May 30, 2022
Imagine responding to every emergency call into 911 about swarms in New York City - across all five boroughs, including Times Square! Well, imagine no more because, today’s guest, Darren Mays was the Official beekeeper for the New York City Police Department up until he retired.
Darren worked nights as a regular...
May 23, 2022
Can you imagine the difficulty in trying to work a standard Langstroth hive when sitting in a wheelchair? Or how about working bees while blind?
Can you imagine the difficulty in
trying to work a standard Langstroth hive when sitting in a
wheelchair? Or how about working bees while blind?These are just two of the handicaps that Justin Ruger is working on so that people with handicaps like these can work bees.
Justin is in a wheelchair so he knows what he’s...
May 16, 2022
In this replay from the Beekeeping Today Podcast Archive Super, we talk with Dr. Tom D. Seeley. We originally talked with Tom in 2019. Dr. Seeley is a Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University where he teaches courses on animal behavior, specializing in understanding the social life of honey bees....
May 9, 2022
Drs. Michael
Simone-Finstrom and Dr. Frank Rinkevich, are research entomologists
at the Baton Rouge Honey Bee Research Laboratory in Baton Rouge,
LA. They have completed an extensive set of tests in commercial
beekeeping operations on mite resistance, overwintering, honey
production and virus loads of the varroa...
Drs. Michael
Simone-Finstrom and Dr. Frank Rinkevich, are research entomologists
at the Baton Rouge Honey Bee Research Laboratory in Baton Rouge,
LA. They have completed an extensive set of tests in commercial
beekeeping operations on mite resistance, overwintering, honey
production and virus loads of the varroa...May 2, 2022
On today episode, we welcome Dr.
Jerry Bromenshenk ('retired' from the University of Montana) and
Rob Seccomb to talk with us about the Bee Health Guru app and the
new Commercial Beekeeper Course they are developing in partnership
with the SAVE Farm program in Kansas.