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 …
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.
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 …
Video: Katkoot’s Beehive Stories
Dear readers, Thank you for following my adventure so far. I hope you enjoy this teaser of what is involved in my weekly inspections 🙂 Katkoot's Beehive Stories Yours, Katkoot
Overwintering bees
Overwintering has been a great concern for me over the past few weeks. This is where my path and other beekeepers' paths start to diverge a little. Actually, it is important to appreciate how little is known about bees and how difficult it is to find the right information on the internet or through libraries. …
“Why do you do it then?”
I played Badminton for a while, once a week, with friends - nothing competitive or serious. I am significantly worse than them, a true amateur really so I didn't take seriously but it was lots of fun and a nice social activity. They then decided it was more challenging and exciting for them to go …
