Jul 19, 2016
Back to the drawing board
My interns (James and Joanna) and I recently installed pollen traps on our observation hive at Tufts University. We installed the pollen...
Jul 7, 2016
The Installation.
This year marks my first bee installation! Although I have been studying and keeping bees for about 3 years now, I had only worked with...
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...
Mar 15, 2016
100% loss
My very first Langstroth hive did not make it through the winter. It’s always a gamble going into the New England winter. Especially when...
Mar 4, 2016
Balance is key
Recently, Harmen P. Hendriksma and Sharoni Shafir of the Bee Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel...