Saturday:
09:30 Start – 16:30ish
Lunch & Afternoon tea provided.
We also provide teas, real coffee, water and other beverages.
Introduction to Beekeeping (Part 1)
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- History
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- Queens, Workers and Drones
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- Stings, venom and EpiPens
Hives & equipment (Part 2)
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- Traditional hives
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- Modern hives
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- Alternative hives
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Hands on with beehives & accessories
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- Langstroth
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- Flow hive
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- Long Lang
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- Kenyan Top hive
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- Warre
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- Smokers/hive tools/frame grips/ SHB traps
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12:30 – 13:00
Lunch (lunch is provided)
Identifying Bee Types (Part 3)
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- Bee strains
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- Italian/Carniolan/Caucasian
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- More detail about Queens, Workers and Drones
15:00 – 15:20
Afternoon tea/coffee/biscuits
Life cycle & Development (Part 4)
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- Queen Development
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- Nutrition
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- Pheromones
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- Communication
Biosecurity (Part 5)
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- The dry stuff
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- Disease & management
Inspecting & Handling Bees (Part 6)
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- How often?
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- Smoking the Bees
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- Opening the Hive
Swarming (Part 7)
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- Why/When/What
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- Prevention
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- Collection/catching
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- Hiving the Swarm
Honey (Part 8)
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- Harvesting
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- Extractors
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- Flow Hives
Winter is coming (Part 9)
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- Packing down
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- Final inspection
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- Feeding
Sunday:
10:30am Start
Hive opening and inspection will run 1-2 hours or longer if required.
At the end of the session you will be able to:
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- Open a hive
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- Inspect frames
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- Identify:
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- Eggs, open & capped brood
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- Workers & Drones
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- Pollen & Bee bread
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- Nectar & Honey
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- Identify:
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- Find the Queen! (If super observant)
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- Mark the Queen (when possible)
- Tell me more
- Where is the course held?
- Can you provide more details about the schedule and duration of the beekeeping course?
- Are there any prerequisites or prior knowledge required to participate in the beekeeping course?
- Are there any materials or equipment that participants need to bring for the course?
- Sign me up!
