Bee Amazed! — An Up-Close Adventure with Honey Bees

Richard and Melissa Kurtz frequently visit the Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum with their grandchildren and are excited to share their lifelong passion for honey bees as beekeepers and educators.

This interactive program gives children and families an up-close encounter with live honey bees in a safe observation hive. Discover how thousands of bees work together as a colony and learn about the important role honey bees and other pollinators play in our environment. Participants can handle beekeeping equipment, learn how beekeepers care for their colonies, and explore useful products from a healthy hive, including honey, beeswax, propolis, and pollen.

The program encourages children to appreciate the lives of honey bees and understand why bees and other pollinators are important to the world around us.

Included with museum admission.

Richard and Melissa Kurtz have been beekeepers for more than 40 years and have shared their love of honey bees through educational programs for people of all ages. Both are retired public-school science teachers and lifelong educators. They especially enjoy introducing children and families to life inside a honey bee colony and showing how these insects help support plants, animals, and people.