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It is finally spring in Wisconsin, and the nesting trial hoop house at Arlington Agricultural Research Station is now home to spring bumble bee queens! Many thanks to the staff at Arlington (Gerry, Jeff, and Shannon), as well as my intrepid fellow grad students (Erin, Jade, and Alden) for their invaluable help in setting up the hoop houses, burying the nests under ground, and catching mama bees. Above, see the crew after installing a mesh cover over the hoop house skeleton to keep the bees inside, and my reaction to having successfully captured a queen bee using the lab's bee vacuum. Now that the first batch of queens has been released into the hoop house, I'll be busy feeding them and monitoring whether any have established colonies in the milk jug nests.
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