THREE LITTLE BIRDS APIARIES BLOG

This past week we worked solely on the NSF Aggression Assay project. After a few weeks of training and preparation everything was set-up...

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...

Honeybees communicate through smell and visual cues. These visual cues include dances that help to communicate food source locations. The...

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...

Exciting news! I (Molly) was selected to participate in an REU experience at the University of Kentucky this summer. I will be working as...

Yesterday, I worked with an LSU student on her project. She was interested in collecting drones to artificially inseminate queens with...

Last week we collected mite samples to test their resistance against a Varroa Mite Treatment called, "Apivar." This experiment is a...

This past week I have been helping with a new experiment. We are looking into how viruses, specifically Deformed Wing Virus affects what...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Though the Wallace-Carver Leadership Symposium was officially at a close many of us decided to take a tour of the National Botanical...

Today was filled with so many memories and adventures. I will never forget this experience. We started early in the morning and made our...

We started bright and early this morning and made our way to the Whitten Building for the United States Department of Agriculture. We...

On July 31, we visited the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. This is a view from the National Agriculture Library of a small...

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...

Press Release from The World Food Prize

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...

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...