{"id":1681,"date":"2018-08-09T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:24:06","slug":"beekeeping-101-event-is-the-bees-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2018\/08\/09\/beekeeping-101-event-is-the-bees-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"Beekeeping 101 Event is the Bee\u2019s Knees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lively \u201chive\u201d of people at the Sciences Library for Beekeeping 101!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1684\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Iowa City Booster Club in front of Sciences Library\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library-1800x1350.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/IC-Booster-Club-in-front-of-Sciences-Library.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We heard an informative talk about bees and beekeeping from Jim Davis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1677\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Jim-Davis-Talk-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Jim Davis and Audience\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Jim-Davis-Talk-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Jim-Davis-Talk-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Jim-Davis-Talk-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Jim-Davis-Talk-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Jim-Davis-Talk.jpg 1101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we made a bee-line for the courtyard to take a closer look at bees and how they compare with other insects.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1679\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Pinned-Insects-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Pinned Insects\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Pinned-Insects-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Pinned-Insects-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Pinned-Insects-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Pinned-Insects-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Pinned-Insects.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, some of us acted out the waggle dance of the honey bee!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1678\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Kids-Waggle-Dance-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Kids Acting Out the Waggle Dance\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Kids-Waggle-Dance-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Kids-Waggle-Dance-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Kids-Waggle-Dance-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Kids-Waggle-Dance-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/08\/Kids-Waggle-Dance.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A huge thanks to Jim Davis of the East Central Iowa Beekeepers Association and the Iowa City Science Booster Club for making this an enjoyable and educational day for everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lively \u201chive\u201d of people at the Sciences Library for Beekeeping 101! 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Finally, some of us acted out the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2018\/08\/09\/beekeeping-101-event-is-the-bees-knees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Beekeeping 101 Event is the Bee\u2019s Knees!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,51,33],"tags":[60,52,67],"syndication":[41,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}