Job Description:

• 1) Raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops: Assembles beehives, using handtools.

• 2) Arranges with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies.

• 3) Inserts honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into hive of prepared honeycomb frames.

• 4) Places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen.

• 5) Forces bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs.

• 6) Scrapes out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice.

• 7) Collects royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as health food.

• 8) Destroys superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming.

• 9) Destroys diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas.

• 10) Burns hive of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution.

• 11) Uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey.

• 12) Arranges with buyers for sale of honey.

• 13) May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer; Queen Producer.