ENVR061 - Bee Keeping: Intermediate Course

Course Description

In this advanced beekeeping course, you'll master techniques for the successful management of bee colonies. You'll learn about stock assessment and nutritional supplements, advanced colony manipulation, and swarm management. Explore queen production methods and breeding considerations, selecting for hygienic behavior and mite resistance, and handling external environmental stresses.

You'll understand the management of pests and pathogens, honey and pollination production, and marketing. Discover strategies for moving away from chemical dependency and consider the future of bees.

Course Outline

In this course, you will:

• Learn advanced techniques for managing bee colonies
• Conduct stock assessment and use nutritional supplements
• Practice advanced colony manipulation and swarm management
• Explore queen production methods and breeding considerations
• Select for hygienic behavior and mite resistance
• Address external environmental stresses to successful beekeeping
• Manage pests and pathogens effectively
• Focus on honey and pollination production and marketing
• Develop strategies to reduce chemical dependency and understand the future of bees

Learner Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the history of beekeeping and the structure of the honeybee colony
• Describe the physiology of the domestic honeybee
• Identify the roles within a bee colony and use beekeeping equipment
• Implement methods for honeybee nutrition and nectar and pollen production
• Manage swarming and apply control methods
• Utilize natural and integrated pest management techniques
• Conduct hive management for honey production
• Harvest and process hive products efficiently