Best Bees

Best Bees

What is Greenwashing?

What is Greenwashing?

Contents: Key Takeaways What is Greenwashing?  The Evolution of Corporate Greenwashing Why Do Companies Greenwash?  Understanding the Different Types of Greenwash How Does Greenwashing Hurt Consumers?  How to Avoid Greenwashing as a Consumer The Four Categories of Environmental Communication: Classifications…

June 12, 2023

I checked the cell raisers → the original cell raiser had 27/30 takes, and the new cell raiser had 18/30 takes. I reached out to our NYC facility to see if they wanted locally reared queens, and they said yes.…

June 9, 2023

I checked the cell raisers; there are no takes in either of them. A mating queen got into one, and in the other a virgin queen was there and had destroyed the other developing cups. After finishing up with the…

June 7, 2023 part 2

After getting home from the apiary, we did our fifth graft. We made another cell raiser to try to combat the problem of mated queens getting in and destroying our developing queen cells; so we doubled the amount of cups…

June 7, 2023

We check in on the fourth graft; another mated queen got into our cell raiser! Outside forces were messing with the space the cell raiser was in and a mated queen got in. We went to visit the apiary; we…

May 28, 2023

Our May 28th (third) graft failed. There was a mated queen inside the cell raiser and she destroyed the developing queen cells. There was only one cell that survived, so we put that one into a mating nuc. At this…

May 18, 2023

We went and checked on the queens and added 12 more cells from the second graft to the cell raiser. The queens from the first graft weren’t mated yet due to bad weather, so we left them there to check…

May 8, 2023

Today, we took the cups that are developing and put them into the incubator. Then we drove to our research apiary and checked on our mating nucs, to make sure they are queenless and can support the developing queen cells.…

April 30, 2023

After 48 hours, we had 28 takes → 73%, great outcome for our first real graft. We left them in the cell raiser until 8 days later.