Overview
Interested in booking a session? Please connect with our course instructor Cahit Ozturk to craft your beekeeping experience by email (Cahit.Ozturk@asu.edu) or cell phone (480-434-9242).
Location
Honey Bee Research Lab
ASU Polytechnic Campus
6858 E Old Pecos Road
Mesa, AZ 85212
Private beekeeping sessions are priced at $100 per hour.
About this course
Topics that can be covered are shown below:
Basic Beekeeping Class Topics:
- Introduction to Beekeeping.
- Hobby Beekeeping.
- Essential beekeeping instruction.
- Assembling hives and installing colonies.
- Introduction to protective gear.
- Proper techniques for handling bees.
- Introduction of a new queen to the colony.
- Colony Management.
- Monitoring hive health.
- Identifying and preventing common issues.
Intermediate Beekeeping Class Topics:
- Professional colony Management.
- Swarm prevention and management.
- Splitting colonies.
- Uniting colonies.
- Bee Health and Disease Control
- Recognizing signs of diseases.
- Implementing disease prevention strategies.
- Harvesting Hive Products(Honey, Pollen, Propolis, Royal Jelly, Beeswax, Bee venom, etc.
- Timing and techniques for honey extraction.
- Beekeeping equipment and their usage techniques
Advanced Hive Manipulations:
- Advanced apiary management.
- Pollination services.
- Queen Rearing.
- Understanding the role of the queen in the hive.
- Focus on specific types of beekeeping (e.g., organic beekeeping, urban beekeeping).
- Addressing challenges unique to each specialization.
- Implementing advanced techniques for hive manipulation.
- Bee Breeding and Genetics.
- Selective breeding for desirable traits.
- Business in Beekeeping.
Private beekeeping sessions are priced at $100 per hour.
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