Beekeeper
Employer
18 Honey Farm Lane
Petal, MS 39465
United States
Job description
Unloading trucks, grading hives, feeding hives, checking for disease and overall health, and moving the bees from winter locations; preparation for the spring including repairing bee boxes, lids, and pallets, sort/clean boxes and comb, remove dead colonies & other related duties; work outdoors, exposed to weather, hot or cold; no cell phone use during work hours; raise honey bees to produce honey and maintain colony health through supplements; find and cage queens, install queen cells; assemble bee hives, inserts honeycomb of bees into hives; force bees from hives; reaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey from honeycombs; transporting bee boxes from hives to extracting facility; making colony divisions; grafting queen cells; treat colonies for disease and parasites; minor daily and incidental upkeep to apiary, equipment, worksite, and colony boxes; driving flat bed truck to move bees and haul honey; graft larvae for raising queen bees, set up and maintain queen-cell starter and finisher colonies.
Special Requirements
See ADD C