gtbees

I'm Jennifer Leavey, an immunologist turned educator turned crazy bee lady. I teach biology at Georgia Tech and also head up the Georgia Tech Urban Honey Bee project, a service learning research program that is part of the College of Sciences. We created our "honey bees get wired" GTS campaign in hopes of raising funds to connect our hives to lots of gadgets that will make monitoring the bees and collecting data easier.

and the AJC!

Also, the students who will be working on the "honey bees get wired" project will be at the Atlanta Mini Maker Faire at Georgia Tech next Saturday the 26th. They'll have some of our equipment on display. We may even bring live bees (!)

We love her, too! We're hoping she'll give some hive products like propolis and honey the Kubanek lab treatment. People in eastern Europe take propolis tinctures all the time and the bees use it to protect themselves from intruders. There have to be some great antimicrobials in there.

The bees are doing well! We checked on them on Wednesday. We think they have enough honey stores to make it through the winter, but only time will tell.