Also called: Queen Rearer
Raises and sells queen honeybees to beekeepers, grafting larvae into queen cups and selecting colonies for gentleness and disease resistance.
Uses a tiny tool to move day-old larvae into queen cups, selects colonies for gentleness and disease resistance, and ships mated queens in small cages by mail.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
No formal education, about 0 years after high school. Learned through beekeeping experience and apprenticeship.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, Self-taught. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Growing about average. Steady.
Low risk for 10 years. Instrumental insemination tools help, but grafting larvae and raising queens is delicate seasonal handwork.
Classes: Biology, Agriscience (FFA), Genetics elective, Business or entrepreneurship.
Official data: O*NET occupation 45-2093.
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