Beekeeper Scout Interest Badge

Badge requirements

Keep bees for at least 12 months. Demonstrate hive management and the handling of bees.
Recognise the Queen, workers, and drones. Explain the life cycle.
Explain to the examiner the importance bees play in nature.
Demonstrate hive management and the handling of bees, including the use of a smoke machine.
Demonstrate and explain the protective clothing worn when tending bees.
Recognise the larva, good and foul broods, and sealed honey, and know at least one method of preventing a swarm.
Be able to take a swarm and know the principles of artificial feeding.
Demonstrate the harvesting of a honey.