About Bees, Culture & Curiosity
Bees of all sorts are the engines of agriculture and the glue of ecology. Join us as we explore everything About Bees, Culture, and Curiosity. Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast
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Philosophy of Bee Happiness
04/16/2025
Philosophy of Bee Happiness
Season 4 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Philosophy of Bee Happiness With Daniel Miksha, we try to unravel the philosophy of happiness. We barely touch on our intended theme (Can bees be happy?), but we lay some of the essential groundwork. This episode was recorded in April, 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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Season 4 Trailer
04/01/2025
Season 4 Trailer
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
04/01/2025
Arizona's Monica King
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
03/27/2025
Spring feeding
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: 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 angst: [email protected]
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Packages or Overwintered Colonies?
03/22/2025
Packages or Overwintered Colonies?
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 packages here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Find out why. Bonus link: 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 angst: [email protected]
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The Bee Shop
03/02/2025
The Bee Shop
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 angst: [email protected]
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The Bees are Still Dying
02/17/2025
The Bees are Still Dying
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
02/16/2025
The Bees are Dying Part 2
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
02/12/2025
The Bees are Dying - Part 1
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
02/03/2025
Winter Bee News Roundup
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: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Growing up on a Bee Farm
01/27/2025
Growing up on a Bee Farm
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 adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Winter Beekeeping in Alberta
01/19/2025
Winter Beekeeping in Alberta
Season 3 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Winter Beekeeping in Alberta Ah, winter in the near-Arctic! It's amazing that honey bees can survive here in Alberta, Canada, but they sometimes do. In this episode, we look at some tips and tricks that cold-climate beekeepers should know. Warm-climate beekeepers may pick up a few useful ideas, too. 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: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Waxing with Jessie
01/13/2025
Waxing with Jessie
Season 3 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Waxing with Jessie We meet Jessie Smulders at Worker and Hive to learn about beeswax, candles, wax crayons, food wraps, and lip balms. We cover it all - from the honey bee to the match stick. And yes, folks, we learn that size really does matter. Jess's website: Green Box Bees: Worker and Hive Bee Supplies:: 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: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Season 3: Trailer
01/06/2025
Season 3: Trailer
Season 3 Episode 0: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Season 3 Trailer The start of a new year and a new podcast season! We take a quick look at the episodes lined up for the year ahead - and we learn what some older beekeepers think of some newer beekeepers. 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: Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Starting the New Year Right!
01/02/2025
Starting the New Year Right!
Season 2 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Starting the New Year Right! We bring in the 2025 beekeeping year with Bill Rayment, an Alberta legend among beekeepers. Bill recounts getting started with bees (and some advice for all new beekeepers), then catches us up on some of his retirement projects: mentoring Calgary beekeepers, working with the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society's , supplying queen bees for Alberta beekeepers, and making brilliant specialized beekeeping equipment with his 3-D printer. This episode was recorded in December, 2024. 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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Bye bye '24
01/01/2025
Bye bye '24
Season 2 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bye Bye '24 Our penultimate 2024 episode involves two very big 2024 news stories (Murder Hornets and Importing USA packages into Canada) and a look at Real Deal Honey, Bidzina's label that sponsors Mixed Martial Arts fighters. Definitely an eclectic podcast episode. Enjoy! This episode was recorded in December, 2024. 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 Christmas Gift
12/25/2024
The Christmas Gift
Season 2 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Christmas Gift Thanks to Langstroth's Mom's Christmas gift to the world, we celebrate L.L. Langstroth in this special Christmas episode. Langstroth, born on Christmas Day in 1810, discovered bee space and invented a pragmatic hive with moveable frames. His story is froth with trials, lawsuits, rejection, and especially his profound suffering from a mental illness that gave little respite. But his story is also inspirational. Enjoy this and have a nice Christmas holiday season. This episode was recorded in December, 2024. 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 Shortest Day
12/23/2024
The Shortest Day
Season 2 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Shortest Day What do bees do on the shortest day of the year? We take a quick look at the state of affairs of bumble bees, after turning their blood into antifreeze and entering a suspended animation under the snow, and then honey bees, clustered up tightly in a snug bug ball, vibrating their detatched wing muscles. This episode was recorded in December, 2024. 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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Granulated Honey
12/17/2024
Granulated Honey
Season 2 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Granulated Honey This episode focuses on granulation, with special attention to four keys for prevention of crystallization in the comb. Some floral types (canola, manzanita, mesquite, cotton) can granulate before beekeepers have a chance to remove and extract the frames. We cover this, some ecology side-issues, and catch the sniffles and growls of a little white dog named Misty. This episode was recorded in September, 2024. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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About Bees Mailbox
12/09/2024
About Bees Mailbox
Season 2 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – About Bees Podcast We begin with a bit of talk about road trips and especially an eleven-hour drive that Ron was preparing to take in September to Val Marie, Saskatchewan, from Calgary, Alberta. Then, we open the mailbox to answer these questions: Can a hive of honey bees be too good for winter? Do I have to wrap hives with insolation for winter? What about beewashing? Beewashing is not my friend. Can honey cure tuberculosis, cancer, and hairloss? What are the logistics of cleaning up a bee spill off a truck on a highway? Why should I use chemicals if my bees will build resistance to mites and diseases if I leave them alone? Will it help my honey bees if I plant ten acres of flowers on my property? This episode was recorded in September, 2024. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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What would Plato do with Drones?
12/03/2024
What would Plato do with Drones?
Season 2 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – What would Plato do with Drones? Ah, yes. Our philosopher-contributor is back. Daniel Miksha shows us how Plato abuses bees by making them into an allegory for the ruthless (but ultimately justified) murder of unproductive members of society. After a brief detour into the early history of Greece and the nation of Georgia, we focus on Plato's Republic and the ancient Greek philosopher's five forms of government, of which (in Plato's mind), democracy is one of the worst. Why? Because of the drones, of course. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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HiveIQ: A Smart Hive from Australia
11/25/2024
HiveIQ: A Smart Hive from Australia
Season 2 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – HiveIQ: A Smart Hive from Australia In this episode, we welcome Victor Croker of Australia’s HiveIQ. Victor is a third-generation beekeeper (his grandmother started the business), with 1500 colonies. The bees motivated him and his partners to design a better hive. They wanted something to help honey bees survive Australia’s heat as well as the cold on other continents. The result is a modular hive of a smart and attractive design. Our conversation ranges from an overview of Australia’s honey sources, beekeeping history, native bees, and the arrival of Apis cerana to the health of honey bees and the creation of the HiveIQ beehive. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Saskatchewan Honey Crops & Westcoast Canadian Queen Rearing with Steve Clifford
11/24/2024
Saskatchewan Honey Crops & Westcoast Canadian Queen Rearing with Steve Clifford
Season 2 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Saskatchewan Honey Crops & Westcoast Canadian Queen Rearing with Steve Clifford Steve Clifford's lifetime among the bees has taken him from North Dakota bee inspector to managing 1800 colonies in Saskatchewan, at the edge of agriculture. He kept bees there for decades, producing two or three-hundred pound crop averages of beautiful white Canadian honey. He saw the transition away from package-beekeeping in Canada to nearly universal over-wintering in the far north. Recently, Steve has moved to the mild Canadian westcoast and set up a queen and nuc business. In this episode, we walk, step-by-step, through Steve's queen cell production system. We get a great view of honey production and queen breeding from a real expert! Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Bee Cube: An Apiary in a Box
11/14/2024
Bee Cube: An Apiary in a Box
Season 2 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – BeeCube: An Apiary in a Box with Herman van Reekum We discuss an unusual housing concept for honey bees. Our guest, Herman van Reekum, has designed a , which can house about 32 colonies of honey bees in standard Langstroth frames. The unit somewhat resembles bee houses used in but has technology and electronics similar to the developed in Israel. We discuss these types of honey bee houses and look at applications relevant to Canada. Herman's attractive BeeCube is almost entirely natural, recyclable wood and can be moved as a unit, making it possible to slide the cube, packed with over a million bees, on and off a 6-wheeled flatbed farmtruck or trailer. Electronic sensors add to the utility, allowing remote hive monitoring. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Bumble Bees 101 with Mathias Fenton
11/05/2024
Bumble Bees 101 with Mathias Fenton
Season 2 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bumble Bees 101 with Mathias Fenton We welcome biology instructor Mathias Fenton of Mount Royal University. He tells us about big bumbling bumble bees. Our chat touches on the relationship between wasps, ants, honey bees and bumble bees. Mathias mentions some of his interesting wild bee observations and we give a shoutout to , a great public resource that all naturalists, regardless their experience level, can appreciate and enjoy. In this episode, we focus on the bumble bee lifecycle and best places to position empty nest boxes. In the spring, these cool-weather insects start a nest with just a single queen. She mated the previous fall, then waited under snowdrifts for the new season. Then she begins with a search for a suitable nesting site. Mathias explains how the surveyed the nesting success of 400 empty wooden boxes placed in back yards by citizen-scientists. Success varied statistically depending on how far above ground the empty boxes were placed, direction of box entrances, colour of paint, and amount of sunlight hitting the bees' wooden homes. Anyone hoping to attract bumble bee pollinators by setting up backyard boxes will find Mathias Fenton's results interesting and helpful. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: About Ron Miksha: Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Chief Crowchild and the Bees
10/28/2024
Chief Crowchild and the Bees
Season 2 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Chief Crowchild and the Bees Chief Lee Crowchild of Tsuut'ina Nation is a member of a family designated as the Keepers of the Bees. He tells us of childhood summers spent sleeping in a tent that carried the symbol of the bee. But it was not until later in life that he tasted honey from a hive behind his house when he realized how deeply bees were embedded in his life. In this episode, we learn a bit about the culture of the Tsuut'ina people and the Chief's honey bee apiary that helped build respect for the bees and skills, knowledge, and self-esteem for people at Tsuut'ina. You will also hear about a bee-welcoming smudge ceremony that still fills Ron with wonder. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/540327/site About Ron Miksha: https://about-bees.org/about-ron/ Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Season 2: Trailer
10/21/2024
Season 2: Trailer
Season 2 Trailer: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Season 2 Season 2 of About Bees opens today! We look ahead at the next 12 episodes that has guests talking about 300-pound honey crops, helping bumble bees find a home, controlling granulation, beekeeping at Tsuu'tina Nation with Chief Crowchild, raising queen cells on Canada's westcoast, amazing BeeCube technology, and, of course Plato. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/540327/site About Ron Miksha: https://about-bees.org/about-ron/ Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Bees by the Number
10/14/2024
Bees by the Number
Season 1 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees by the Number In this episode, we manage to jump around the bee world by using the numbers 1, 2, 2-3, 26, 500, 20,000, 45,000, and 50,000. That’s a wealthy range of handsome numbers! One queen? Not always. What about zero queens plus laying workers? Or more than one queen? Did you know that some beekeepers quit running two-queen colonies because their hives made so much honey that they became impractical to add supers on top? We're talking 600 pounds per hive. Two words. Please folks, it is honey bee, not honeybee. Two words. Beehive, one word. Bee yard, two words. We explore why it’s important to use words correctly, including ‘robbing’ the bees and all the baggage that the word ‘robbing’ carries. Then we naturally start talking about witches. Why 2-3 and the numbers 26 and 500? And why those big numbers – 20,000, 45,000 and 50,000? You’ll have to listen to find out what those are about. Curious? Let's go! Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/540327/site About Ron Miksha: https://about-bees.org/about-ron/ Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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Moving Bees, part 2
10/07/2024
Moving Bees, part 2
Season 1 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Moving Bees 2 We begin this podcast with the capture of a swarm, with details described in real time. The subject of Hutterites, a Christian religious group, came up when similarities between Hutterite colonies and bee colonies 'splitting' was discussed. Since we are again talking about moving hives of bees this episode, Ron has a neat trick to help you pick up a single-storey colony (such as a swarm) and move it inside the trunk of a car or back of a van. Simple, fast, cheap, and the bees don’t get out and get lost. Later in the episode, Ron describes a couple of harrowing bee-moving incidents that involved truck malfunctions – brake failure on a steep mountain road and then an accelerator jamming on a busy toll road. Luckily, no one was hurt. We talk about the Tesla truck, which probably wouldn’t be much good for hauling bees, then Elon Musk, Twitter, and the future of the planet. We wrap up with an inside look at a large-scale commercial honey farm, Scandia Honey, and talk shop about the operation of 15,000 colonies of bees on the western Canadian prairies. So, let's go! Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We thrive on your adulation. Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/540327/site About Ron Miksha: https://about-bees.org/about-ron/ Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst:
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Moving Bees, part 1
09/30/2024
Moving Bees, part 1
Season 1 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Moving Bees, part 1 Part 1 of Moving Honey Bees. We look at the ways beekeepers have carted their hives on the backs of humans, donkeys, horse-drawn wagons, boats, flat-bed trucks, semi-rigs, and aircraft. We don’t neglect to acknowledge the inventors of the palletized migratory beekeeping system, the native bees who became displaced refugees, California almond growers, and a very special shoutout the President Eisenhower who promoted the amazing highway systems just so American beekeepers don’t get caught at a red light in Mayberry, North Carolina. It's a wide highway, so let's roll! Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/540327/site About Ron Miksha: https://about-bees.org/about-ron/ Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCCPodcast Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: [email protected]
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