On Monday, October 15, we visited with Scott Lillie, local Bee Keeper, to learn about bees and how they help plants and people.
The girls were NOT impressed by how pollen tastes.
But most of them were game to try.
Scott showed them the different pieces of the hive. This piece keeps the babies and the queen on one level and allows the worker bees to make honey above.
Honeycomb with honey inside (but not for eating)
The hive -- there are about 60,000 bees in one hive. We could see about 2,000 at the top of this hive.
Each girl got to go up close to see the bees, but we couldn't stay too long as the guard bees started coming out to see what we were up to.
All the girls LOVED tasting the honey. Madilyn went back for fifths. Maggie pronounced it "Devine!"
We plan to work with Scott on the service project for our "Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden" journey. His bees need flowers to make honey, so we will go out in the spring & plant Yellow Clovers. We will also look into a bee keeping patch for the girls!
If you missed this event: to earn the Bee in this journey, please have your daughter find a picture or draw a picture of a bee, bring it to the next meeting and tell the troop one bee fact.
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