The bee trip!!!

Lisa Merritt
The bee trip
6/17/2016


This was absolutely my favorite part of bio 213!! I did not grow up around bugs and bees. I was just fascinated by the amount of bees there were!! There were hundreds of them!! Also, Every bee has there job. The drones are the bigger bees (They are HUGE!!) and they dont gather nectar like worker bees their whole job is to fertilize the queen. I also learned from other research, after mating drones die, and when winter comes they are killed off by the other bees because they are no longer essential to the hive. The worker bees are all female and are the necatr collectors. Then there is the queen who is the mot important, bigggest and job is egg layer. The last is the worker bee which is the one that gathers nectar from the flowers. In order for us to enter the beehive we had to wear bee suits and Gwen sedated them with smoke. We essentially opened every section of the beehive and checked for honet and the location of the queen. After the queen is located the beehive check is done. Thanks Gwen for taking us out and Chris for answering my many questions.