Mar 29, 2021
Meet Matt Mulica, Senior
Project Director of The Honey Bee Health Coalition
a group of more than 50 organizations who have come together to
implement solutions to achieve a healthy population of native and
managed pollinators. These include beekeepers, growers,
researchers, government agencies, agribusiness,...
Mar 22, 2021
John Miller is a commercial beekeeper based in
Gackle, North Dakota and New Castle, California. His family
has been keeping bees since 1894. Their season starts each spring
when John and his sons take their bees to the almond orchards in
Central California. In this episode, John gives us an update on the
2021 almond...
Mar 15, 2021
In this episode, we invite
Dan Conlon back to learn how the Russian Honey Bee Program is
progressing, since now is the time to consider trying packages,
nucs or queens for the coming season.
Arguably, Russians are the most tested breed of honey bee in the US due to the fact that the USDA Honey Bee Genetics Lab has had...
Mar 8, 2021
Today, we talk with Jessie and Bobby Louque, of Louque Agricultural Enterprises. Testing the interactions of pesticides and honey bees is what this company does on a daily basis. They have combined their passion for bees with their passion for science. They are what is called a Contract Research Organization, or CRO....
Mar 1, 2021
Our guest this week
is Boris Baer, Professor of Entomology at UC Riverside. Boris is
the recent recipient of a $900,000 grant from the University of
California’s Office of the President. He is the Principal
Investigator of a four-campus network of bee researchers and
engineers to boost dwindling honey bee populations...