{"id":4156,"date":"2015-06-17T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2015-09-28T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:37:34","slug":"bees-and-hives-and-suits-oh-my-an-unexpected-monday-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/2015\/06\/17\/bees-and-hives-and-suits-oh-my-an-unexpected-monday-swarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees and Hives and Suits \u2026 Oh my! \u2026 An Unexpected Monday Swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the unexpected that is the most interesting in life, don\u2019t you think?\u00a0\u00a0 Monday morning \u2026 making your way through email \u2026 the phone rings \u2026 there\u2019s a bee swarm in the tree in front of the College of Nursing building \u2026 not on the list of things to do \u2026 not MY area of experience or expertise \u2026 but it is at the top of my LIST \u2026. NOW.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, we have lots of expertise on campus including the Salt Lake City Beekeeper, the President of the University of Utah Beekeeper\u2019s Association, and the Salt Lake County Bee Inspector.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, with Utah “beeing” the BEEHIVE STATE with the honey bee as its official state insect<\/a> \u2026 well \u2026 what did you expect!<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3173\"<\/a>The Salt Lake Beekeeper advised us on the situation.\u00a0 Bees in swarms are actually quite focused on their own needs and not much at all on people.\u00a0 So they mostly ignored us and went about their business of finding a new hive location \u2013 which is what swarming is primarily about.\u00a0 They stayed in and around the tree for about 1\u00bd hrs and then totally disappeared, apparently headed for a better abode.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the President of the Utah Beekeeper\u2019s Association, which maintains the new hives on the north side of the Health Sciences Education Building [HSEB] arrived \u2026 but not before the swarm had left.\u00a0\u00a0 Together we checked the HSEB hives to verify that the swarm had not originated from those hives.\u00a0\u00a0 DEFINTELY NOT was the conclusion as you will see from the videos (taken by Richard Beck) as I donned a beekeeping suit for the very first time and assisted (that means mostly watched) as Stephen Stanko (beekeeper extraordinaire) checked and then added a second story (upper box) to three of the hives.\u00a0\u00a0 After watching for a while, I got to check and add new accommodations to the last hive!!<\/p>\n

You never know what a Monday morning will bring along the University of Utah health sciences education corridor \u2026 bees busily swarming, a library faculty member calling in the experts and learning the art and science of beekeeping, and a building manager catching it all on film, while the bees busily buzz by beeing bees.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in bees and beekeeping, be sure to LIKE the University of Utah Beekeeper\u2019s Association<\/a> on Facebook where they will let you know about upcoming events including when they install new hives or inspect existing ones!\u00a0\u00a0 And be sure to check out the hives on the north side of HSEB \u2013 from the bridge between Eccles Health Sciences Library [EHSL] and HSEB, from the walkway between the two buildings, from the big south-facing picture window on the upper level of EHSL, or from windows on the north side of HSEB Alumni Hall.<\/p>\n

– Written by:<\/em> Joan<\/span> M. Gregory, Librarian and Associate Director for Resources and Facilities<\/i><\/p>\n

Watch as we check the hives<\/a><\/strong> (YouTube video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the unexpected that is the most interesting in life, don\u2019t you think?\u00a0\u00a0 Monday morning \u2026 making your way through email \u2026 the phone rings \u2026 there\u2019s a bee swarm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4897,152],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facilities","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 02:56:38","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4344,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}