Kathleen Suddes will give an illustrated presentation on honeybees at the Nov. 1 Sunshine Coast Natural History Society meeting at the Sechelt Arts Centre, 7:30 p.m.
Suddes is the owner and operator of Roberts Creek Honey Co., and is a member of the BC Honey Producers Association. A certified bee master (2012) and certified BCHPA beginner beekeeping instructor (2019), she runs between 75 and 100 hives located on private farms and acreages from Langdale to Wilson Creek. She is a past president and currently on the executive of the Sunshine Coast Beekeepers Association.
Suddes will speak about honeybee biology, colony behaviour, local forage, old and new pressures and challenges.
“Honeybees are social insects and function as a super organism, with a single beehive supporting up to about 60,000 bees with a single queen,” the society said in a release.
“Bees are sophisticated, complex creatures with an evolutionary history that goes back at least 135 million years.”
Coffee and cookies will be served. Visitors welcomed.
