Beekeeper
Employer
46655 Mc Cloud Rd
Myakka City, FL 34251
United States
Job description
Employees will keep healthy beehives. This will include feeding/treating them as needed. Assembling beehives. Insert honeycomb of bees into
beehives. Set hives in orchards, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Scrape out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and
removes vermin, such as birds and mice. Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division or colony by swarming. Will need to replace
queen bees and divide colonies when necessary and replace combs. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey with proper
tools/equipment. Will also help produce queen bees. There may be some heavy lifting when extracting the honey from the hives (approximately
40lbs). There is also constant bending over to work on the treatment/feeding of the bees. May be offered longer hours during warm months.
Will work outdoors in variable weather conditions. May be offered to work at night, weekends and holidays. The employer abides by California
Order No. 14-2001. Must wear protective gear such as veil, gloves and suit (provided by employer). Must also use bee smoker and other hive
tools to access the hive (provided by employer).
Special Requirements
Employee must know how to make queen bees. Employees should have some knowledge of how to use Forklift/Swinger to load and unload bees on flatbed trucks, however if not, employer will train. Employees will be working with our Forklift (Swinger) that is Farm
Equipment that is used to move the hives around, load, and unload from trucks.