with Tiffane Bates

Saturday, 27 April

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Please complete the Expression of Interest Form

Expression of Interest Form

Registration by invitation - once an EOI has been submitted

You are one of a small group of WAAS members lucky to be able to attend Tiffane Bates' Workshop exclusively designed for more advanced WAAS beekeepers.

Tiffane is the Apiary Manager at UWA and has many years of hands-on experience to share with you.

This is a one-day course from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and the cost is $189 per person.

Lunch, afternoon tea and refreshments are included.

The day will focus on the art of queen rearing and touch very lightly on the bigger picture that is queen breeding. 

Most of the day will be practical allowing you to practice one or two methods of queen rearing for small numbers of queens. 

We will cover and practice the tricks to successful cell production/grafting, including:

• preparing a source colony or ‘breeder’,
  

• setting up a host colony (focusing in particular on colony balance and nutrition),

• transferring larvae into the cell cups,
  

• checking cells,
  

• handling cells and of course making splits.