thehiveisreal — honey bee hive entrance video

96 fixed-camera sequences of a honey bee (Apis mellifera) hive entrance: bees land, walk, fan and enter on the landing board. Raw material for detection, tracking, segmentation, reidentifiction, counting, downstream datasets and tasks or self-supervised pretraining.

• Exactly 1800 frames each (30.03 s @ 59.94 fps), 1080×1920, H.264
• No audio, and no GPS/telemetry track
• Keyframe every second, so seeking by frame index is cheap

recording	sequences	indices	continuous run
2123	75	015–089	37.5 min
2125	21	000–020	10.5 min

Load

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("mrkschtr/thehiveisreal", split="train")  # by sequence
frame = ds[0]["video"].get_frame_at(900).data               # by frame

Needs datasets + torchcodec. Columns: sequence_id, source_recording, sequence_index, start_time_s, duration_s, n_frames, fps, width, height.

Careful: sequence_index and start_time_s are per recording, not global — both recordings use 15–20. Unique key is sequence_id; order by (source_recording, sequence_index). Consecutive indices within one recording are frame-contiguous and concatenate cleanly. Never concatenate across recordings.

Recorded at one apiary, late August 2026. Cut from continuous GoPro takes; start_time_s gives each sequence's offset in its source recording.

CC-BY-NC-4.0 — cite as Schutera, Mark, thehiveisreal (2026).