Jun 15, 2016
The Starks Lab is ready for Tour de Hives 2016!
As some of you may have seen on Facebook, the Starks Lab “bee huts” got a serious facelift this summer. During the first week of the...
Aug 13, 2015
Powdered bees
As described in my last post (Battling Bees), my current research project involves mass-marking bees from 8 separate observation hives so...
Aug 4, 2015
Battling bees: A day in the field
To investigate honey bee mineral preferences, I put out artificial feeders (the upside-down tubes in the video) with different mineral...
Jul 28, 2015
How to train your honey bees
Honey bees can be trained to do a lot of things. Recently, they have been trained to detect bombs, diabetes, and maybe even cancer. I...
Jul 21, 2015
If you are a beekeeper, you have probably asked this question...
Why do honey bees like dirty water? It is a common question—in fact, this is not the first blog post concerning honey bees and dirty...