How not to beekeep: in the rain

Officially finished our first year of grad school!

UNCG Graduate Research and Creativity Expo

The Raymann lab attending the 2019 Southern Appalachian Honey bee Research Consortium Me, Heather, Drew, Gretel, Kasie and Megan

Beautiful "circling" of brood, pollen and honey

Full crop left over after abdomen dissection by Megan Damico

Great example of hive genetic diversity

Learning artificial insemination thanks to the Dr. Olav Rueppell's lab

Raymann lab hive inspections: Megan, Heather, Drew, Gretel, Myself and Kasie

Honey bee sperm, look how long they are! About 5 times longer than human sperm

We had been breeding wax moths in our building - oops

Megan and me making the best use of time and sharing our only magnetic plate for bead cleaning

Fall colors represented in pollen

Barcoding samples to be sent off for sequencing

Beautiful pollen

"Queen including cages" I made for my drone experiments - it will force the queen to lay on drone comb

I love being a part of the Raymann lab!

Drone collection

Drone dissections working with Dr. David Tarpy's lab at NC State

Hive inspections

Megan and myself tending to the hives

Busy bees at the hive entrance

Bees packing honey into cells, look at those cute butts!