Single Brood Box Inspection & Varroa Treatment

Name: Single Brood Box Inspection & Varroa Treatment
Start: 2024-07-20T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-20T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Boulder Knoll Bee Yard, 875 Boulder Rd, Cheshire, CT 06410, USA

Schedule

Sat Jul 20 2024 at 09:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Boulder Knoll Bee Yard, 875 Boulder Rd, Cheshire, CT 06410, USA | Cheshire, CT

In this workshop we’ll do a varroa count, discuss treatment options, and perform a single brood box inspection. Conventional beekeeping in New England teaches that hives should have two brood chambers. In this workshop, we’ll go over the management of a single brood chamber. With single brood box management, the colony resides in a single deep or two mediums, which contain a laying queen and all her brood.
Led by Bill Hesbach, CBA President
Bill is an Eastern Apicultural Society Certified Master Beekeeper, graduate of the University of Montana's master beekeeping program, and president of the Connecticut Beekeepers Association. He teaches bee biology and various beekeeping methods, and appears as a guest speaker at local and regional beekeeping seminars. Bill has been published in Bee Culture, Bee Craft, and The American Bee Journal, and was presented the Distinguished Speaker Award at the 2019 EAS conference. Special interests include bee biology and flight, and the connection between local flora and bee behavior.