The newest buzz at NC State is emanating from nearly 150,000 honeybees that now call Centennial Campus home.
On the day before Earth Day, a new community apiary with seven honeybee hives was inaugurated on Main Campus Drive between the Hunt Library and Lake Raleigh. Under the high noon sun, leaders from university offices and local businesses donned beekeeping jackets, veils and gloves to release the bees on campus.
“This has been a long time in the works to make this dream a reality,” said NC State alumna Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, founder and CEO of Bee Downtown. “It’s a really good day.”
Bee Downtown installed and will manage the NC State apiary, which is sponsored by Bandwidth, a communications technology company based on Centennial Campus.