May 31, 2021
Today, we invite Dr. Robert
E. Page, Jr. to the podcast to talk about his research on
honey bee genetics and his new book, The Art Of The Bee.
Shaping the environment from Landscapes to Societies.
Rob is an Emeritus professor at both Arizona State University and The University of California, Davis. He has published...
May 24, 2021
This is without doubt,
the most technologically advanced, commercially available, honey
bee hive monitoring system developed so far.
Mike James has a background in home automation and when he started keeping bees not all that long ago, a first thought was supporting his package bees with some insulation. And, to no...
May 17, 2021
In Part 4 of
our 5-part series on hive types other than the standard Langstroth,
we talk with Paul Longwell about the AZ Hive. Paul has been keeping
bees for quite a few years. He’s a Master Beekeeper and has bees in
Langstroth hives, top bar hives and has a shed with his AZ Hives.
AZ hives, if you’re not familiar...
May 10, 2021
In Part Three of our five-part
Hive Types Series, we talk with Colorado Master Beekeeper
and columnist Tina Sebestyen about the Long or Horizontal
Langstroth. Horizontal hives are very much like the traditional
Langstroth hives, which are vertical stacks of boxes,
except horizontal hives are only one box high and about...
May 3, 2021
We continue with our
five-part series on hive types other than the standard Langstroth,
with Christy Hemenway. Christy has been working with top bar hives
for just over 14 years now and has developed a good sense of how
they work.
She started out liking them because – It’s all about the wax – clean wax was...