Beekeeping at RIT

Location

Gordon Field House

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Visitors will be introduced to the practice of beekeeping on the RIT campus, learn about the tools we use, watch the processes used to harvest, spin, and bottle up honey, and will be able to view the inner workings of the hive with our indoor observation hive! We will have our hand-crank honey extractor, interesting poster displays about the practice of beekeeping and what it is like to have hives on campus and at RMSC, and we will have an indoor-safe display that is filled with bees!

A sketch of a honey bee next to the words "RIT Beekeeping Club."RIT Beekeeping Club Logo

RIT Beekeeping Club Logo

Bees on Honey Comb Many honey bees are on a yellow colored honey comb. Some of the cells of honey comb are filled with yellow or orange colored pollen.

Bees on Honey Comb

A white-gloved hand and arm hold up a frame of honey bees that has just been lifted out of a beehive. There is green vegetation in the background.

Holding up a frame of bees

President Emma Beekeeping - Photo courtesy of Marielle Scott Emma is seated in front of a bee hive. She is wearing her signature pink bee suit and is smiling. She holds an old frame of honeycomb. There is smoke coming out of a smoker that floats in the air in front of her.

President Emma Beekeeping - Photo courtesy of Marielle Scott

A closeup of a white gloved hand covered in propolis holds up a hive tool, with a single honeybee resting on the edge.

A Single Honeybee - Photo courtesy of Marielle Scott

CO-VP Loudon in his Bee suit -Photo courtesy of Marielle Scott A close up image of Loudon shows him in his bee suit with the mesh hood on his head. He is smiling and holding a hive tool that is covered in dripping honey.

CO-VP Loudon in his Bee suit -Photo courtesy of Marielle Scott

Ellie is kneeling by a beehive. She is smiling and holding a bee smoker. She wears a white bee suit.

CO-VP Ellie

John is kneeling by a beehive in his full bee suit and gloves. He is smiling and holding a hive tool. On the ground in front of him is an old frame of honey comb and the smoker. Treasurer John Beekeeping -Photo courtesy of Marielle Scott

Treasurer John Beekeeping -Photo courtesy of Marielle Scott

Location

Gordon Field House

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Topics

Food
STEM
Student Clubs and Organizations
Sustainability

Exhibitor
Emma Eagen
Ellie Warren
loudon mehling
John Miklencic
Geoffrey Gracia
Deen Grey

Organization
RIT Beekeeping Club affiliation

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