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Creating a Buzz

BeeClub
Despite a winter setback, the Endicott Beekeeping Club has a new hive and high hopes for honey.
7/14/2022
By: Sarah Sweeney

Since its founding by Olivia Mersicano ’22 in 2019, the Endicott Beekeeping Club is still creating a buzz on campus. Despite a few setbacks—one hive didn’t make it through the recent Massachusetts winter—club advisors School of Visual and Performing Arts Dean Mark Towner and Director of Career Services Kate Chroust have installed a new hive, which appears to be thriving. While many of Endicott’s bee hives are established using frames featuring built-in honeycomb foundations, Towner and Chroust forgot some frames during installation and now the bees are forming honeycomb—in staggering shapes—organically. The duo hopes that Endicott honey may soon be on the horizon.

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Dean Mark Towner and Director of Career Services Kate Chroust remove the cover from one of the hives.
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A close-up view of the hive’s lid.
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Towner and Chroust work together to carefully lift up the frames that comprise the hives.

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Using a stiff brush, Towner gently moves the bees to inspect the hives.
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A view of one of the premade frames with honeycomb-like features that are typically used to form the hives.
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Buzzworthy stuff! An excited Kate Chroust takes a peek into the newest hive.

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Towner and Chroust open up the new hive, revealing a view of the organically formed honeycombs inside.
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Another view of the organically formed honeycombs.
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While working with the bees, everyone is dressed in head-to-toe protective wear that’s also sting-proof.
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A close-up look at a piece of honeycomb.