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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