Bees work for your harvest. FairGrow shows which ones, and when.
The bee database brings together what you want to know about bees on your farm: which species pollinate your crop, when they fly, what a product means for them and which flowers keep them nearby. Every fact carries its source.
One place where bee data comes together, and flows back into your decisions
On the left the sources: bee species and the red list, records, flower visits, flowering times, flight weather and the toxicity of crop protection products. In the middle FairGrow links them to your crops and fields. On the right what you do with it: spray more safely, grow smarter and use pollination as a natural resource.
What goes in
- 🐝 Bee species and red list
- 📍 Records per country
- 🌸 Flower visits per crop
- 📅 Flowering calendar
- ☀️ Hourly flight weather
- 🧪 Products and toxicity
What you do with it
- 🛡️ Safer spraying
- 🌻 Crop and flower choice
- 💶 Value of pollination
- 🤝 Grower and beekeeper linked
- 📊 Nature reporting
Bees in twelve parts of FairGrow
You do not have to open the bee database separately. Bees appear exactly where you make a decision.
Spray window per product
Checks the dose against the European threshold for bees and shows the flowering of your crop and the flight hours per day.
Warning during flowering
Record a product above the bee threshold while your crop flowers and you get a warning with the flight hours of that day. Never a block.
Bees and spraying
Per field the flight hours for today and the coming days, next to the disease risks.
Flight hours in your weather message
Pick the Bees line in your daily message: how many hours bees fly today.
Pollination in euros
How much of the expected value of your field depends on pollinators, and pollination as a factor in your risk profile.
Arrange pollination
The expected flowering per crop and one click to add “arrange pollination”, three weeks ahead.
Flowers for pollinators
Which plants feed the wild bees of your crop before and after flowering, checked against what grows in your country.
Pollination per crop
For every crop a tile with its dependence on pollination and its flowering.
For beekeepers
Forage landscape from satellite data, flight weather, a hive scale, and a message when a grower nearby records a product above the bee threshold.
Answers about bees
Ask which bees pollinate your crop or when it flowers: the assistant answers from the bee database.
Dependence on pollination
In the nature and TNFD report: how much of your area and yield depends on pollinators.
Bees and bloom
A widget with the bees that fly now, and two sensors your automations can respond to.
From crop to bee: the whole story on one page
Choose a crop and FairGrow shows what pollinators mean for it, which bees they are, how to help them and what crop protection means for them. Click a bee or a plant and you get the details in a popup, without losing your place.
How much your crop depends on pollinators
The class according to Klein et al. (2007) and, where measured, the yield loss in trials with and without pollinators (Siopa et al. 2024).
Who pollinates your crop
Honeybee, bumblebees, solitary bees and cuckoo bees, with the species recorded most often on your crop.
How they live
Where they nest, what their larvae eat and how far they fly. That gives concrete tips: leave bare soil, leave dead stems standing.
Specialists
Bees that take nectar from your crop but depend on one plant family for their larvae. With the support plants from that family.
Crop protection per country
How many products are authorised on your crop, which exceed the first European bee screening, which are systemic and which tank mixes to avoid during flowering.
Support plants, and better not
Plants that feed the same bees before, during and after flowering, and plants that do more harm than good.
Specialists and their larval food
Per plant family the bees that depend on it, and which plants from that family you can sow.
Crop protection and bees
Authorised products in your country, the first European screening, systemic substances and tips for flowering.
Support plants
Their flowering next to the flowering of your crop, and how many of your bees they feed.
Every bee in a popup
How often it was recorded on your crop, whether it flies when your crop flowers, and how to help it.
Pollination is production, and it cannot be taken for granted
of the leading food crops in the world benefit from pollination by animals (87 of 115).
Klein et al. (2007), Proc. R. Soc. B 274: 303-313billion US dollars of global food production depends directly on pollinators every year.
IPBES (2016), Assessment report on pollinators, pollination and food productionof the 2,092 bee species in Europe are threatened on the European Red List; for 250 there is too little data to say.
European Red List of Bees (2026)Wild bees and bumblebees are a natural resource on your farm. Bumblebees already fly at lower temperatures than honeybees, and wild bees visit flowers that honeybees leave alone. Give them food before and after flowering and spray outside their flight time, and they stay close. That is where the bee database helps.
A quick tour of the screens
Small pieces of the app, each with what it gives you.
Crops and their pollinators
Per crop the dependence on pollination, the flowering months, the honeybee and the number of wild bees and bumblebees.
The flowering calendar
All crops on one timeline, so you see when there is forage and where the gaps are.
Spray window
For a product: the first European check, the flowering of your crop and the flight hours per day.
Bees in your country
Every species with photo, red list and flight period; the line is today.
Bees and spraying per field
In risk signals: the flight hours for today and the coming days.
Pollination in euros
In harvest value: which share of the expected yield depends on pollinators.
Flowers for your pollinators
Plants that feed the wild bees of your crop before, during and after flowering.
Every species on one page
Photos with creator and licence, and the red list for Europe and the EU.
For beekeepers
The forage landscape around your apiary and the flight weather for two weeks.
Where bees have been recorded
Per 10 km square: the pollinators of your crop, all species, threatened species or how well surveyed, with a legend in fixed classes.
Honest about what we do not know
Doubtful entries in the country checklist are shown apart, with the reason.
- 1Open licence
- 2Recognised species name
- 3Matches the country list
Only data that passes the checks
Every record goes through three checks. What does not fit is not thrown away: it is set aside, with the reason. So you can always see why something counts or not.
Only data you may actually use
We switch a dataset on only when its licence allows it: CC0, CC BY, the UK Open Government Licence or public domain. If the licence is unclear or rules out commercial use, we wait until the owner gives permission. In some places that keeps the list shorter, but you can rely on everything that is there.
Built on open science
Six kinds of sources, each cited in full in the app.
Discover Life world checklist
All bee species of the world with synonyms, by John Ascher and John Pickering. The backbone of the database.
European Red List of Bees 2026
The status of each species in Europe and in the EU, from least concern to critically endangered.
BeeBDC
The cleaned global bee occurrence dataset of Dorey and colleagues. We use the records with a CC0 or CC BY licence.
Global Bee Interaction Data
Bee and plant observations from the Big Bee project and GloBI, with each underlying dataset checked for its licence.
EU Pollinator Hub
How much each crop depends on animal pollination, based on Klein and colleagues (2007).
iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons, GBIF
Photos from observers and museum collections, each with photographer and licence. Common names from Wikidata.
BeeFunc
Nesting site, social behaviour, diet and body size of European bees (Aubouin et al. 2025, CC BY 4.0). The tips and flight distance follow from these.
Siopa et al. 2024
Measured yield loss in trials with and without pollinators, for over a hundred crops (data CC BY 4.0). Next to the classes of Klein et al. (2007).
Not finished yet, and labelled as such
Two parts are not there yet. We only show them once they are right, and tell you plainly what you can do in the meantime.
Bloom detection
Flowering rapeseed recognised from Sentinel-2 images. Not shown to users until it has been checked over a full flowering season.
A ready-made Zigbee hive scale
The Zigbee library has no hive scale yet.
Questions we get
Do I need a paid plan?
No. The bee database is part of every FairGrow account, including the free Starter plan.
Will a beekeeper be told when I spray?
Only if you switch that on yourself, and only beekeepers who asked for it. They hear the distance, the date and the active substance, never your name or your field.
Where do the flowering periods come from?
From iNaturalist observations with the annotation Flowering, in Europe, licensed CC0 or CC BY, counted per month. We use the smallest run of months with 80% of the records. Your variety and location may differ.
Why are there fewer records for my country than on a recording portal?
We only use records with an open licence. Several large recording portals publish their data under licences that need permission for use in a product like ours. We have asked; until then those records are not included.
Does an empty map cell mean there are no bees?
No. It usually means nobody recorded bees there, or the records are not published under an open licence. Cells with little survey effort are hatched on the map.
Can I add my own observations or photos?
Yes. Every species page links to a recording app for your observation. If a species has no photo yet, you can send one in. We check every photo before it appears.
In which languages does it work?
The screens are available in 57 languages. Common names appear in your language wherever a source has them; otherwise you see the scientific name or the name in a related language.
Why is the map thin in my country?
We only show records with an open licence. A large share of European bee records carries a licence that rules out commercial reuse; permission has been requested. White on the map means: no open record, not: no bees.
Where do the tips per bee come from?
From the traits of the species in BeeFunc: where it nests, what its larvae eat and how big it is. Body size tells how far it usually flies (Greenleaf et al. 2007).
Look up your own crop
Open the bee database in your FairGrow account, pick your country and your crop, and see which bees are out when it blooms.