Bee School Course 6: Increasing Your Stock - Making Splits and NUCs

Bee School Course 6: Increasing Your Stock - Making Splits and NUCs

$50.00

 Bee School Course 6:
INCREASING YOUR STOCK - MAKING SPLITS AND NUCS

The ability to make splits and NUCS allows beekeepers to increase their hive numbers and/or have honey bees available to increase weak hive populations or replace dead hives. The following topics are addressed

  • The biology of making splits

  • Necessary equipment for making splits

  • Physical hive manipulation for splits

  • Post-Split management and maintenance

  • NUC size options

  • NUC Location

  • NUC ventilation, robbing protection, and swarm prevention

  • Installing NUCs

  • Over-Wintering NUCs

- ON-SITE CLASS -

CLASS DATES:
1 day: Saturday, May 24, 2025

CLASS MEETING TIMES:
Live class meets 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Bee veils are required as students will be opening hives for inspection and discussion.

CLASS LOCATION:
Held onsite at: Black Birch Farm Apiaries, 105 Georgetown Road, West Newbury, MA, 01985

COST: 1 Day Class - $50

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