A 23-week bee-keeping course from Westbury Art Centre’s resident bee-keeper, Mike Bensley.
Starting: 4 April from 7pm – 9pm.
Cost: £150
All students will be given hands on experience of handling bees.
Topics covered will include:
- Apiary hygiene
- Use of smoker (hive tool)
- Manipulation of bee colony
- What to look for: Workers, Queen, Drones, types of cells etc
- Sealed and unsealed honey
- Bee dances
- Diseases
- Swarm control
- Queen rearing
- Catching and hiving a swarm
- Taking a bee sample
- Making frames and hive parts
Further details are available from admin@westburyartscentre.co.uk
