Jul 27, 2020
This week, guest co-host Kirsten
Traynor joins us with Madeleine Ostwald. Madeleine studies bees,
having worked with both honey bees and carpenter bees. When days
get hot, we seek out ways to cool off with water. Beekeepers (and
sometimes their neighbors) know that honey bees do the
same. As an undergraduate student in...
Jul 20, 2020
Dr. Sam Ramsey joins
us again to share what he has found from his most recent work on
Tropilaelaps mites in Thailand. He has been looking at the history
of this mite’s movement around the world, the biology and its life
cycle. Just as important he is exploring the differences and
the similarities of the Tropilaelaps...
Jul 13, 2020
This week, guest
co-host Kirsten Traynor chats with Adam Ingrao, Ph.D, founder of
Heroes to Hive. Heroes To Hives is a veterans training
program he started five years ago. They train veterans, especially
those suffering from PTSD, how to manage honey bee hives and get
started in beekeeping. Over 500 vets and family...
Jul 6, 2020
In this episode, we talk with James
Wilkes and Joseph Cazier from Appalachian State University, who spearheaded the
World Bee Count program just completed this spring. Bee Count is an
annual event that aims to identify pollinators around the world and
also measure pollinator health, dispersion and biodiversity. James
is...