LIVE Bee Cam Up and Running Again!
I am so excited to announce that our bee camera, which has been offline throughout most of the season, is up and running again! With our camera, you can see […]
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Animal Architects at the National Building Museum
Forming their own building material, building perfect hexagons, and maintaining uniform structure and function, honey bees are certainly true animal architects! Today, our researcher Sasha and I had the opportunity […]
National Building Museum Talk: WHAT’S ALL THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES?
Join us as we discuss the evolution of modern beekeeping at the National Building Museum on August 15th, from 6:30-8:00 pm! We are very excited about this event, and hope […]
Intruder Alert!
What bee has a black abdomen, a fuzzy yellow thorax, and is around an inch long? Certainly not a honey bee! Recently several carpenter bees have found their way into […]
Bees at the National Building Museum??
Our friends at the National Building Museum will not be installing bees there anytime soon, though they will be exhibiting the Hive, thanks to the museum’s partnership with Studio Gang! The Hive […]
New Season, New Junior Beekeeper–and New Installation!
Good afternoon everyone, Today, we have installed six new hives, with the help of a gentleman named Kevin. He drove the bees to our apiary and stayed for an extra hour […]
Eulogy for Our Bee Cam
Bee Camera. Bee Cam. The Cam. You had many names. You were most helpful for remote inspections, when we were out of town or when the sky released drops of […]
Farmers and Distillers to open next week!
We were recently featured in GW’s student newspaper, the Hatchet, about the GW apiary’s role in contributing honey toward Farmers and Distillers, owned by the Farmers Restaurant Group. We here […]
Happy National Honey Bee Day!
National Honey Bee Day was first celebrated in 2009, to bring awareness to the bee industry, especially in the face of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Please support your local beekeepers: […]
CCTV interview
On Wednesday June 15th, Dr. Doebel was featured on CCTV America, in its Global Business America segment that discussed the agricultural importance of honey bees. Special thanks to reporter Kelly Rice […]
