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Level 1 \u2013 Learning About Beekeeping Digital Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Beekeeping can be a lifetime hobby for lifelong learners. This manual, Learning About Beekeeping, introduces bees and beekeeping and is intended to prepare learners to set up their own hive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Level 2 \u2013 Working with Honey Bees Digital Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This manual, Working with Honey Bees, is for youth who have completed Level 1 and feel ready to start a beehive. Activities in this manual help youth as they acquire a colony and learn how to care for their beehive throughout the year. It also introduces basic beekeeping operations resulting in the production of extracted, chunk or cut comb honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Level 3 \u2013 Advanced Beekeeping Digital Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Level 3, Advanced Beekeeping is for a young beekeeper who is experienced and knowledgeable in the basic care of a beehive. This manual includes more detail on some things you have already learned and introduces more advanced beekeeping topics: increasing the number of your honey bee colonies, increasing honey production, producing special kinds of honey, managing disease and more about bee societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beekeeping Facilitator\u2019s Guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This facilitator\u2019s guide provides guidance and assistance for facilitating a beekeeping project. The curriculum is divided into three manuals with the supporting facilitator\u2019s guide. The 4-H Beekeeping curriculum is for youth who want to learn about bees and beekeeping. Beekeeping offers many hands-on, educational experiences, from learning about bees and nectar to raising bees and producing honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coming soon!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Coming soon!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Coming soon!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Illinois 4-H \u2013 Exploring Beekeeping Spark Activity: Leaping Pollen (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This activity shows how a charged balloon behaves like the charged bee body making pollen leap from a flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4-H Essay Contest \u2013 Foundation for the Preservation of Honeybees, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yakima County 4-H Entomology Project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Apiary Registration \u2013 Washington State Department of Agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n All beekeepers, backyard or for a business, need to register their hives each year. All money collected helps fund research projects with the Washington State University and other entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WSU Honey Bees + Pollinators Program<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n WSU\u2019s Honey Bee + Pollinators program is pioneering solutions to help save the bees and our global future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Washington State Beekeepers Association<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Beekeeping and Asian Giant Hornet \u2013 Washington State Department of Agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Honey Bee 4-H Project Book \u2013 Florida 4-H<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This book was designed to introduce you to one of the most social insects on the planet, the honey bee. Honey bees do more than make delicious honey for us to eat; so come discover for yourself! You don\u2019t have to be a beekeeper to participate. You just need to be curious about honey bees. Follow the \u201cBeeline\u201d through each section on your own or with the help of your leader. Some activities you can do by yourself, but most were made for you to participate with a group of friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4-H at Home: Pollinators \u2013 National 4-H, Colorado State University Extension (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wild Spartans: All About Honey Bees with Ana Heck \u2013 Michigan State University Extension 4-H (video)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources related to Varroa and Varroa associated diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michigan State University Extension Pollinator Champions Course<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Become a champion for pollinators. Pollinator Champions is a free, self-paced online course offered by Michigan State University. The course is packed full of videos, articles, and fun activities to guide you through the amazing world of pollinators and pollination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is Beekeeping Right for Me? Course \u2013 Michigan State University Extension<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you ever wondered if beekeeping is right for you? This online course provides an introduction to honey bees, covers the time required, physical demands, and financial resources of beekeeping, and suggests ways to help all pollinators.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWashington 4-H Records, Forms, and Guides<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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