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beekeeper
A professional who raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops. Respnsibilities include:
- Assembles beehives, using handtools.
- Arranges with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies.
- Inserts honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into hive of prepared honeycomb frames.
- Places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen.
- Forces bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs.
- Scrapes out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice.
- Collects royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as health food.
- Destroys superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming.
- Destroys diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas.
- Burns hive of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution.
- Uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey.
- Arranges with buyers for sale of honey.
- May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer; Queen Producer.
- Jenis Kata: noun
- Industri / Domain: Karier profesional
- Kategori: Jabatan pekerjaan
- Company: U.S. DOL
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(United States of America)