Swarms and Splits: A Workshop for Second Year Beekeepers
Description:
If you’ve gotten your beehive through its first winter in Colorado, congratulations! You’re about to have a second-year hive! With a second-year hive comes all new adventures in beekeeping, one of the most important of which is swarming. When a colony swarms, not only does a beekeeper lose their valuable, experienced queen, but other issues, such as a failure to produce a new queen or swarms moving into dangerous locations, can occur. It is in a beekeeper’s best interest to learn how to artificially create a swarm by doing a split to prevent their bees from becoming a community nuisance. It is also beneficial for new beekeepers to learn about swarm behavior and how they can get themselves free bees by becoming a swarm catcher. The workshop will start with a classroom lesson then move to Butterfly Pavilion’s on-site apiary for a demonstration of how to split a hive.
2027 Time and Date:
Saturday, March 27, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
