Ewen – Ontonagon County Michigan State University MSU Extension and Les McBean, owner of White Birch Apiary in Bruce Crossing, will offer a Beginning Beekeeping workshop on Saturday, March 14 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Ewen-Trout School, 144 Airport Road in Ewen.
The focus of the workshop will be on a year in the life of a beekeeper and will cover what equipment is needed to get started, kinds of equipment easily made at home, inspecting your colonies and how to recognize a queen-right colony, a laying worker or queenless colony.
Also covered will be the different races of bees, types of queens, requeening, building bear fences, making splits divides, the latest in beekeeping news, new treatments for mites, emergency feeding-what to use and how, spring medications, spring inspection of over wintered hives, making comb honey and how to get started with a package in cold weather.
Registration deadline is Thursday, March 12. Contact the Ontonagon County MSU Extension office at 884-4386 or email msue66@msue.edu.
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