Lehigh Apiary

THEORY TO PRACTICE, ISSUE NO. 6, FALL '14
Lehigh bees
Honeybees are hard at work at Lehigh's new apiary

Honeybees have been hard at work on the Mountaintop campus, home to the College of Education.

A new apiary, alongside COE’s Organic Education Garden, has been helping to raise awareness among students, faculty and staff about honeybees and colony collapse disorder, a condition that has led to honeybees dying or disappearing by the tens of millions around the world at an estimated global economic cost of $5.7 billion annually.

Lehigh’s bees, while an educational tool on campus, also have been helping to pollinate the garden.