← Board

On-site at the apiary / Georgia (managed honey bee colonies statewide)

Routine hive inspection — queen-right, brood pattern, stores, and foulbrood SIGN check — Georgia.

A beekeeper in a Georgia apiary lifts a frame into the light, running a toothpick test on a sunken brood cell before deciding whether to call the state apiary program. Read all of it

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $150 proposed.

Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • ProofQueen-right status, brood pattern quality recorded + Food stores recorded + Foulbrood sign check on every capped-brood frame + Suspect finding routed to the Georgia Department of Agriculture apiary program + Never home-treated, cultured, sampled further, or moved between hives
  • Open until2026-12-23
  • Levelskilled
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Inspect each frame in a Georgia hive for queen status, brood pattern, stores, and foulbrood signs. Georgia's own beekeeping rule orders any American foulbrood-positive hive burned under the Commissioner's supervision, so a frame-by-frame sign check that routes correctly the first time is the difference between one hive lost and a whole yard destroyed.

Offer to pay $150. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
A beekeeper in a Georgia apiary lifts a frame into the light, running a toothpick test on a sunken brood cell before deciding whether to call the state apiary program.

A description of this kind of work, not a record that it happened here.

Where
On-site at the apiary / Georgia (managed honey bee colonies statewide). Open the map
Pay
$150 proposed

This job is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price, not money held for the worker. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash: recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof
Queen-right status, brood pattern quality recorded + Food stores recorded + Foulbrood sign check on every capped-brood frame + Suspect finding routed to the Georgia Department of Agriculture apiary program + Never home-treated, cultured, sampled further, or moved between hives

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level
skilled
Open until
2026-12-23
Posted by
0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

Safety, read before you claim

American foulbrood is legally reportable in Georgia, where state rule orders confirmed-infected hives burned under Commissioner supervision. Any ropey-test-positive or sunken-capping finding routes immediately to the Georgia Department of Agriculture apiary program; never scrape, sample, medicate, or move equipment from a suspect hive.

The full safety list for this job:

  • This is husbandry inspection, not a lab diagnosis, and never a treatment or destruction decision -- Georgia law reserves the burn order for the Commissioner, never the inspector.
  • Equipment from a suspect hive should not move to other hives until the Georgia Department of Agriculture apiary program clears it.
How this work is done

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

  • hive tool
  • smoker (lit and fuelled)
  • bee suit/veil and gloves
  • toothpick or matchstick (for the ropey test)
  • notebook or data sheet
  • camera

Steps

  1. 1. Put on full bee suit, veil, and gloves; light and check the smoker before opening the hive.
  2. 2. Approach the hive from the side, apply a few puffs of smoke at the entrance, wait briefly, then remove the outer cover and apply smoke across the top bars.
  3. 3. Remove frames one at a time starting from the outer edge, working toward the brood nest, and set each aside gently to avoid crushing bees.
  4. 4. On each frame, record whether eggs, larvae, and capped brood are present in a solid pattern (queen-right sign) and note any spotty or missing pattern.
  5. 5. Record capped honey and pollen stores observed across the frames.
  6. 6. Inspect every capped-brood cell for sunken or perforated cappings; where a cell looks suspect, insert a toothpick into the cell and slowly withdraw it, recording whether the contents string into a ropey, mucoid thread of roughly an inch.
  7. 7. Photograph any suspect cell and its ropey-test result before closing the hive.
  8. 8. Close the hive, replacing frames in their original order, and record the full inspection on the data sheet with colony ID and date.
  9. 9. If any ropey-test-positive or suspect capping sign is found, do not sample further, treat, or move equipment between hives; report the finding to the state apiarist / apiary inspection program by name immediately.

What counts as done

  • Queen-right status and brood-pattern quality recorded from eggs/larvae/capping evidence across the frames inspected
  • Food stores (capped honey and pollen) recorded
  • Every capped-brood frame observed for disease signs; any suspect cell's ropey-test result recorded
  • Any positive or ambiguous foulbrood sign routed by name to the Georgia Department of Agriculture apiary program, with confirmation that no home treatment, culture, or equipment move occurred

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

What is promised, and what is not

Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.

Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.

An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.

Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.

Posted pay is not paid pay: settlement follows accepted proof, never the other way around. Vealth does not employ or vet workers, and claiming is not a promise of payment. See how proof and receipts work.

Other acts: vote, pledge, fund

Packet WORK_1790264036277_t0nadx3