Best Bees

Best Bees

Bzzz 2012

 Co-founder and COO Sean Cahill joins company, develops proprietary software system, Bzzz,  designed for recording and displaying data collected by beekeepers on their beehive visits. Bzzz is a desktop program, beekeepers input data from the field once they have returned…

Bzzz 2013

Cahill develops a mobile version of Bzzz to allow beekeepers to record data while in the field, in real-time.

Bzzz 2018

We hired our first in-house software engineer, Elizabeth Rocheleau, to work on Bzzz with Cahill.

Bzzz July 2021

We hired our first in-house data analyst, Dylan Garcie, to identify and present the trends and patterns within our continuously growing database on honey bees. 

Bzzz Dec 2021

We developed proprietary software to process and analyze genomic sequencing data, making it easier and faster to analyze species present in honey samples, bacteria samples, and fungal samples at scale.

Carbon Sequestration 2021

We’ve started looking into what specific plants that bees pollinate, and we’re creating the preliminary list to review with plant ecologists and professors at Ithaca college.

Carbon Sequestration Jan 2022 pt 2

We’ve started cross comparing the results of the research into what specific plants bees pollinate — with our own internal project HoneyDNA — with carbon sequestering plants to check for significant overlap between bees’ pollination efforts and the prevalence of…