New UI Pollinatarium already abuzz with activity
By Julie Wurth
Tuesday May 19, 2009
Vanda Bidwell
Inside the Flight Deck at the University of Illinois Pollinatarium, UI entomology Professor Gene Robinson shows bees to Kay Grabow's fourth-grade class from Thomas Paine School in Urbana.
URBANA – On this beautiful spring day the place is buzzing with excitement.
Thousands of bees crawling over a hive will do that to a roomful of fourth-graders.
"Ooooh, ooooh," they gasp as University of Illinois entomology Professor Gene Robinson pulls out a tray of bees busy making honey.
"You have to stay calm, because if you go crazy, they'll go crazy, and they'll sting you," warns junior bee expert Kayla Sharp.
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