The Boojum Bees

We would like to give a profuse thanks to Strachan Apiaries for donating a New World Carniolan queen honeybee to the Honeybees and World Health program!! We appreciate your support, and your donation helps us bring the wonder of the honeybee to students and classrooms.

She arrived with her entourage of queen attendants this week and is being introduced to our large, three frame observation hive. Frames of eggs, brood, and food stores were chosen from the Boojum Beeyard hives and placed in the glass observation hive. They have been without a queen long enough to be ready to accept the new queen.

This is very exciting! Once the bees have accepted this new queen, the observation hive will be ready to take into classrooms to show and teach more students about honeybees and how profoundly important they are to our world’s health!