Season 4 Trailer
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Season 4 Trailer: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Season 4 Trailer A quick preview of Season 4! How will we treat for mites? Is spring honey any good in the north? (Ron doesn't think so.) And Bidzina muses about building a cabin where paying customers can enjoy the air exhausted by honey bee colonies. This episode was recorded in March, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and existential angst: [email protected]
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Arizona's Monica King
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Season 3 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Arizona's Monica King Our best podcast so far. We chat with Monica King, who rescues Africanized Honey Bees and teaches beekeepers in Tucson, Arizona. Monica's bee rescue web page: This episode was recorded in March, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and existential angst: [email protected]
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Spring feeding
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Season 3 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Spring feeding Before we look at spring feeding strategies in the northern part of the northern hemisphere, we take a detour through a few important news stories, including the effect tariffs might have on honey sent from Canada to the USA, Apimondia in Denmark, the death of Gene Hackman, and a trial chemical treatment that might help bees withstand pesticide poisoning. In our main theme, we critique a half dozen popular spring feeding methods. How does your favourite feeding technique stack up? Bonus link: ...
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Packages or Overwintered Colonies?
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Season 3 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Packages or Overwintered Colonies? We begin this episode – which is mostly about honey production using package bees – with a quick look at gloomy Denmark, where this year’s big international bee fest is being held. That, of course, leads us to a discussion about the wealth of nations (not to be confused with Adam Smith’s book), before finally circling back to packages of honey bees. What works better – packages or overwintered honey bee colonies? It depends on location, but we come out in favour of...
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The Bee Shop
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Season 3 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bee Shop We visit Robert McBane and his brilliant beautiful bee supply shop in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Discussion flows from helping new beekeepers choose the right equipment to the establishment of a large retail beekeeping supply company, with lots of stops in between. Worker and Hive: This episode was recorded in February, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and...
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The Bees are Still Dying
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Season 3 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees are Still Dying The bees are still dying. It's looking really bad for the survival of bees and beekeepers. This episode was recorded in February, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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The Bees are Dying Part 2
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Season 3 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees are Dying Part 2 The bees are dying. In part 2 of this 2-part podcast, we look at how devasting honey bees losses have been the during past year and we look at the enormous loss of wild (native) bee species. It's not good out there. This episode was recorded in February, 2025. Some links mentioned in this podcast: Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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The Bees are Dying - Part 1
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Season 3 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees are Dying Part 1 The bees are dying. In part 1 of this 2-part podcast, we look at how devasting honey bees losses have been the during past year and we look at the enormous loss of wild (native) bee species. It's not good out there. This episode was recorded in February, 2025. Some links mentioned in this podcast: Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Winter Bee News Roundup
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Season 3 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Winter Bee News Roundup This episode covers some recent papers and news, including the discovery of a new bees species in France, native bees used for crop pollination, a Tropilaelaps (Tropy) Mite invasion in Georgia (Europe), and a robot-bee designed to scatter pollen. As usual, we blunder far off topic and that might be the best part of today's podcast. This episode was recorded in January, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: ...
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Growing up on a Bee Farm
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Season 3 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Growing up on a Bee Farm We talk with Monica King, who captures wayward Africanized Honey Bees in Arizona, and her brother Ted Miksa, manager of a Florida queen-breeding outfit. They talk about being the children of pioneering commercial migratory beekeeping parents, Linda and David Miksa. We chat about migrating with the bees, keeping kids safe from bee-sting allergies, and learning the beekeeping trade. This episode was recorded in January, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your...
info_outlineSeason 3 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Spring feeding
Before we look at spring feeding strategies in the northern part of the northern hemisphere, we take a detour through a few important news stories, including the effect tariffs might have on honey sent from Canada to the USA, Apimondia in Denmark, the death of Gene Hackman, and a trial chemical treatment that might help bees withstand pesticide poisoning.
In our main theme, we critique a half dozen popular spring feeding methods. How does your favourite feeding technique stack up?
Bonus link: Apimondia 2025
This episode was recorded in March, 2025.
Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation.
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