As this is International Women's Week, I thought to dedicate a small article in celebrating the female guardians of bees. Especially important this month is March the 8th, International Women’s Day. In honor of this day, I would like to celebrate all women beekeepers and affiliates who are playing such an important part in saving …
Category: Personal Notes
Katkoot’s Personal Notes on bees and everything else bees. These are my personal opinions and thoughts, reflected through my own understanding and experience so far.
It’s been a while…
You must be wondering where I have been all this time, what I have been up to instead of right here, sharing my news with you. There has not been much buzz over this side of the screen other than, this: Cambrian Rally 2019 I have been travelling a little further than 3 miles from …
Inside the Enemy’s Lair
Two weeks ago, I received an email with an exciting invitation from another beekeeper. Mike, had been called out to a golf course to collect what the owners suspected was an Asian Hornet hive. The invitation was for me to join him in the dissection of the hive itself, so naturally I said yes! Ok, …
#022 Happy bee, happy me!
It seems like January is flying by, as though everything and everyone is running away from the end of 2018. Was it that bad? It's either that, or we are all chasing after the resolutions we (hastily?) made at the beginning of 2019. Perhaps a little bit of both, with a sprinkle of peer pressure. …
#020 Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all! I hope you have had a great holiday break with lots of love, food and of course presents! Not surprisingly, several of my presents were heavily bee-related which in turn instantly triggered my inner bee-chatter to be released upon those around me. (Sorry! not sorry...) The biggest gift of all …
the w i d e r picture
I recently realised the wider impact that beekeeping has to my life. I am extremely more aware of my surrounding environment, of the flowers (a lot of them used to just be called weeds), of the insects and the birds. I am more aware of what is sprouting from the ground and what my stomping …
#019 Curious Kat
My obsession with observing my hive has obviously started with the appearance of Deformed Wing Virus and with my anxiousness on whether this will detrimentally affect my hive over the winter. I now visit the hive every day, spend about 3 minutes completing the standard checks and then another 40 or so minutes just staring …
