Sophia site blogs.
Science Week 2020 School Workshops!
The SOPHia project is offering two online workshops for schools during Science Week 2020, as part of the Limerick Festival of Science. The SOPHia project […]
Sophia Blogs
Water is Life
PDF version coming soon Age group 3rd – 6th classTotal time: 1hr Outline: To learn about the importance of water, the water cycle and how […]
Sophia Hive 2 Painted
A wooden hive would not survive very long in the raw state, i.e. untreated wood, so chance select paints were chosen from remnants found in […]
Wooden Hive Assembly
After considerable delay the wooden hive (National configiration) finally arrived from Donegal Bees: First, the contents were unpacked. Was surprised to find that there were […]
Mothers and Babies are Well
I’m reliably informed that both mother queens and baby queens are doing well in both the Knockainey (Sophia) and Foxgrove (Rockbarton) sites. The new Sophia […]
Good Vibrations
PDF version coming soon Age group 3rd – 6th classTotal time: 30mins Outline: To learn about how sounds are made and how they travel through […]
Sophia Expansion Update
It has been two weeks since the Sophia colony was split to generate a spin-off swarm (artificial swarm). Recall that this entailed taking the original […]
The Power of the Sun
PDF version coming soon Age group 3rd – 6th classTotal time: 1hr – 1.5hrs Outline: To learn about solar energy and why renewable energies are […]
Hive Splitting
Because of Covid 19 related delays in delivery of a completely new and robust Beehivemonitoring system, it was decided that the old sensor system – […]
Swarm Catcher
Recently I bought a nucleation box to have just in case our colony decided to swarm. Unfortunately I forgot to order brood frames and foundation […]