# Bee Hunter - Bee lining tool — Bee Lining & Wild Hive Finder

> Bee Lining & Wild Hive Finder (iPhone/iPad app by Michael David.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bee-hunter-bee-lining-tool/id6788530309 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Michael David](https://appshunter.io/developer/1893102990)
- Category: Sports, Navigation
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.5 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-14
- Data updated: 2026-07-20
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bee-hunter-bee-lining-tool/id6788530309/reviews.md

## What is Bee Hunter?

Bee lining is the old woodsman's art of finding wild honeybee colonies: catch a bee at a feeding station, time how long it takes to fly home and back, note its direction — and follow the beeline to the bee tree.

Bee Hunter puts that whole craft on your phone.

AT THE STATION
• Set up a bee line station at your exact GPS position
• Mark your bees by color and time each flight with a one-tap stopwatch
• Capture flight direction with the built-in compass — confirm before you record
• Every flight refines the estimate: directions are averaged, outliers get diluted

ON THE MAP
• Each bee draws a line on the map — color-matched, pointing where it flew, sized by flight time (2–3 minutes ≈ within 100 m, 10 minutes ≈ a mile)
• Where the lines converge, that's your bee tree
• Mark found trees, log revisits over the years, and mark the disappointments too ("oh no, it's someone's hive")
• Navigate off-trail with a straight-line bearing from your position to any tree

BUILT FOR THE BACKCOUNTRY
• Download USGS Topo and Satellite maps for your planned area before you leave — by visible map area or by GPS coordinates and radius
• Everything works with zero cell service: recording, maps, navigation
• Export waypoints as GPX/KML for your Garmin or other GPS apps

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
• No accounts, no servers, no ads, no tracking — everything lives in your own private iCloud
• Share individual stations or trees with people you choose, read-only, via Apple's iCloud sharing
• Nothing is ever public

Whether you're reviving a family tradition or discovering bee lining for the first time, Bee Hunter is the field notebook, stopwatch, compass, and map — all in your pocket.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-07-14

No release notes.

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