Grade 7 students at St. Bonaventure's College celebrated World Bee Day on Saturday with a presentation from their very own hive near the school property in downtown St. John's.

A honeybee hive developed by researchers in Kitchener and Guelph will help protect bees from pests. It won a silver medal from the World Beekeeping Awards, handed out in Chile last month.

She hypothesized that, in the close proximity of hive life, bees would exchange bacteria, creating a common “microbiome” across the colony. She shipped frozen bee remains from her laboratory in St.