Angeline community helping ‘save the bees’ with new BeeHome
Angeline community helping ‘save the bees’ with new BeeHome
Publish Date: 2026-05-31 07:27:00
Source Domain: baynews9.com
LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. — A Pasco County community is turning to artificial intelligence in an effort to help save one of nature’s most important pollinators.
The community of Angeline has installed a brand-new robotic beehive system equipped with AI technology, becoming the first master-planned community in Florida to use the innovative system. The technology is giving beekeepers a powerful new tool in the fight to protect the bee population.
Inside a container is what some believe could be a game changer for the future of bees.
“We are here to help advance our mission to save the bees by educating the community and also helping pollinate their farm, which is right here behind us,” says Steve Peck, managing director at Beewise.
At the Angeline Community Center, space is being made for a new resident: bees.
“The problem is bees are collapsing at an alarming rate,” said Peck. “About half of bees that beekeepers are managing will collapse in a given year, and that rate is only accelerating.”
Peck said bees play a critical role in the global food supply. They pollinate about 75% of the crops we eat and about 80% of the flowers around the world. To help combat colony collapse, Beewise has developed what it calls BeeHome.
“Beewise has created the BeeHome, which is a mix of robotics, cameras and sensors that help us monitor and manage the bees more effectively,” said Peck. “The result is bees thrive in this environment. Being able to manage them, get insights into the hive, and the result has been about a 70% reduction in what we see of colony collapse when bees are living inside of this technology.”
“It does not surprise me that they have found a way to put it into this beehive today,” said Abby Davis, a computer science teacher at the Angeline Academy of Innovation. “Hopefully, it makes the bees happier.”
Davis and her students attended a field trip, getting a first-hand look at how AI can be used to solve real-world environmental…
