Data Mining Varroa: Sharing Insight from Users of Apiary Management Software in the United States

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Acknowledgements

We would also like to thank the Hive Tracks team for contributing their data to complete this project. We appreciate the continued support of the data science effort around good beekeeping practices.

Disclosure Statement

Authors James Wilkes and Joseph Cazier are partners in the company that owns Hive Tracks, the apiary management software which provided the data for this project. One of the on-going goals of Hive Tracks is to conduct analytics and research to benefit the beekeeping sector and to provide opportunities for citizen scientists to contribute to the global beekeeping effort. Additionally, all the Hive Tracks data has been anonymized and aggregated to hide information that could pinpoint one specific beekeeper. This is in line with the Hive Tracks Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies for users of the software.

Please note that one of the co-authors, Claudia Pittiglio, is employed with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Animal Production and Health Division, Rome, Italy. We note that the views expressed in this information product are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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Funding

This project was funded in part by a Healthy Hives 2020 grant from Project Apis m.