New Zealand Certificate in Apiculture (Level 3)

Summary

Get into apiculture with a certification to show your skills, knowledge and ability to work safely and productively in a beekeeping environment.You will learn to maintain, manipulate and operate beehives to produce quality products and pollination services; assist transportation of beehives and products; establish hives in new sites and carry out beehive disease management plans.Topics that will be covered:Bees and their habitatBee ManipulationRequeening HoneyflowBee and Hive healthBee FeedingYou will be able to manage your own beehive, enter the apiculture industry or progress in your apiculture career with this qualification.This course is delivered online.Students will need to have access to at least a dozen working hives (that have been wintered) and be able to take and upload video evidence for assessment purposes.