Today Bee Space members got together to finish our first handmade Warre hive! Early this morning we sanded and cut notches in our wood, and this afternoon we worked at the Yale Sustainable Food Project to varnish our wood with linseed oil to make a suitable home for our bees. Once the pieces dry, we’ll assemble the hive and be ready to adopt another hive come spring!
Big Plans
Yale Bee Space has some big plans under way discussed at our last meeting. The team is hoping to start a research project looking at temperature, weight, and humidity in our hives come spring and possibly starting projects with bee vaccinations against plant diseases and tracking bee movement using RFID chips.
Today at 4:30 in CIED, the club is holding an open google chat with the organization Open Source Beehives to get ideas for innovating and testing our own hives
Hope to see you there!
First Bee Space Workshop
Today, the members of Yale Bee Space were busy as bees preparing for the rest of the semester. All day, members attended workshops run by Glen. Members learned to use software like Solidworks and Arduino to create virtual representations of potential hive designs, write code and practice building sensors to gather data from within the hives. At the end of the day, we began constructing a Warre hive to house our bees come spring!
Yale News Article
Yale Bee Space just had an article published about the group in Yale News. Check it out!!
The End of the Beginning
Tonight, Yale bee space had its last meeting of its first semester as a club! But just because it is the end of the semester and the bees are bundled up for winter doesn’t mean things are slowing down, the members’ minds were abuzz all night with ideas for designs and specs of “smart hives:” beehives that will gather data (and honey) and serve as educational tools. The group is looking forward to next semester and are planning on building, designing, and installing hives as well as caring for our existing hives through the next few months!
The Big Move
Today, just after sunset, a team of eager beekeepers headed out to Yale West Campus to move our hives from their old location by the Molecular Innovations Center to their permanent home at the Yale West Campus Urban Farm. Now they can warmly and safely pass the winter nestled in their grove of growing dogwood trees!
Winter is Coming
Last week, Bee Space paid a visit to Yale West Campus Urban Farm to get our bees ready for winter. We fed the hives with a sugar solution, insulated the boxes to keep them warm as the temperature drops, and planted dogwood trees to protect the hives from the elements. Next week, we will move the hives into their new grove and they will officially be ready for winter!!
CEID Orientation and Meeting Thursday October 10th
Thursday October 10th at 4:00pm, members of Yale Bee Space will be attending an orientation at the Center for Engineering, Innovation, and Design. We will be learning how to use the laser cutter and other fun tools in the center so that we can start building, designing, and innovating beehives. The orientation will be followed later that night at 9:00pm by our weekly meeting in the CEID! Feel free to join us!