Fig. 1: BeeKee-AH2-Front
- Cloth: Heavyweight tan right twill
- Embroidery: Silk continuous
- Border: Clockwise, round & dense
Fig. 2: BeeKee-AH2-Magnified
- Design: Large thorax, center groove in each wing, two 80 degree bends in legs, pointed bottom to wings, wide stitches at end of front legs
Fig. 3: BeeKee-AH2-Reverse
- Back: Brown imprint
Item Name: Bee Keeping 1914 - 1921
Item ID: BeeKee-AH2
Collector Rating: 1
Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge
Requirements March 1915 until August 1922
1. Know how to examine a colony of bees, remove the combs, find the queen, and determine the amount of the brood, number of queen cells, and the amount of honey in the hive.
2. Distinguish between the drones, workers, eggs, larvae, pupae, honey, wax, pollen, and propolis; tell how the bees make the honey, and where the wax comes from; and explain the part played in the life of the colony by the queen, the drones, and the workers.
3. Have had experience in hiving at least one swarm. Explain the construction of the modern hive, especially in regard to the “Bee Spaces.”
4. Put foundations in sections and fill supers with sections; and also remove filled supers from the hive and prepare the honey for market.
5. Write an acceptable article of not more than two hundred words on the differences in honeys according to the flowers from which the nectar is obtained.