Last year was our first year participating in the CEH honey monitoring scheme, our results gave us such fascinating information on how and where our bees forage, we were excited to sign up again to see if this year's results show a different pattern.
Several members of our advanced bee team help care for the bees during the summer holidays, so they took the two samples necessary for the study. The samples come from newly capped honey comb and are sent off to the laboratory for analysis. Results take a long time to come back, as each pollen source is DNA identified. Super opportunity for the children to be involved in 'live' science, we will let you know the results as soon as we have them.
Several members of our advanced bee team help care for the bees during the summer holidays, so they took the two samples necessary for the study. The samples come from newly capped honey comb and are sent off to the laboratory for analysis. Results take a long time to come back, as each pollen source is DNA identified. Super opportunity for the children to be involved in 'live' science, we will let you know the results as soon as we have them.
 Taking the samples from the newly capped honey comb. It was really tricky getting the honey into the bottom of the tubes! The bees liked cleaning up the mess afterwards though!! |  |
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