This is a 60 credit NZQA course teaching you how to be an assistant queen rearer or to raise queens for your own use.
You will achieve New Zealand Certificate in Queen Bee Rearing (Level 4). Upon graduation of this course, you will be a confident, capable assistant queen rearer for commercial operations or as an independent queen rearer with a small number of beehives.
10 modules – from grafting through to breeder selection and to disease and pest control, and concluding with mating, caging and caring for queens.