The rain held off for half an hour or so. We got into a couple of hives to check for food levels and marked the queens from the NUCs we installed yesterday. Dr. Wison was very impressed.
Not deep dives by any means.
Did you actually go in the hives in the rain?
The lead scientist (taxonomist), Dr. Julie Wison, of the OSU Oregon Bee Atlas Program visited our hive dive this morning.
She first heard about our exciting program and bee club by listening to the Podcast Polli Nation with Dr. Andony Melathopous wherein he interviewed me a couple of weeks ago.
She made a large donation via her personal foundation to our efforts.
Thank you Dr. Wilson.