Focussed day on beework. Generally cleaned frames and assembled new ones. They are letting one or two of the REU's to go out and work with them in the bee yards, to give the students a bee experience. At the end of the day Ibrahim took all of us out to observe their work. Thought this was very nice of him. I worked on checking for queens in these small styrofoam hives where they in a way prep queens. Then I helped with Carman feed all the bees in I think their 3 bee yards. They are not interested in honey production. They want good queens to increase numbers and health in their hives for breeding experiments. We did get a lesson on using the washing machine which was very helpful. I did cook my first grand meal in the dorm when I got home from work around 8 pm.
Laundry Lesson, very intense
Working on the frames
In a bee yard
Checking to find queen
Checking in queen cell
Observing bee yard and work
Queen Cage
Feeding the bees
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