This week Dr Sophie Evison has been visiting Silwood and providing training on honeybee grafting. This is where we carefully collect bee eggs and transfer them to sterile plates so we can raise them by hand and explore their health and development. Sophie is vastly experienced in this and crucially, is very patient! We will soon have well over a thousand eggs grafted and with several measurements been taken to explore health we are very excited to see what we discover! Carlotta and Monika in particular are using this technique this summer for their Masters and PhD work respectively.
*Photo of Sophie Evison back in 2012 as a postdoc grafting some queens! –>
