🐝 6:30 – 7 Meet & Greet – find a mentor, etc.
🐝 7:00 Main Presentation (Harry & Emily): Will & Trust: Bees & Estate planning; Apimondia Recap
🐝 ~ 8:00 Break
🐝 ~8:15 – The Good, Bad and Ugly and open forum to address any questions
🐝 6:30 – 7 Meet & Greet – find a mentor, etc.
🐝 7:00 Main Presentation (Joe): Fall/Winter Preparation (downsizing, winter honey stores)
🐝 ~ 8:00 Break
🐝 ~8:15 – The Good, Bad and Ugly and open forum to address any questions
🐝 6:30 – 7 Meet & Greet – find a mentor, etc.
🐝 7:00 Main Presentation (Peter & Harry): Hive Pests: Varroa, SHB, Wasps, Ants / IPM. Harry: Getting Rid of Yellow Jackets
🐝 ~ 8:00 Break
🐝 ~8:15 – The Good, Bad and Ugly and open forum to address any questions
🐝 6:30 – 7 Meet & Greet – find a mentor, etc.
🐝 7:00 Main Presentation (Emily and/or Amanda): Swarm Survival Rates & How to Re-Queen a hive
🐝 ~ 8:00 Break
🐝 ~8:15 – The Good, Bad and Ugly and open forum to address any questions
Join Emily Bondor at Cabrillo College for a one-day intensive workshop on the basics of keeping bees. Lecture + Hive Dive.
🐝 6:30 – 7 Meet & Greet – find a mentor, etc.
🐝 7:00 Main Presentation(Bodo & Dinah): Bee Medicine, Steiner and alternative hive design AND Top Bar Hives
🐝 ~ 8:00 Break
🐝 ~8:15 – The Good, Bad and Ugly and open forum to address any questions
🐝 6:30 – 7 Meet & Greet – find a mentor, etc.
🐝 7:00 Main Presentation (Emily, Aidan & Karla): Local Bees/Queen Rearing/Current issues in queen & drone fertility
🐝 ~ 8:00 Break
🐝 ~8:15 – The Good, Bad and Ugly and open forum to address any questions
Do you consider yourself an intermediate to advanced beekeeper, and want to try your hand at raising queen bees? In the morning portion of this class we will cover different methods and techniques for raising queen bees, including methods to split a hive, breeding programs, and an intro to grafting. In the afternoon we will head up to the hives at the Cabrillo Horticulture Center for a demonstration of basic grafting.
Beekeepers will leave with a more intimate knowledge of queen bee biology and development, and information about techniques to harvest and incubate queen cells.
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