LOCAL BEE KEEPER VISITS SCHOOL! – Scoil Bhríde Lann Léire

We were really lucky have a Eoghan Macgiolla Choda, a local bee keeper visit our school with 1000 bees!!!! We learned lots: for example – the honey bee is black and is very common in Ireland; it takes the pollen of 2,000,000 dandelions to make one jar of honey; there is only one queen bee in any colony; the queen bee is 50% larger than the other bees and lays about 1,000 eggs a day; the queen lives for 5-6 years; the other bees (drones) live for about 6 weeks. Eoin the bee keeper has 150 hives with 40,000 bees in each one. Here are some photos of the visit.

Derek holding the beekeeper’s suit and smoker

Looking at 1000 bees!

Trying to spot the queen bee

So interesting!

2nd class looking at the bees

1st class look for the queen bee

queen bee has been spoted

It was hard to spot the queen bee!

Robert & Keegan hold the bee suit and the smoker

Senior Infants studying the bees

Where us the queen?

Senior Infants fascinated with 1,000 bees in the display case

Eoghan telling us lots of interesting facts about the Irish honey be

Junior Infants

Ms. Keogh and her

Eoin tells us about how bees make honey

Taking turns to see the bees

2nd class

Junior Infants

Junior Infants

LOCAL BEE KEEPER VISITS SCHOOL!