Class 01:
- Questions for new Beekeepers
- Why have Bees
- Pollination needs – small and large, Byproducts – honey, pollen, wax, propolis, meadTherapy – used for treatments for Lyme Disease and MPleasureEducation
- What is in a beekeeper’s tool bag
- Selecting The Right Tool for The Job
- Beekeeping Problems
- Picking your Equipment
- Langstroth – wood, styro-foam, plastic, Top bar, Horizontal, Warre, Mini Urban Beehive, AZ or Slovenian Beehive, Flow-Hive, Legal Inspection Grade Equipment
- Bee Identification
- Populating Your Equipment
- Package, Nucs, Mini System, Swarm, Removal, Baiting
- To Feed or Not to Feed – that is the question
- Types of feeders
- Spring feeding – nectar quality
- Summer build-up – nectar quality
- Preparations for winter – less to dehydrate
- Winter – crystalized sugars
Class 02:
- When to add Equipment or Move a Hive
- Adding Equipment: Standard Rule
- Mini Hive Rule
- Moving a Hive
- Preparing the hives
- The Move, Reorientation
- Frame Care & Plants
- Spacing
- Bonsai Tree and Your Frames
- What to look for and when to look
- Brood, Babies, Queens, Comb, Honey, Pollen, Robbing, Surrounding the hive, Visitors
Class 03:
- When you can Harvest
- By-Products, Honey, Bee Pollen, Beeswax, Royal jelly,
- Beehive Hygiene, Unique Hygiene, Unique Ecosystem
- Risk of Introducing Disease
- Incubator for Raising Bees
- Rist of Inducing Robbing
- Smoking Your Hive
- Alarm Pheromones
- Bee Stings
- When are Bees Calm
Class 04:
- Size / Dimensions
- Smaller less threatening colony for urban living.
- Importance of drones
- Frame spacing, hive placement
- Inspections to see eggs, larva with royal jelly, capped brood
- Learn how comb is made
Class 05:
- How to grow a colony (tricks to sugar feeding and protein)
- When to add a box
- Providing water (salt and fresh)
- Need for resources such as ingredients for propolis
- Learning the hive is rst a bee incubator not a honey store
- When to harvest frames
- How to harvest by placing cut comb into baggy, squish, pop holes with toothpick
- Maintaining a colony that can be free of varroa and disease
Class 06:
- Benefits of Locking System
- Defensive Behaviors
- 15 Ways to Start a Mini Urban Beehive (MUB)
- How a colony fails
- Understanding the MUB Processes
- What to Avoid
- MUB Support
Bonus Items!
- Beekeeping Guide
Open Facebook Group to students of this course:
Curious Mondo: Beginning Beekeeping
Time table:
6 hours
Level:
Basic / Intermediate / Advanced
Target market:
People interested in Beekeeping
Main objective:
Learn how to get started with urban beekeeping
Prerequisite:
None
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