Summer 2023
Don’t you think 40 degrees C is a little hot?
It starts with B. not G!
Winter 2022
New home on Milbank! Check out the greenhouse!
Goodbye Barnard Hall roof! It’s been quite a ride!
Getting colonies screened to move.
Last minutes in their first home at Barnard.
Summer 2018
Newly emerged bees in new large cage.
Winter 2018
Thermal image of colony in the dead of winter.
Summer 2017
Bee approaching Hydrangea in Sulz Quad.
Bee on flowers.
Bees visiting chicken waterers.
Bee on flowers.
Bee on crocuses.
Summer 2015
Bee on purple flowers.
Bee working Goldenrod in Central Park.
Bee on flowers on Columbia campus.
Beautiful picture of our bees from James Casey.
Bee on flowers on Columbia campus.
Bees getting water at a rooftop drainpipe.
Bee on flowers on Columbia campus.
A bee getting water on damp steps.
Bee on flower in Central Park.
Bees drinking from where they are supposed to for once.
Bee on flower in Central Park.
Queen and workers on a frame.
Bee on flower in Central Park.
Workers on a frame.
Bee on TN Coneflower in Riverside.
Holding a frame for inspection.
Bee on flower in Morningside.
Workers on an frame with numerous cells of worker brood.
Find the queen!
Bees gathering water from rock landing areas in their ‘watering’ tub.
Hive inspection on a split before putting in a new queen.
Pollen forager about to land on a cherry blossom in Riverside Park.
Fastening the queen cage on a frame with wax.
Winters seem pretty much the same every year up here.
Winter sun keeps us warm!
Bee on flower in Morningside.
Honey Extraction Video – Fall 2013 -Barnard Communications, Barnard College – Video by Kibret Yebetit ’14
Bee outside Milbank.
Pollen trap engaged in front of a hive to collect pollen for human consumption.
Good morning!
Foragers entering the hive through the closed pollen trap entrance.
Bee on flowers on Columbia campus.
A bee helps with the science.
Bee on flowers in Central Park.
Flat Stanley helps with beekeeping.
Bee on flowers in Central Park.
Filtering raw melted wax for candle=-making.
Bee on flowers in Central Park.
Heating the ‘clean’ wax in a double boiler.
Bee on flowers in Central Park.
Hannah pours a candle.
Bee working the white clover.
Artsy candle shot!
Picture from my folks’ home in Nashville supplied by my stepfather, Douglas Knight.
Making candles with the class of 2013!
Forager with large pollen loads on her corbiculae.
Snow on our roof and the bees’ roofs.
Old forager (you can tell by the frayed wings) on white clover.
Melted hive entrance means they’re keeping it warm in there!
Honey Extraction Fall 2013
Note the bees in the upper left depositing nectar in future honey cells.
NYC honey!
Pollen stored as ‘beebread’ in cells.
Nick and Sarah enjoying the honey extraction.
Workers (lower right) communicating and possibly performing Trophallaxis.
Prof Snow positions new frames in the extractor.
Workers on an frame.
Aditi watches the process.
Workers on an frame of capped honey.
Prof Snow uncaps a frame and Karolin cranks away while Profs Glendenning and Callahan look on.
Workers with heads in the cells feeding young larvae.
Prof Glendinning cranks the extractor.
Workers on a frame in which the outer band of brood has yet to hatch.
Danielle uncaps a frame.
New Carniolan queens arrived via FEDEX.
Prof Snow uncaps a frame.
Bee gathering the last of the nectar from these flowers.
Ariana cranks the extractor.
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2010-2012
Williams College colors on the hives and the flowers.
Bees enjoying the Berkshires.
Bees not enjoying the Berkshires.