Practical things to do
- Check a bee colony and note variations in the size and shape of a worker, drone and queen. Draw well labelled diagrams.
- Note the workers performing different duties inside the colony and record what you have seen.
- Check a brood frame containing brood and honey and differentiate between: sealed brood and sealed honey; sealed worker and drone brood if present. Draw a diagram of brood frame to show position of brood, honey and pollen.
- Observe egg laying pattern of a good queen (eggs at the base of cell)
- Follow a returning forager and observe its activities in side a colony in an observation hive.
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