Bring Bee Resilient to your school.

Late morning through early afternoon on a mild, still day, once the bees have warmed up and are flying. Cold, wet or very windy mornings are quiet at the hive — good for a classroom lesson instead, saving the visit for better weather.

No. A notebook or clipboard is enough for most observations; a phone camera helps for anything worth a closer look later. For the hive itself, suits, veils and gloves are provided and a registered beekeeper is always present.

It's uncommon. Bees are calm when approached slowly and without sudden movement, and almost never sting unless they feel the hive itself is threatened. Anyone with a known bee-sting allergy should tell their teacher before a hive visit so the session can be planned around it.

Both. Large groups usually rotate through the hive in twos and threes while the rest of the class works on garden or classroom observations, so nobody is standing around waiting.

Log what you can see — colour, size, behaviour — and add a photo if you have one. A beekeeper or one of our science partners can help confirm anything uncertain; you don't need to identify the species yourself before recording it.

They go straight into Bee Resilient's own records — not a third-party platform — so your school can see its own data over time and we can track what's happening across the programme as more schools join.

Email us any time, or raise it at your school's next session with the Bee Resilient team.