{"id":178495,"date":"2021-12-10T07:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=178495"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:13:43","slug":"uconn-magazine-bee-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/12\/uconn-magazine-bee-good\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Bee Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raina Jain \u201924 (ENG)\u00a0was still in high school when she learned at a science fair lecture who the culprit behind much of the honeybee die-off she had been hearing about for years was. The varroa destructor is a tiny mite that attaches itself to, and feeds off, a honeybee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I decided to take it into my own hands and try to think of a tangible solution to that problem,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Jain reached out to the lecturer, the University of Maryland\u2019s Samuel Ramsay, and read every research paper on honeybees she could find. She built a prototype of a device that used a gel-like solution relying on a substance called thymol, a naturally occurring pesticide that, at low concentrations, doesn\u2019t hurt the bees, but destroys varroa mites. Her prototype failed \u2014but she was undeterred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have that gel with me today, because I sometimes just look at that and think, \u2018Raina, this whole experiment, this whole company, everything started from that first step,\u2019\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/10\/14\/bee-good\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Raina is different. She has the eye of the tiger, she has the thing you cannot teach, so you just try to support it&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":178496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866,1731,156,2387,2235,102,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2105,2168],"class_list":["post-178495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr","category-entrepreneurship","category-profile","category-sustainability","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:05:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178497,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178495\/revisions\/178497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/178496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178495"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=178495"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=178495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}