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Queen rearing workshop

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This is a comprehensive hands on 2 day workshop - Saturday July 15 and Sunday July 16 2023

In the two days you will gain experience, skills, and techniques on queen rearing from Koty, a queen and Nuc producer raising queens weekly to supply  beekeepers. 

skills you will learn hands on 

  • setting up a cell builder 
  • grafting ( advise, tips, and techniques)
  • moving cells to a finisher
  • setting up mating nucs
  • handling queen cells
  • marking and caging queens

on the second day we will return to see how successful your grafts were from the previous day, and discuss breeding bees for improved genetic traits - followed by a second session of grafting. 

This workshop is suited for someone with 3 or more years of beekeeping experience .

This workshop will be held outdoors in Athens, just north of Lyndhurst and is weather dependent. If the weather is not promising the 2 day workshop will be rescheduled