We've all heard the stories about sudden and serious reactions to bee stings, even in people who have been bee keeping for a while who've had stings with no previous life threatening response.  In this episode, we get to hear two first hand experiences of anaphylactic reaction to bee stings, and subsequent bee venom immununotherapy, from two Aussie women beekeepers - Jo McDonald and Kerry Caligiore.  

You'll unfortunately hear a few sound glitches in our second interview due to some connection issues, so apologies in advance! 

For more information on bee venom immunotherapy, please see below:

https://www.allergy.org.au/images/pcc/ASCIA_PCC_Allergen_Immunotherapy_FAQ_2020_.pdf

Anneliese Austin is a Phd Candidate, Southern Cross University and Research Assistant at Bees for Sustainable Livelihoods, and in this podcast we chat about her co-authored research article about Barriers to Women's Participation in Beekeeping in Papua New Guinea. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0005772X.2020.1818465?src=recsys

https://www.facebook.com/beesforsustainablelivelihoods

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 friend Meg's dear old dad, who passed away today. Always a twinkle in his eye - a lover of reading his paper in his garden, a garden that kept people and bees and cats happy for many, many years. 

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

This week, Jo speaks with Catherine Talbot of www.wedderburnhoney.com.au in Western Australia, who is also Education Manager at Bunbury Prison. Catherine helped Bunbury Prison to set up their apiary as part of their market garden program. We chat with Catherine about how she got started in beekeeping, her interesting range of honey products, and the process involved in setting up a social enterprise apiary - and the impact it has had on inmates there.  

Produced and presented by Dr Kathy Knox and Jo Derbyshire

Editing and Sound Engineering by Jo Derbyshire

In this episode, Kathy chats with Apiarist Dr Anna Carrucan,  owner of @Buukaar_Waaruung _apiary and @WheenBeefoundation Ambassador,  about how she came to be a beekeeper, her business development and the wonderful origins of the name Buukaar Waaruung. 

In the second part of our Queen Breeding extravaganza, Kathy has a chat to Corrine Jordan of The Bee Lady Apiaries -  www.honeybeelady.com -  and then goes for a fascinating walk around the apiary and insemination lab with Jo Read from NT Bees Aust. 

In this episide, Jo and Kathy chat with Dr Natalie Doran-Browne, a Queen Breeder who manages two related bee businesses, Wondermazing Honeybees (www.wondermazinghoneybees.com.au) and Bee Removals Victoria (www.beeremovals.com.au). Natalie runs the queen bee breeding program for the hives which includes bee selection, trait testing and the improvement of honeybee lines.  Natalie also works part time as a Research Scientist at the University of Melbourne.