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Beekeeper
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 4
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 35
- Wage: 16.23 USD / Hour
- Start date: 03/31/2025
- End date: 12/15/2025
- Process date: 04/07/2025 09:34:25
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Employees will keep healthy beehives. This will include feeding/treating them as needed. Assembling beehives. Insert honeycomb of bees into beehives. Set hives in orchards, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Scrape out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice. Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division or colony by swarming. Will need to replace queen bees and divide colonies when necessary and replace combs. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey with proper tools/equipment. Will also help produce queen bees. There may be some heavy lifting when extracting the honey from the hives (approximately 40lbs). There is also constant bending over to work on the treatment/feeding of the bees. May be offered longer hours during warm months. Will work outdoors in variable weather conditions. May be offered to work at night, weekends and holidays. The employer abides by California Order No. 14-2001. Must wear protective gear such as veil, gloves and suit (provided by employer). Must also use bee smoker and other hive tools to access the hive (provided by employer).