Hello Tigers!
Our next meeting will be a nature walk around campus this Saturday, 4/22 at 3pm. We'll meet at the Sentinel statue!
Next week the Beekeeping Club will be having our final sale of the school year! Come by the SAU and the Sentinel statue next Wednesday, 4/26 starting at 9:30am to buy honey and crafts!
RIT Beekeeping Club members were busy this past week, making wax wraps and checking up on Hive A! Read more below.
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This Week's Hive Updates
Hive A:
General notes
- Saw multiple frames of eggs
- Few queen caps but no queen cells
- Didn’t see the queen
- Tons and tons of pollen stored (see picture of bees with pollen baskets)
Honey super
- 3 partial frames of honey
- 7 empty/not drawn out frames
Top box
- 3 full pollen frames
- 2 full frames of honey
- 1 partial frame of honey/pollen
- Four frames of brood (beautiful setup, see picture above)
Bottom box
- 5 empty frames
- 2 partial brood frames
- 3 honey/pollen storage frames
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Wax Wrap Making!
Club members met in the 1829 Room this past weekend to make beeswax wraps.
These wraps are eco-friendly alternatives to plastic wrap. If you weren't able to make it to the meeting, we'll be selling some wraps at our sale next Wednesday, 4/26.
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