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Beginner’s Course
May 13, 2017 @ 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
6 Making increase. Dealing with swarming.
Finding the Queen. Marking the Queen.
Making up a nucleus. Doing an artificial swarm (repeat)
Capturing a swarm. Hiving a swarm. The difference between the beekeeper intervening and the bees naturally swarming.
How to use different feeders. Doughnut feeder, contact feeder, rapid miller feeder. How to make up sugar syrup and mistakes to avoid when using feeders.