Charles City FFA helps bring back the bees

Kevin Anderson, FFA advisor and ag instructor for Des Moines schools, helps McKenzie White with her gloves. Press photo by Bob Steenson

Each of these boxes holds a bee colony that will be transferred to one of the two new hives being set up by Charles City FFA students. Press photo by Bob Steenson

Kevin Anderson gets the hive ready to put the lid on after the new bees are introduced. Press photo by Bob Steenson

The bees are sprayed with sugar water to prepare them to be dumped into the new hive. Press photo by Bob Steenson

Hannah Baljeu and McKenzie White, in beekeeper protective gear, observe the preparation of the new hive. Press photo by Bob Steenson

Charles City FFA advisor and ag instructor Jim Lundberg takes a close-up video of the queen bee before she is inserted into the new hive. Press photo by Bob Steenson

Kevin Anderson gets the new hive ready before the bees are added. Press photo by Bob Steenson