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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
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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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 15, 20181 min read
Mites or No Mites?
Today I worked a special project with some of the LSU students. We sampled emerging bees and determined if they were infested or...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 13, 20181 min read
Weekend Trip to New Orleans
A co-worker and I made our way back to New Orleans to explore. We visited the Insectarium and the Aquarium and many other tourist...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 10, 20181 min read
Pupa and mite in a pill case?
We spent the day pulling pupa from frames and putting them into dishes. This task is not easy, as you pull the pupa out it is easy to...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 9, 20181 min read
Mississippi Trip
Today was a busy day in the field. I went past the border to Mississippi! We spent the entire day going through 40 colonies. We were...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jul 5, 20181 min read
Happy Fourth of July!
These past two weeks have been busy. One of the scientists I have been working with and many of the lab employees took a trip to North...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 27, 20181 min read
APHIS Project
This week has been full of work at the lab. We are currently working on a project for APHIS that involves emerging bees. We are tagging...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 20, 20182 min read
Busy as a Bee
Today was filled with fun, exciting and unusual finds. I started with helping a few students with a part of their thesis project. I had...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Pride in Trees
Today was a fun and different day at the bee lab. Besides pulling and injecting pupa. We took a "snack break" to celebrate Pride Month....
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 17, 20181 min read
Week Two
Today was filled with many different tasks. The photo above is of me completing a mite-wash. This is the process of finding a rough...
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Three Lil Birds Farm
Jun 13, 20181 min read
Pesticides & Deformed Wing Virus
Yesterday and Today was filled with lab work. We cut the abdomens off frozen Honeybees, ground them into a buffer solution and diluted...
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