Beekeeping Podcast Hyve Time™: Bee expert interviews and beekeeping news, tips, & discussions.

On today's episode, I sit down with Brian Spiesman, a community and landscape ecologist at the University of Kansas, who is broadly interested in how environmental change affects the diversity and function of ecological communities. He has a focus on understanding how land cover change affects communities of plants and their pollinators. The goal of his research is to wrangle knowledge of complex systems for the effective conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Brian also helped create the Bee Machine™, an application for identifying bumble bee species using machine learning. We discuss the Bee Machine and what it does, how it was developed, how it works, and the future of the application. We also discuss the relationship between habitat and the web of species that rely on each other for survival.

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I sit down with Emily Pedzinski, a YouTube™ beekeeper blazing her path in her beekeeping business. Emily joins to discuss her YouTube™ channel and how she is using Discord to help reach her audience and grow her beekeeping business as it evolves into different beekeeping strategies as well as how she hopes to grow her business.  

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Hyve Time™ Podcast Episode #17  We are back at it with this episode as I sit down with Dr. Heather Grab, an Entomologist from Cornell University in NY. We discuss many different topics, such as, habitat on farms and their interactions with local native bee populations and how honey bees may be competing for resources in limited habitat areas, as well as how honey bees as well as native bees interact with the hemp/ cannabis plant.   

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I sat down and interviewed Emily Bondor, owner and operator of Santa Cruz Bee Company where we discuss social media and growing your following as well as beekeeping education and mentoring. We touch on how Emily got started with beekeeping and why she has chosen to manage treatment-free. You can reach out to Emily and Santa Cruz Bee Company by following her and the company on:

I sit down with Dr. Kaira Wagoner who has discovered a new, simpler, and more effective way to detect honey bee colonies that express varroa hygienic behavior through the detection of unhealthy brood via odors produced by the brood. This discovery will help the industry with her new business detect and identify much more easily and with higher precision, which colonies may manage diseases and pests like the varroa mite extremely effectively.   Her process involves spraying compounds that have been synthetically processed to mimic the scents injured brood emit when attacked by mites and other pests and diseases. The hygienic colonies then open each cell up by chewing the capping off and within 2 hours you as a beekeeper will have an identifiable score for each colony.  

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