Queen Rearing 2 day Workshop

Places Strictly Limited

This workshop includes 2 days of instruction from expert beekeepers featuring Bruce White. Attendees will have the opportunity to handle live bees, and undertake a practical application of Queen Bee grafting. The 2 days will allow participants to graft a queen larva on day 1 and follow up on day 2 to see how well their grafts have taken, prepare a starter hive for cell rearing, graft a queen larva, raise the cells and make up a mating nucleus hive. This workshop is limited to 15 places, so book fast.

Details of What’s Included:

Day 1

Introductions
Biology
Life Cycles
Cell bars
Types of Queen cells
Preparing Queen right and Queenless cell
Starting and finishing colonies
preparing Swarthmore cell starting colonies
Grafting using different tools
Importance of Nutrition
Disease of honeybees and Engagement, including irradiated combs of American Foul Brood
Calendar of Operation

Day 2

Check grafting from day one
Breeding programs
Stock selection
Video on artificial insemination of Queens
Drone mother hive management
Prepare Nucleus colonies different designs
Package Bees
Mating apiaries
Banking Queens
Queen Candy
Introducing Queens, various methods
Catching, marking, clipping, caging Queens
Transporting queens and queen cells

Catering

Lunch, morning and afternoon tea/coffee for each day is included.

Your Safety is Our Priority

Specialised bee protective clothing is available for loan at the event. However, for your own safety you will need to wear a long sleeve shirt (lightweight if a hot day), long pants tucked into socks and covered shoes. Do not wear perfumes, scented lotions, shampoos etc. on the day as these annoy bees. Beehives in the apiary will be opened during the event if weather permits. If the weather is poor, beehives will be opened in a covered area available on site. You must read, understand and agree with our Working with Bees (Acknowledgement of Risk) document here.

When & Where

Start 8.30am Finish 4.30pm
Our Sutherland Apiary @ Illawarra Beekeepers Apiary, 98 Eton St Sutherland NSW 2232 (see directions here)

Workshop Fee

$350. Early Bird / ABA member Special. (you must be a current member of the NSW ABA and book your place, early bird pricing subject to your NSW ABA membership verification)

$399. Non-ABA members