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Date: June 8, 2024
Time: 9am - 4pm
Location: Bemis Honey Bee Farm
Lunch & Supplies Included
Join us for an educational hands on queen rearing experience. This class is taught by EAS Certified Master Beekeeper, Richard Underhill. The class includes lectures, hands on grafting, and time in the bee yard. Supplies include: one cell bar frame, plastic grafting tool, queen cups, and a queen rearing guide book.
This course will involve our discussing the following topics: Biology of the reproductive members of the bee colony: the queen and drones; Arrangement of bee yards for queen rearing; Drone Concentration Areas; Timing of queen development and beekeeper’s activities; Evaluating queens and stock improvement; Establishing the required nucleus hives.
The class will also practice grafting queens using the Doolittle Method.
Items you may want to bring: Headlamp and hand held magnifying glass (for seeing into the cells), notebook, pen, and safety gear for the bee yard.
No refunds or exchanges for cancellations made less than 7 days prior to the date of the class.
(If you have special dietary needs, please contact us a week before the class so that we may make adjustments.)
Date: June 8, 2024
Time: 9am - 4pm
Location: Bemis Honey Bee Farm
Lunch & Supplies Included
Join us for an educational hands on queen rearing experience. This class is taught by EAS Certified Master Beekeeper, Richard Underhill. The class includes lectures, hands on grafting, and time in the bee yard. Supplies include: one cell bar frame, plastic grafting tool, queen cups, and a queen rearing guide book.
This course will involve our discussing the following topics: Biology of the reproductive members of the bee colony: the queen and drones; Arrangement of bee yards for queen rearing; Drone Concentration Areas; Timing of queen development and beekeeper’s activities; Evaluating queens and stock improvement; Establishing the required nucleus hives.
The class will also practice grafting queens using the Doolittle Method.
Items you may want to bring: Headlamp and hand held magnifying glass (for seeing into the cells), notebook, pen, and safety gear for the bee yard.
No refunds or exchanges for cancellations made less than 7 days prior to the date of the class.
(If you have special dietary needs, please contact us a week before the class so that we may make adjustments.)
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