LLHG 557 - Bee Keeping

Healthy, happy, easy-to-maintain honey bees not only reward their keepers with delicious honey, they provide a wonderful pollination service to neighborhood gardens. Learn how to select, house, and manage these beneficial insects as we look at hive components, costs, assembly, and location; use of a smoker; what to wear when working with bees; when to purchase bees; and from whom, how to install bees into the hive, and how to keep your bees healthy. Along the way we'll discuss bee anatomy and social structure, and provide you with a month-by-month schedule of beekeeping activities. During the final class, in April, we'll pick up bees from a local supplier and install them in the instructor's hive. Special fee covers the text 'Starting Right with Bees.'