
Archie is joined by Scott Herbert from Charlton Bee Company along with the Wetlands Apiary crew consisting of Bob Hickey, Carolyn Holmes, Roger Hill, Scott McKinley, Ron Boidi and Kenny Pearl

In the Bee Lab with Carolyn, Archie, Ron, Scott, and Bob.

The crew is catching and picking out "mature" drones and installing into a drone cage

Drones can be collected the day before insemination

Inserting a drone into a drone cage

A drone cage comprised of a queen excluder so that workers can go in and feed the drones






The queen's abdomen needs to be placed in the back of the tube

At first, the stinger needs to be pulled back


Prepping for instrumental insemination

