Published on Feb 29, 2016
The backstory
Discoveries in science can come from unexpected sourcesI became a scientist because my undergraduate mentor allowed me the opportunity to make my own discoveries. While a young student at Swarthmo...
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Published on Feb 25, 2016
Spring is coming...and so are the bees!
It's that time of year when we start to think about our field season. We maintain a group of colonies here at Indiana University, up on Bayles Road. This is the site of the IU Research and Teachi...
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Thanks for the question! Bees are surprisingly manageable in this sense. We are buying a new queen and will take 1/2 the workers (frames) from the one colony and put them in a new hive box with the new queen. Over a period of a few days, her pheromones allow her to communicate with these workers...more
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