Working Bees, Seasonal Husbandry & Harvesting

Duration: 5 hours

In order to maintain healthy hives, there a variety of maintenance tasks you must complete year-round. In this course, you'll learn about seasonal tasks, such as how to collect and process royal jelly, and pollen. You'll also learn about overwintering, including how to feed bees to avoid starvation using home made sugar syrup, how to use contact feeders or frame feeders, and how how often you will need to feed a colony. Discusses how and when to move to a swarm.

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