A professional who raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops. Respnsibilities include:

• Assembles beehives, using handtools.
• Arranges with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies.
• Inserts honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into hive of prepared honeycomb frames.
• Places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen.
• Forces bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs.
• Scrapes out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice.
• Collects royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as health food.
• Destroys superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming.
• Destroys diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas.
• Burns hive of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution.
• Uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey.
• Arranges with buyers for sale of honey.
• May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer; Queen Producer.