Chester Lee attended The Pennsylvania State University to become a Master Gardner and later graduated college 3rd in his class. While in college, he volunteered for USDA Bee Research program and gained valuable experience monitoring native bees.

After college, he was assigned to Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York where his job was to sit in the field and catch bees to determine the amount of time that it took the bees to respond to the traps. From this data, they could determine the...