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Bee Fight Club
This past week we worked solely on the NSF Aggression Assay project. After a few weeks of training and preparation everything was set-up...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 1, 20222 min read
More Stop Signals and Hive Checks
This week was really a continuation of last week's experiments. We worked on a little bit of everything. We worked more on the stop...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 24, 20221 min read
Bee communication
Honeybees communicate through smell and visual cues. These visual cues include dances that help to communicate food source locations. The...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 17, 20222 min read
Detour from Honeybees
Warning - Arachnid photos below. If you do not like images of spiders, do not scroll to the bottom of this post. This week has been...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 10, 20221 min read
Week One
Exciting news! I (Molly) was selected to participate in an REU experience at the University of Kentucky this summer. I will be working as...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 16, 20191 min read
Drones
Yesterday, I worked with an LSU student on her project. She was interested in collecting drones to artificially inseminate queens with...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 15, 20191 min read
Mites, mites, and more mites
Last week we collected mite samples to test their resistance against a Varroa Mite Treatment called, "Apivar." This experiment is a...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 27, 20191 min read
Honeybee Food Intake
This past week I have been helping with a new experiment. We are looking into how viruses, specifically Deformed Wing Virus affects what...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 18, 20191 min read
Painting Bees
Today was a busy day of painting and injecting bees for an important experiment. We painted 600 bees from 3 colonies. Each colony had a...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 11, 20191 min read
Grafting Larvae
This week has been a blast! I have been working on a NCSU student's project. We have been feeding newly grafted larvae a special diet....
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 9, 20191 min read
I'm Back!
I'm back in Baton Rouge again this summer. The USDA Honeybee Research Lab welcomed me back as an intern for another summer. I'm very...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Aug 5, 20181 min read
Last Week in the Lab
This week is my last week in Louisiana at the Honey Bee Research Lab. Today we continued a project I previously worked on where we placed...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Aug 2, 20181 min read
The end of the Wallace-Carver Leadership Symposium
Though the Wallace-Carver Leadership Symposium was officially at a close many of us decided to take a tour of the National Botanical...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Aug 1, 20181 min read
Eisenhower Executive Office Building (White House)
Today was filled with so many memories and adventures. I will never forget this experience. We started early in the morning and made our...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 31, 20182 min read
United States Department of Agriculture
We started bright and early this morning and made our way to the Whitten Building for the United States Department of Agriculture. We...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 30, 20181 min read
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC)
On July 31, we visited the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. This is a view from the National Agriculture Library of a small...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 29, 20181 min read
The Start of the Washington Leadership Symposium
On Monday, July 30th, I left Baton Rouge for DC. After arriving, we had a quick orientation. Above is a photo of the materials we...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 27, 20181 min read
Wallace-Carver Fellows
Press Release from The World Food Prize
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 26, 20181 min read
Last day in the lab before the Wallace Carver Fellowship Symposium.
Today was my last day in the lab before my trip to DC for the Wallace Carver Fellowship Symposium. For the past three days we have been...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 18, 20181 min read
Lab time
I finally had an opportunity to do some "real" lab work. I was given the opportunity by one of the scientists at the lab to take some wax...
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