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Rear queen bees
Level
4
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to rear queen bees.
Subfield
Agriculture
Domain
Apiculture
Status
Registered
Status date
21 August 2009
Date version published
21 August 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standard 25891 replaced unit
standard 20252.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0052
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Legislation includes but is not limited to – the Health and Safety in Employment Act
1992, and subsequent amendments.
2
Definition
In-house procedures – the verbal and written instructions to staff on procedures for
rearing queen bees, which must comply with legislative requirements.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Rear queen bees.
Performance criteria
1.1
The queen bee rearing programme is planned and recorded in accordance with
in-house procedures.
Range
1.2
Breeder queens are selected according to desired characteristics and in-house
procedures.
Range
1.3
plan includes but is not limited to requirements of – equipment,
beehives.
drone colour, worker uniformity, brood viability, freedom from
disease, worker temperament, honey production, absence of
swarm cells, anatomy of queen, behaviour of queen.
Cell raising hives are fed and manipulated, and larvae from breeder hives are
transferred into cell raising hives in accordance with in-house procedures.
Range
transfer by one of – grafting, non-grafting.
1.4
Nucleus, top or full depth hives are prepared and manipulated, and queen cells
transferred to hives in accordance with in-house procedures.
1.5
Reared queen bees are described in terms of the evaluation criteria for the
presence of desirable genetic characteristics.
Range
planned characteristics, unplanned characteristics.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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