What are the responsibilities and job description for the Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch Animals position at Mello and Son's Apiaries?
Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of commercial beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. build, rebuild, paint, and clean boxes for beehives. add or removed boxes to and from beehives as necessary. Run queen breading yard and produce queen bees. manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with there natural cycle. Cap and handle combs. removed wax from honey. harvest honey from hives. Extract honey. workers must be familiar with hive tools and smoker. and all special protective clothing such as veils, gloves, and suits will be provided to the workers. workers will assist with refining wax and processing honey. prepare honey by filtration and/moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. General yard work around facilities. workers with drivers license may asked to drive workers from/To housing, worksite, and groceries store. Must not have honey, pollen, or bee related allergies.
Salary : $14