BeeCam [not text-only friendly]
 
 

Welcome to The Amazing Beecam! Beecam is an electronic CCD (Charged Coupling Device) camera we have trained on an observation hive in our laboratory. This camera periodically takes 26 snapshots of the bottom frame of bees at close range. Those frames are sent to you one after another as an almost-live animation.

Hive Conditions

Here are a few conditions related to the hive that you may or may not be able to see:

Please note

"Dirt road" connections may be slow. The introduction of Beecam contains animated GIF files that are about 130KB each. The final Beecam animation (almost live) contains 26 frames which are about 10KB each. We've put a lot of hard work into this, so we think it's worth the wait! You decide...

About The Amazing Beecam

We bring it to you almost live. The Beecam is a CCD camera fixed at close range pointing towards a double-frame observation hive. The hive is made of wooden frames and glass panels. Twenety-six one-half-size frames are grabbed within milliseconds of each other every twenty minutes. After they are captured, the server waits for a request to be made for the page you are about to see. The frames are then sent to you a fast as possible one right after another for a sort of `almost live' movie on-line.

Enter the Beecam