Rutgers Apiculture Club Maintains Bee Colonies
The student organization is current the caretakers of four beehives on Cook campus at Rutgers University.
Rutgers University is abuzz with a new student organization. Hive, The Apiculture Society at Rutgers, convened in April, and since that time has started and nurtured four beehives, the sweet and sticky spoils of which were recently harvested. Founder Chris Farina, 20, of Watchung, said he and a friend came up with the idea for the club after taking an apiculture class at Rutgers. Currently, the club has four hives on Cook campus, with each hive containing a colony of between 20,000 to 70,000 bees, Farina said. Farina said the boxes containing the hives were already on campus, but were abandoned. The club was able to use those existing structures by planting new colonies. Currently, the bees are not expected to make much more honey, and …
