A buzz in the GroW Garden
On Sunday July 22nd, our Junior Beekeeper James and I had the incredible opportunity to discuss the biology and behavior of honey bees with members of GW GroW Garden! We […]
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Dumbarton Oaks Park Anniversary Celebration
On Saturday April 12th, one of our new researchers, Jordan, and I had the incredible opportunity to put together a booth for Dumbarton Oaks Park Anniversary Celebration. We brought our full observation hive, […]
Bee-ing Prepared: Volunteer Day February 3, 2018
Over the weekend, GW Buzz began making preparations for another amazing season of beekeeping in D.C.! We reached out to our George Washington community and had the pleasure of engaging […]
Honey Extraction!
On Sunday, September 10th we hosted a group of amazing volunteers who helped us harvest and extract our honey- We were able to successfully extract 175 lbs of honey! A […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Interconnections Between Culture, Language and Bees!
We and the honey bees were quite excited to host a lovely group of students from the EC English Language School in Washington, D.C on June 7th. I was able to give […]
Back in the Spring of Things!
The GW Undergraduate Honey Bee Lab and Apiary has been bustling these past few weeks, as our research is fully under way! We have several ~brand new research teams~ that […]
