At 7PM July 22, 2010, the rescheduled Beekeeping Demo was on! I loaded up the mini van with all my gear. Deeps, frames, foundation, NUC box, books, certificates, telescopic lid, insect display, paper wasp nest and the "observation hive" and took the family over to the Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit, NJ. I was greeted by Jackie upon entering. She was surprised at my age. She imagined some old timer. My beekeeping demo stated at 7:30pm. Most people blew past the tables set up with the deeps and books and went directly to the observation hive. This was a good opportunity for me to describe what was in the hive. Workers, drones, capped brood and the queen cells. My observation hive has five queen cells in it. I answered a lot of questions with some help from Quinn and Evelyn.
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| Right here is one of the queen cells. |
This was a great experience and I will definitely be volunteering for more of these in the future. One of my main objectives is to educate people about honey bees as well as to teach the differences between honeybees, wasps and yellow jackets. People often think they are one in the same.
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| Setting up the frame display. |
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| Evelyn explaining the "queen cage". |
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