confirm you're looking at the right bee.

Post-Split Verification After splitting a hive, confirm which colony has the queen by uploading photos from both new colonies.

Queen Loss Alert If AI doesn't detect a queen over 2-3 consecutive inspections, you'll get an early warning to check for queen cups or consider requeening.

🎓 How to Use​

  1. Upload frame photo - Take photos of frames where you suspect the queen might be
  2. Wait for AI analysis - Detection runs automatically (10-30 seconds)
  3. Review results - Queen detections appear as highlighted boxes on your photo
  4. Verify accuracy - Click detected queens to mark them as correct or false positives
  5. Track over time - View queen detection history across inspections

📸 Photo Tips for Best Detection​

  • Lighting: Bright, even lighting helps AI distinguish queen from workers
  • Focus: Keep camera steady for sharp, in-focus images
  • Coverage: Capture full frame to avoid missing queen at edges
  • Angle: Shoot perpendicular to frame surface

⚠️ Current Limitations​

  • Accuracy: Detection is currently in beta with moderate accuracy (~60-70%)
  • False Positives: May occasionally mark large worker bees or drones as queens
  • Model Improvement: We're actively training better models with more data

Last Updated: December 5, 2025