IN PRINT: The Secret Lives of Bees on Campus

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New Jersey State Apiarist Tim Shuler chats it up with a student after a beekeeping class

Evidence of spring on campus usually takes the form of boat shoes and madras print shorts, but this year watch out for buzzing bees. Lots of them. But we can’t tell you exactly where they’ll be.

The BEE Team, a new campus organization that was started last fall by Michael Smith ‘10, offered free beekeeping classes this winter and will begin maintaining an active bee yard on campus this spring.

Where are the hives? Hard to say:

“We’ve placed them strategically so that you won’t run into them if you don’t want to and so that the administration won’t freak out about them being too close to residences,” the club says.

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By Ellen Shakespear on March 21st 2010, 4:07pm
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