Intermediate Bee Keeping Workshop

July 6th

10am-3pm

Harper’s U-Pick Hillsborough, NB

*Lunch will be provided*

10am to noon: Queen rearing:
– Installing a bought mated queen and nucs with queens
– Fletcher will do raising your own queens from eggs or queen cells

Noon – 1pm: Lunch

1:00pm to 3:00pm: Mite Monitoring and Control
– Demonstration how to monitor your mites throughout the year
– Provide an overview of all the mite controls available to beekeepers now
– Demonstration of the oxalic acid vaporizer system for mites.

Instructors:

Fletcher and Mary Colpitts (New Brunswick Chief Apiary Inspector), George Wheatley (Doré Products owner and operator)

  The cost of the workshop is $20.

To register please send an email to [email protected] or call 506-721-5753.