Apr 21, 2020
Fifty years ago
today, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, there was a
celebration of the very first Earth Day, sponsored by then
Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who had organized the event as a
teach-in on campuses across the country. It was scheduled for the
weekend between spring break and finals week,...
Apr 17, 2020
Sit back and listen while Jeff and Kim talk with Kim Eierman, founder of EcoBeneficial, and the author of The Pollinator Victory Garden, How To Win The War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening.
If you’ve been thinking of starting some plantings for pollinators in your backyard, you couldn’t find a better...
Apr 10, 2020
Sue Cobey, Tim Lawrence
and Steve Sheppard join the podcast this week to discuss their new
three-part video series on how to develop an effective and
productive honey bee breeding program. Topics discussed in the
series include record keeping, drone population, selecting from a
large population of colonies, evaluating 
Apr 3, 2020
The world’s
largest hornet, The Asian Giant Hornet was discovered in
the State of Washington in the fall of 2019. Also known as the
Japanese Hornet, the Yak-Killer Hornet or the Giant Sparrow Bee,
this ground nesting giant is as big as your thumb, and just loves
eating honey bees. Honey bee larvae that is. It just...
Apr 1, 2020
In this bonus episode, Jeff and Kim talk about the just announced discovery of a new race of honey bees, uncovered in the Solomon Islands, Apis gigantica-nordquist, on the smallest uninhabited island, Vangunu.
Vangunu, the smallest, uninhabited speck of land in the Solomon Islands is the home to one of the largest rats...