It confirms that this person really knows beekeeping and continues to practice it. We keep a live bee display at the Ashland Nature Barn, nearby, and we often go into classrooms or nature centers like Ashland and the Delaware Agricultural Museum, in Dover, to talk with children about the bees. One of the most important Master Beekeeper services is to mentor new beekeepers, Caron says. Beekeepers are especially needed to partner with farmers in growing food, because bees play a key role in food production. To help farmers ensure that crops are properly pollinated, a number of commercial beekeepers in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania keep bees on wagons for ease in traveling from field to field when flowers are in bloom.
Migratory beekeepers are constantly on the go.
The Paynes are looking through the last hive when Doris points to an enlarged, hallowed out cell on the face of the beeswax comb. It's a supercedure cell. A supercedure cell is a virgin queen cell. And empty could mean that a new queen has emerged and is out getting mated. Unlike worker bees who live six weeks, the queen lives as long as two to three years laying a thousand or more eggs a day for much of the year.