Live Hive Cam
Watch our bees at work — live from the hive.
Turin Family Farm HiveCam
Three live feeds — watch each camera individually or together in Dual View. Stream availability is shown directly in each YouTube player.
Entrance Cam
The entrance camera faces the hive landing board, giving you a front-row seat to the colony's daily rhythm. Watch foragers depart and return loaded with pollen, young bees take their first orientation flights, guard bees inspect every arrival, and workers fan the entrance to regulate hive temperature.
- ✦Foraging traffic & pollen arrivals
- ✦Orientation flights by young bees
- ✦Guard bee inspection behavior
- ✦Ventilation fanning
- ✦Weather-related activity changes
Inside Hive Cam
An infrared view into the dark interior of the hive. This camera uses infrared light invisible to the colony — so you're watching completely undisturbed behavior. Observe bees clustering for warmth, moving between frames, tending comb, and performing internal ventilation. Note: this feed has no audio.
- ✦Infrared — no disturbance to bees
- ✦Clustering & heat management
- ✦Movement between frames
- ✦Comb tending & brood care
- ✦Internal ventilation behavior
Dual View
Both cameras side by side in a single stream. Compare what is happening at the entrance with what is happening inside the hive at the same moment. During a nectar flow, a robbing event, or a weather change, the dual view lets you see the full picture — outside and inside — simultaneously.
- ✦Entrance & interior side by side
- ✦Correlate outside events with inside response
- ✦Best view during nectar flows
- ✦Ideal for observing robbing events
- ✦See the full colony picture at once
Live feeds may be delayed by approximately 15–30 seconds.
Camera & Research Guide
Each camera reveals a different dimension of colony life. Use this guide to know what to look for on each feed.
Entrance Cam
The entrance camera faces the hive landing board, giving you a front-row seat to the colony's daily rhythm. Watch foragers depart and return loaded with pollen, young bees take their first orientation flights, guard bees inspect every arrival, and workers fan the entrance to regulate hive temperature.
- ✦Foraging traffic & pollen arrivals
- ✦Orientation flights by young bees
- ✦Guard bee inspection behavior
- ✦Ventilation fanning
- ✦Weather-related activity changes
Inside Hive Cam
An infrared view into the dark interior of the hive. This camera uses infrared light invisible to the colony — so you're watching completely undisturbed behavior. Observe bees clustering for warmth, moving between frames, tending comb, and performing internal ventilation. Note: this feed has no audio.
- ✦Infrared — no disturbance to bees
- ✦Clustering & heat management
- ✦Movement between frames
- ✦Comb tending & brood care
- ✦Internal ventilation behavior
Dual View
Both cameras side by side in a single stream. Compare what is happening at the entrance with what is happening inside the hive at the same moment. During a nectar flow, a robbing event, or a weather change, the dual view lets you see the full picture — outside and inside — simultaneously.
- ✦Entrance & interior side by side
- ✦Correlate outside events with inside response
- ✦Best view during nectar flows
- ✦Ideal for observing robbing events
- ✦See the full colony picture at once
Weather conditions directly affect hive activity visible on the cameras.
See the Magic Happen
Watch our live hive cam stream from Turin Family Farm in Senoia, Georgia.
Observe real honey bee activity at the hive entrance including pollen foragers returning from the field, orientation flights by young bees, guard bees defending the colony, temperature-control fanning behavior, nectar flow surges, and seasonal changes in hive traffic.
During swarm season, viewers may even witness swarm preparation behavior, increased drone activity, queen piping events, or robbing pressure from neighboring colonies.