Our Bee’s have arrived!

  Our bee’s have arrived – and seem to be settling in to life in the Southwell family household 🙂  I thought that this might be a good time to interview Kerry McCurdy.

“My bee story is quite brief really, My innovations and biggest successes have sort of happened to me rather than the reverse.
 
Thinking back in time to primary school age, my proud arrival home with a hard won cardboard box of bees was an early indicator. My old man being fatally allergic to even one sting was probably why my interests were not perused, I caught a feral kid goat as a pet after that which ate everyone’s flowers, instead  🙂

Now at 60+ years I manage colonies descended from wild swarms, allowing queens to naturally breed.
 
Bees like me and I like and respect them in return. My understanding of bee and colony behaviour is often far removed from normal expectations.
 
Bees are smarter than people, so I look to them for clues. Bees created bio diversity and remain the care takers of it, abuse one and we lose the other. A bee colony equals an animal which has the ability to learn the timing and quality of food sources for kilometres around itself, predict future weather conditions and carry enough emergency food on the wing to begin a new bee city.
 
Colonies understand animals, can smell fear, and see our hot breath and our soul. Bees know the people they live near and at times leave the area when their people leave.
 
Bees have fed and enriched our environment from before our creation, bees don’t need people, and people need bees.”