Apiculture

Practical things to do

1. Check a bee colony and note variations in the size and shape of a worker, drone and queen. Draw well labelled diagrams.
2. Note the workers performing different duties inside the colony and record what you have seen.
3. Check a brood frame containing brood and honey and differentiate between: sealed brood and sealed honey; sealed worker and drone brood if present. Draw a diagram of brood frame to show position of brood, honey and pollen.
4. Observe egg laying pattern of a good queen (eggs at the base of cell)
5. Follow a returning forager and observe its activities in side a colony in an observation hive.