On October 7th,  the SeaBee Honey team assisted with our friends from the Center for Wildlife hosted the 4th graders from the Dondero School in Portsmouth, NH.  We have had visitors to this active apiary but never this many!   

We scheduled the day for October since we thought the weather would be cooler and we would have less bees buzzing about but the weather was warm and clear with the bees flying out and about.   We had lot of activities set up for the students and they were able to visit different stations where they could actively explore the plants and pollinators found in the habitat.  The Center of Wildlife brought down their ambassador screech owl for the event.

After the students finished with the stations we brought them up to one of the main fields that was teeming with pollinators and late season flowers.  The flowers  in bloom included golden rod, asters, coreopsis, some clover and autumn hawkbit.   We identified numerous pollinators and did a short discussion on the geology of the pollinator habitat which is a glacial esker.

The tour finished with a tour of the SeaBee Honey house where the student were able to see how we processed our traceable honey and beeswax.   The kids were able to see the machinery we use to process and bottle our honey and it was a great finale of the day.  

This was our final major tour of the pollinator sanctuary and we look forward to resuming corporate and school tours in 2023.  

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SeaBee Honey will be presenting at the 20th Annual BioBlitz at the Seacoast Science Center on October 1, 2022.   BioBlitz is an annual Community Science event where families and experts alike explore, discover, and document the biodiversity of Odiorne Point State Park. 

We will be presenting on pollinators and the challenges they face at 1130 am.   The rest of the agenda is as follows​