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“How To Keep Bees Like A Master”

David Burnswww.honeybeesonline.com

What Is The Next Level Of BeekeepingAdditional Knowledge, Skills & Experience

10,000 Hours To Master A Skill

-Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers

“Success is not a matter of mastering subtle,

sophisticated theory but rather of embracing

common sense with uncommon levels of

discipline and persistence.”

Patrick Lencioni

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Why Colonies Die??

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To Reach The Next Level

10,000 Hours of Beekeeping Would Help

You can keep bees for 20 years and still only be

a new beekeeper through simple repetition.

Perhaps the greatest difference between

deliberate practice and simple repetition is this:

feedback.

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1. You Better Know Your Bees

-How often are you in a hive?

-Spend 15 min. a day studying

about bees. -Mark Winston

-Spend 30 min. a week in a hive.

-Surround yourself with people

who are brilliant with bees.

Examples- observe nutrition,

read brood, avoid gaps, line up frames.

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“Precocious foragers completed far

fewer foraging trips in their life, and

had a higher risk of death in their

first flights. We constructed a

demographic model to explore how

this individual reaction of bees to

stress might impact colony

performance."

"In the model, when forager

death rates were chronically

elevated, an increasingly

younger forager force caused a

positive feedback that

dramatically accelerated

terminal population decline in

the colony."

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“This resulted in a breakdown in

the division of labor and loss of

the adult population, leaving only

brood, food, and few adults in the

hive.”

2. Overcome Your Weakest Areas

BeeTeam6 – Data Collection

Mite Sampling & Treatment

Keep Population Crazy Large

Finding & Evaluating Queen Performance

Ability To Read A Hive’s Health

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3. Add To Your Skill Set

Learn To Raise Your Own Queens

Learn To Make Splits

Work With A Large Commercial Operation

Ask To Shadow A Respected Beekeeper

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4. Be Inventive & Creative

Create a better way

Invent an item that will solve your problem and

help others….vibration

5. Mentor & Teach

Think of who inspired you.

Think of who you might inspire.

Teaching forces you to learn more.

Teaching improves the overall value of

knowledge.

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More This AfternoonHow To Raise Quality Queens

David BurnsLong Lane Honey Bee Farms

www.honeybeesonline.com