HiveShare

Bringing Bees Back Responsibly

HiveShare is more than just a hive-hosting program. It’s our professional, ethical approach to supporting pollinators, managed by Swarm SE Eco Bee Management, offering residents and businesses across the Limestone Coast the opportunity to support pollinators without becoming beekeepers.

Rather than asking you to raise bees, we place and manage four expertly maintained hives on suitable properties, and we take care of everything. You get the benefits of bees: improved pollination, enhanced biodiversity, and educational value without the burden, risk, or guesswork.

How HiveShare Works

1. Site Assessment & Safety Plan
   We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of your property. We look at sun exposure, shelter, flight paths, permanent clean water access, and distances to people and neighbours, plus vehicle accessibility, to make sure it's suitable not just for the bees, but for everyone’s peace of mind.
2. Four-Hive Clusters
   Each HiveShare site hosts a cluster of four hives. This is a deliberate design: it helps support strong, healthy colonies, balances pollination across your land, and ensures our servicing is efficient.
3. Installation
   We bring in high-quality, biosecurity-compliant hives, set them up in the ideal spot, and make sure they’re secure and well-positioned for optimal health and minimal disruption.
4. Ongoing Professional Management
   Under your subscription, we carry out scheduled inspections, feed when needed, manage pests or diseases, and make seasonal adjustments. If anything unexpected arises, such as a hive relocation, swarming risk, or damage, we handle it all.
5. Optional Honey Share
   When there’s surplus honey, we offer to bottle it for you, with your property name and harvest notes. It’s a personal touch we are grateful for, and it shows how carefully we tend the hives.

Why Choose HiveShare?

HiveShare operates on a monthly subscription, reflecting the reality that bees are livestock and require consistent professional care year-round. Your subscription includes:

• Zero Beekeeping Responsibilities: You host, and we do the scheduled hive inspections and maintenance. It’s as simple as that. And you don’t need prior experience.
• Ethical, Licensed Care: Hive servicing, equipment upkeep, and seasonal maintenance are managed by our licensed pest technicians and qualified beekeepers in accordance with professional livestock standards.
• Biosecurity Compliance: All our hives are B-Trace registered, and we strictly follow biosecurity protocols with disease management and hive health reporting.
• Local Impact: By hosting a hive cluster, you directly support pollination and biodiversity in the Limestone Coast region.
• Emergency Response: In the event of a biosecurity or weather-related event, we’ll handle it.
• Year-Round Stability: Bees are livestock, and we tend to their needs and provide year-round care.
• Safe & Professional: Everything from hive placement to servicing is planned with safety for people, for bees, and for the environment.

BeeSTAR Remote Monitoring

Smart Technology, Happier Hives

To strengthen the reliability and transparency of HiveShare, we use BeeSTAR across all our sites (including your four-hive clusters). Here’s how it works and the benefits you receive:

How BeeSTAR Works

• In-Hive Sensors: We place rugged, high-precision sensors directly in the brood box (the part of the hive where the queen lays eggs). These sensors track hive activity, including movement, temperature, and vibration.
• Data Transmission: The sensors feed data regularly to the BeeSTAR platform. You can access it via their web or mobile app.
• Alert System: BeeSTAR analyses the data and uses a “traffic-light” system (green/yellow/red) to highlight hive health, so we know immediately if something is off.
• Geo-fencing: The system can alert us if a hive is moved unexpectedly. This helps with biosecurity and theft prevention. 

Why BeeSTAR Benefits HiveShare (and You)

• Early Warning: Issues like swarming, disease, queen problems, or hive stress often show subtle signs before anything is visible. BeeSTAR lets us detect these early.
• Reduced Disturbance: Since many problems are detected remotely, we don’t need to open the hives as often to check. That means less stress on the bees.
• Operational Efficiency: By focusing our inspections and maintenance where needed, we save time, fuel, and labour. BeeSTAR can reduce inspection time by up to 90%.
• Hive Provenance and Trust: The data helps us (and you) make data-driven decisions, and it promotes transparency. If you ever want to verify how healthy your hives are, BeeSTAR’s records make that easy.
• Scalability: Because of remote monitoring, we can manage more hives efficiently and grow our HiveShare program without compromising quality.
• Security & Biosecurity: The geo-fence alerts help us monitor hive movement. Plus, accurate health logs support biosecurity compliance. 

Ethical Standards and Beehive Removal

Part of our commitment to ethical beekeeping means we take bee welfare seriously, including when hives are no longer viable or need to be relocated. Here’s how HiveShare handles bee hive removal and other critical interventions:

• Respectful Removal: If a hive needs to be removed (for example, if it's unhealthy, overcrowded, or needs relocation), we carry out the removal professionally and ethically.
• Rehoming When Possible: We always strive to rehome or rehabilitate colonies rather than simply destroy them.
• Responsible Disposal: If bees cannot be saved, we have protocols to dismantle the hive safely, minimising environmental impact and risk.
• Educational Opportunities: Some removal events also serve as learning moments, reinforcing the importance of bee health and ethical practices.

Join HiveShare and Register Today

HiveShare is currently in a pilot phase across the Limestone Coast (Mount Gambier, Port MacDonnell, Millicent, Penola, and nearby areas).

If you have usable space, good sunlight, and care about supporting your local pollinators, we'd love to talk. Together, we can strengthen biodiversity, create pollination resilience, and show that bees can be part of our landscape.

Register your interest today and become part of something bigger than honey. We’re saving the world, one bee at a time!^®