Bee Keeper / Apiarist (Commercial Scale) — Career Preview

Manage hundreds of hives for honey and pollination

Commercial beekeepers manage hundreds to thousands of honey bee colonies — producing honey, providing crop pollination services, raising queens, and running agricultural businesses that support food systems worldwide.

A day in the life

You load hives onto a flatbed at dawn, drive to an almond orchard for pollination placement, inspect colonies for queen health and mite levels, pull honey supers from a production yard, and return to the extraction facility to process the day's harvest. Your office is the field.

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