She Beek

22/10/2023

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-23/why-bees-swarm-and-what-you-should-do-if-you-find-one/102974434?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

Spring is the time of year when you're most likely to come across swarms of honey bees in seemingly random places. But beekeepers say swarms are nothing to fear and are part of the natural reproductive life cycle of honey bees.

03/01/2022

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/chemical-concerns-after-mass-bee-kill-20211206-p59f84.html

Geelong beekeeper John Edmonds used to take his bee hives up to the Sunraysia region on the Murray river every winter to help pollinate the almond farms.

29/10/2021

Australian Pollinator Week has a new theme song for 2021!
Make sure you check out this boppy tune by Amelie Ecology.
The theme song also has a fabulous video - a montage of images by some of the country’s most talented insect photographers, that takes you up close and personal with the most picturesque of pollinators.
Listen and watch at https://www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au/

15/07/2021

Dutch defenders: The queen bees helping to safeguard Australia’s honey bees
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-16/bee-imports-to-protect-against-varroa-mite/100289356

Special bees from Holland are being imported into Australia to fight a deadly pest that has ravaged bee colonies around the world.

26/06/2021

Bee venom immunotherapy? Is it for you? We talk to Jo and Kerry about anaphylactic reactions they experienced whilst beekeeping, and their subsequent experiences with bee venom immunotherapy.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/she-beek-podcast-for-about-women-in-australian-beekeeping/id1524223820?i=1000526921833

‎Show SHE BEEK - a podcast for and about women in Australian beekeeping., Ep Bee Venom Immunotherapy - is it for you? - Jun 25, 2021

19/06/2021

Coronial Inquest recommend Epipens be included in first aid kits for commercial apiarists. Do you carry an epipen?

Beekeeper death due to anaphylactic shock, inquest finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/coronial-beekeeper-death-due-to-anaphylaxsis-shock/100227134

A coroner details how a day of beekeeping with friends ended in tragedy for a South Hobart man who died after going into anaphylactic shock from being stung.

02/06/2021

🎉👏 Huge congratulations to PhD candidate Joanne Picknoll for releasing her first paper on her model called 'A New Approach to Inform Restoration and Management Decisions for Sustainable Apiculture'.

This proposed model of honey production predicts how changes to plant and hive decisions affect the resource supply, potential for bees to collect resources, consumption of resources by the colonies, and subsequently, the amount of honey that may be produced.

Read the paper here ➡️ https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/11/6109

29/05/2021

In this weeks podcast we chat with Anneliese Austin, about her research into barriers for women in beekeeping in Papua New Guinea. More info about the research below.

https://www.scu.edu.au/engage/news/latest-news/2019/png-bound-student-to-help-honeybees-deliver-sweet-income-for-poor-farmers.php

29/05/2021

In this podcast we chat with Phd candidate Anneliese Austin about research into barriers to women's participation in beekeeping in Papua New Guinea.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/she-beek-podcast-for-about-women-in-australian-beekeeping/id1524223820 =29298eae-d4b9-4ca2-96e0-18ce5741cbc9

‎Education · 2021

26/05/2021

Free Webinar Tonight !! Get in

DID SHE SAY FREE WEBMINAR?! ,

If you haven't heard already I am running a free online WEBMINAR!

And I decided to open another 20 spots!!!!!

I will be running a free seminar, on the subject following :
" bee your own boss, learn to make a better, smarter income. Sustainably and positively in beekeeping"
I will be introducing tips on how to begin and your own sideline business to build to a bigger full time business.

This seminar is free, and will be held online on Thursday 27th of May. At 8.30pm Sydney and Melbourne time.

To register your interest please follow the link below:
https://www.mademoisellebee.com/product-page/free-onlineseminar

22/05/2021

Peekaboo bee

20/05/2021

What an excellent initiative!

https://en.unesco.org/themes/biodiversity/women-for-bees

Women’s empowerment and biodiversity conservation Women for Bees is a state-of-the-art female beekeeping entrepreneurship programme launched by UNESCO and Guerlain. Implemented in UNESCO designated biosphere reserves around the world with the support of the French training centre, the Observatoire...

16/05/2021

Welcome to Season 2 of She Beek - a podcast for and about women in Australian beekeeping.

Welcome to Season 2 of the She Beek Podcast! It's been a while between drinks for Kathy and Jo, but now with Winter almost upon us and craziness of another season nearly behind us, time to catch up and see what's been happening and what's planned! Jo dedicates this EP to Graham Rogers, her oldest fr...

07/05/2021

Bee your own boss

DID SHE SAY FREE WEBMINAR?! ,

If you haven't heard already I am running a free online WEBMINAR!

We had 60 spots available and now only 20 available!!!

I will be running a free seminar, on the subject following :
" bee your own boss, learn to make a better, smarter income. Sustainably and positively in beekeeping"
I will be introducing tips on how to begin and your own sideline business to build to a bigger full time business.

This seminar is free, and will be held online on Thursday 27th of May. At 8.30pm Sydney and Melbourne time.

To register your interest please follow the link below:
https://www.mademoisellebee.com/product-page/free-onlineseminar

04/05/2021

Congrats Kit and team on securing this project. Did you catch She Beek’s interview with Kit ?? New eps coming soon ...

01/05/2021

SEMINAR,

In between Ebook, Women's retreat, and life in general I have decided to do something a bit different.

I will be running a free seminar, on the subject following :
" bee your own boss, learn to make a better, smarter income. Sustainably and positively in beekeeping"
I will be introducing tips on how to begin and your own sideline business to build to a bigger full time business.

This seminar is free, and will be held online on Thursday 27th of May. At 8.30pm Sydney and Melbourne time.

To register your interest please follow the link below:
https://www.mademoisellebee.com/product-page/free-onlineseminar

19/03/2021

You can participate in the UF/IFAS Master Beekeeper Program from anywhere in the world! It is open to anyone with access to a computer or mobile device with a reliable internet connection.

See the link below for more information.

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honey-bee/extension/events-and-activities/master-beekeeper-program/




Photo Credit: UF/IFAS Honey Bee Lab

15/03/2021

Learn what to plant to assist the survival of bees and pollinators in our city.

Register for a FREE webinar launch of the Powerful Pollinators: Western Melbourne Planting Guide
18 March 7-8pm

Booking link: https://bit.ly/3bQJEVo

29/01/2021

Busy women, and a busy time for beekeepers, but the next Ep is finally up! Better late than never...

https://anchor.fm/she-beek/episodes/AUSTRALIAN-BEES-IN-THE-BURBS-epl2ud

SUMMER 20/21- ‘Australian Bees in the Burbs’ With special guest Kit “Bee Babette” Prendergast Native bee scientist, conservation biologist and zoologist PhD researcher (Curtin University) and Forrest Scholar LINKS: Kit’s ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-6099 twitter.com/BeeBabette

08/01/2021

09/12/2020

People have been using smoke to calm bees for thousands of years. There are early cave paintings of honey robbers holding smoldering plants, pots, and other such items. How does the smoker work? A colony gearing up for a defensive response produces alarm pheromone. Smoke may mask the alarm pheromone or occupy the bees’ sensory receptors, thus minimizing the defensive response. Some beekeepers may use pine straw, hay, or wood chips as a few options of smoker fuel sources. What fuel source do you prefer?


Photo Credits: Geena Hill, UF/IFAS Honey Bee Lab

29/11/2020

So, you want to be a beekeeper, In this interview we discuss the considerations you need to evaluate before you begin and the next steps.

28/11/2020

🐝 Bee on the lookout… 🐝

Our honey producing bees are under attack! The varroa mite is a tiny parasite that attaches itself to honey bees and honey bee brood, weakening the bees and potentially, wiping out entire colonies. 😢

🎧 Hear what all the buzz is about in our latest episode of Turf’n’Surf, which looks at the impact of varroa mites on the honey industry overseas and how we are working to eradicate varroa mites detected in Townsville.

Check it out here 👇
https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/news-media/podcasts/eradicating-varroa-mites-the-sweetest-success

25/11/2020

circa. 1622 - Image: First recorded shipment of honeybees to Virginia, America were brought in a vessel similar to this 17th century English merchantman ship.
Via: Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping History

Several skeps of bees were sent by the Virginia Company in London to the settlement in Virginia in December 1621. The image depicts a 17th century English merchantman ship of about 400 tons, similar what the Bona Nova and Hopewell would have looked like. One of these ships were believed to have brought the first honeybees to Virginia, America. Honeybee colonies at this time of the year would be dormant, increasing the chances of colony survival during the trip. The skeps of bees were either packed in crates or hogsheads (barrels) and stored below deck for shipment, where they would have stayed cool and in a dormant state throughout the trip..

Records from the Virginia Company in London indicate when bees were shipped to Virginia, America.

The following is a quote from:
Eva Crane, World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting, Pg. 359

“On 5 December 1621, the Council of the Virginia Company in London wrote to the Governor and Council in Virginia: ‘We have by this ship (from the context, either the Bona Nova or the Hopewell) and the Discovery sent you divers sorte of seed, and fruit trees, as also Pidgeons, connies (rabbits). Peacock maistives (mastiffs), and Beehives, as you shall by the Invoice perceive; the preservation and increase whereof we recommend unto you.’

At this period the voyage could take 6-8 weeks. The arrival of the hives, presumably early in 1622, is not recorded, but we have no reason to believe that they did not reach Virginia safely, because by May 1622 the Discovery, the Bona Nova and the Hopewell had delivered 20, 50 and 20 settlers.”

Source:
Eva Crane, World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting, Pg. 359

Image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Fathers