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BU Beekeeping Club - Visiting the Hive
Urban beekeeping at Boston University has never been more popular, with more than 200 students signing up for the BU Beekeeping club. But building a happy, healthy hive? In the city? That's the real challenge.
BU’s beekeepers have ordered [...]bees by mail for several years in a row, but the bees have mysteriously departed the hive each time, leaving the Beekeeping club bee-less. It's a depressing, but it aligns with other data showing that Massachusetts lost 37 percent of honeybee colonies last winter. This time BU Beekeeping hopes their new hive will thrive and stay.
Read more about BU Beekeeping's urban beekeeping efforts along the Charles River on BU Today: /articles/2019/all-the-buzz-why-students-swarm-to-bu-beekeeping/
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BU Beekeeping Club - Installing the Hive
The bees came to BU from Georgia last May, all 10,000 of them, sent by overnight mail in a screened box slightly bigger than a briefcase.
Officials in the Boston University beekeeping club picked up the thrumming box at Fed Ex counter in Boston [...]much to the relief of the terrified mail clerk, and brought the bees to their new home on the Charles River.
The day had finally arrived, one the beekeepers had eagerly anticipated all spring, but the fun was just getting started. How do you get 10,000 bees into a new hive?
Read more about BU Beekeeping's urban beekeeping efforts along the Charles River on BU Today: /articles/2019/all-the-buzz-why-students-swarm-to-bu-beekeeping/
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