March 12, 2022 | 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | KSU Field Station
30-minute lunch break included. | Please bring your own lunch.
Cost: $125 | Limited to 20 | Registration Portal
Presenter:
Michael Blackwell, operations manager, KSU Field Station
Michael Blackwell, operations manager, KSU Field Station
This will be a full-day hands-on workshop where participants will have the opportunity to work with a living honey bee colony. (Working with the living hive is not mandatory but suggested.) We will cover all the basics of honey bee hive management, including identifying the different components of a hive, demonstrations of evaluation techniques, and the manipulation of a live honey bee colony. We will discuss the biology of the honey bee and its importance to agriculture and sustainability.
Topics covered will include:
- Principles of Beekeeping
- The Biogeography of the Honey Bee
- Equipment and Hive Construction/How to Get Started
- Honey Bees as Pollinators and Agricultural Sustainability
- Honey Bee Physiology
- Nutrition of the Honey Bee
- Hive Social Structure
- Evaluation Techniques
- Pests & Predators of the Honey Bee
- Seasonal Hive Management/Swarm Management and Honey Production
- Honey Extraction Equipment
