What are the responsibilities and job description for the Beekeeper position at Traveling Honey Bees, Inc.?
Crops/Commodities: Honey
Perform manual and mechanical duties related to commercial beekeeping and honey production. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones, and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. Make, paint, and clean boxes. Assemble hives using hand tools. Insert honeycombs into hive. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feed and medicate bees for diseases, parasites, and pests. Sterilize hive and burn diseased hive or bee colony. Run queen breeding yard. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Harvest and extract honey. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extract honey. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey, or other products of the hive. Perform mechanized extraction. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintain extraction equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Raise bees to pollinate crops. Induct wild swarming bees into prepared honeycomb frames. Place screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees. Set hive in orchard, clover field, or near other sources of nectar and pollen. Force bees from hive using smoke pot or carbolic acid-soaked pad.
Salary : $19