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Can Magnets Help Honey Bees Survive Winter? 05/02/2026

Can Magnets Help Honey Bees Survive Winter? Season 8 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Can Magnets Help Honey Bees Survive Winter? In this episode, we examine the unusual controversial question of whether electromagnetic fields affect honey bees. We begin with the broader idea that the bees' world is surrounded by weak natural and artificial electromagnetic signals. The discussion includes Schumann resonance (the low-frequency electromagnetic background of the Earth) and considers why some beekeepers insist that bees may are sensitive to such energy, and why I think they are badly misstaken. From there, the episode moves into bee orientation, magnetoreception, and the possibility that honey bees respond to magnetic fields in ways that are still poorly understood. A central focus is a 2026 publication about a magnetic-disc overwintering experiment, which claimed improved colony survival and resilience when hives were fitted with magnetic devices. The episode looks at that claim and what the study suggests, what it does not prove, and what weaknesses in design or statistics would need to be addressed before strong conclusions could be made. In other words, I think that magnets under hives may be a good idea, but I don't think this paper's results are not based on a good experimental design. Overall, I try to give my typical skeptical exploration of bees, electromagnetic environments, winter survival, and the difficulty of separating promising biological effects from experimental noise. Recorded in Calgary, May 2026 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/41127375

More than Packages 04/25/2026

More than Packages Season 8 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – More than Packages Bees can arrive in packages. Putting them into snow-covered hive boxes is exciting. We'll install packages and chat bees and more on this episode. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/41011835

Dandelion: The Bee Plant That Doesn’t Need Bees 04/18/2026

Dandelion: The Bee Plant That Doesn’t Need Bees Season 8 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Dandelion: The Bee Plant That Doesn’t Need Bees Dandelions show up early. In many places, they’re the first thing people notice in spring. Bright yellow, everywhere at once, and full of bees. It’s easy to assume they are the first and best food source for honey bees. They aren’t. Before dandelions bloom, bees are already working. Alders, maples, willows, elms, and even skunk cabbage come first. These plants provide much of the early pollen that gets colonies moving again after winter. Dandelions arrive a bit later, and by then, the colony is already expanding. Even then, dandelion pollen is not ideal food. It is abundant and easy to collect, but it lacks a complete balance of essential amino acids. Bees can use it, but they do better when it’s mixed with pollen from other plants. In a diverse landscape, that happens naturally. In a simple landscape, it matters more. There’s another twist. Dandelions don’t need bees at all. Recorded in Calgary during April 2026 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40921070

Apitherapy and the Joy of Bee Stings 03/30/2026

Apitherapy and the Joy of Bee Stings Season 8 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Apitherapy and the Joy of Bee Stings Happy World Apitherapy Day, March 30, marked on the birthday of the founder of apitherapy, Filip Terč. Oh, and I heard that it's also Ron Miksha's birthday. Recorded in Calgary during March 2026 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40672380

Spring 2026 Trailer and News Briefs 03/28/2026

Spring 2026 Trailer and News Briefs Season 8 Episode 0: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Spring 2026 Trailer and News Briefs Starting off Spring 2026 with a preview of the season ahead plus some chat about 12 recent bee news stories. From the United Kingdom, Bee brain model offers insights into next-gen AI. Social encapsulation of parasite eggs by honeybee colonies In Sweden, the trade association Beekeeping Entrepreneurs collected honey from Swedish grocery stores, sent samples to Estonia for analysis using new DNA method. From Spain: New traps at Palma Port aim to detect deadly invasive hornets before they spread across Mallorca From the NYTimes: A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup March 8, NYTimes: A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller Canada’s population declined by more than 100,000 people in 2025 Pascarella’s 2024 paper on bee diversity Wild populations of Apis mellifera have now been classified as endangered in the European Union following a recent reassessment for the IUCN Red List. Bees Kneez Apiaries: Beechina emergency-level bushfire destroyed 50 hives, kills about three million bees From CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation making butter. From Taipei Times, Beehive tech could help boost fruit production USDA American beekeeping statistics 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40650030

March is Orange Blossom Month 03/23/2026

March is Orange Blossom Month Season 7 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – March is Orange Blossom Month Orange Groves, Honey Bees, and a Vanishing Industry Orange blossom honey begins in the groves—but those groves are disappearing. In this episode, beekeeper and writer Ron Miksha explores the history, biology, and quiet decline of North America’s citrus landscape. From Florida’s once-million acres of orange trees to today’s shrinking groves, this is the story of bees, nectar, and a changing agricultural world. We begin with a simple question: why do oranges grow in groves, not orchards? From there, the episode moves into the ecology of citrus flowers—how they produce nectar, how bees detect scent compounds like linalool and geraniol, and how entire colonies mobilize during bloom. Along the way, we examine the numbers behind orange blossom honey production, including how a single acre can produce enormous nectar potential—but rarely does. We also look at the realities facing modern citrus: urban expansion, climate pressures, and the devastating effects of citrus greening disease spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. This episode blends personal experience, ecology, and history—from 1970s Florida bee yards to today’s fragmented groves. It’s a story about honey, yes—but also about landscape change, risk, and the uncertain future of beekeeping in citrus country. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in March 2026. orange blossom honey citrus groves Florida honey bees citrus pollination how orange blossom honey is made citrus bloom beekeeping 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40598425

Bee Poop, Yellow Rain, and the Bee Gut 03/08/2026

Bee Poop, Yellow Rain, and the Bee Gut Season 7 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bee Poop, Yellow Rain, and the Bee Gut Honey bees refuse to defecate inside their hive all winter—and when the first warm day arrives, thousands of bees take a sudden cleansing flight. In this episode, we explore one of the stranger realities of beekeeping: the honey bee digestive system and the dramatic spring event known as the cleansing flight. From my snowy backyard apiary in Calgary, Alberta, we begin with the subtle signs of early spring. The sun is higher, the hive entrance warms, and a few brave bees take flight—even when temperatures hover just above freezing. Honey bees spend the entire winter confined inside the hive, eating stored honey but refusing to defecate indoors. Instead, they store waste in their hindgut until a warm day finally arrives. When it does, thousands of bees launch into the air to relieve themselves in spectacular cleansing flights. Today, we'll explore the biology of the bee gut, why hive hygiene is critical to colony health, and what happens when digestion goes wrong through dysentery or Nosema infection. We even take a detour into Cold War history, when mysterious “Yellow Rain” falling over Southeast Asia was eventually linked to mass defecation flights of giant Asian honey bees. Yes, really. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in March 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40354020

February means Almonds 02/27/2026

February means Almonds Season 7 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – February means Almonds Most California almond pollination takes place in late February and earlier March. In this episode, we look at the world's largest mass migration of livestock and the problems honey bees encounter during pollination season. We also examine how almonds are pollinated (looking closely at the flowers) and why honey bees remain essential to get the job done. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in February 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40257900

The Apiary in a Box 02/22/2026

The Apiary in a Box Season 7 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Apiary in a Box I had a great chat with Herman van Reekum of and . BeeCube is what it sounds like, a cube of bees, an apiary in a box. We discuss the advantages of the BeeCube as well as new developments that Herman is involved in - a beekeeper's app (Bee the Bee) for recording and analyzing bee colony health and management, and also that aggrandizes current news and research in bees and beekeeping. Links for Herman Beekeeping Innovations: BeeCube: The Global Beekeeping Digest: Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in February 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40190700

Wintering at minus 50 in Singles!! 02/17/2026

Wintering at minus 50 in Singles!! Season 7 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Wintering at minus 50 in Singles!! Let's go way up north to the Yukon with beekeeper Etienne Tardif. He experiments with wintering - in single storey hives - through minus 50 temperatures. His secrets, which he is happy to talk about, include carbon dioxide control guided by sophisticated monitoring. If you don't know how important tight space and excess CO2 can be to success wintering, you need to listen to this podcast. Etienne's North of 60 Beekeeping: Hypoxia-Controlled Winter Metabolism in Honeybees Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in February 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40144620

Sylvia Plath, the Beekeeper's Poet 02/11/2026

Sylvia Plath, the Beekeeper's Poet Season 7 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Sylvia Plath, the Beekeeper's Poet Today's podcast is more about Bees and Culture, less about Beekeeping Curiosity. Today, February 11, is the anniversary of the death of a great poet, Sylvia Plath. The daughter of a bee scientist, Sylvia led a short life spent writing about love, loss, disappointment, and nature. Don't skip this episode. You will be surprised. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in February 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40079630

Organic Beekeeping on the Prairies 02/10/2026

Organic Beekeeping on the Prairies Season 7 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Organic Beekeeping on the Prairies Tracey Smith, Executive Director of , tells us about building up her beautiful Alberta honey farm, starting from two packages, and creating a sustainable farm and business over a ten-year period. Then, in three devastating years, viruses crashed all her colonies. We talk about how she built that bee farm, marketed the honey, and then moved on to research honey bees at the University of Alberta. Today, Tracey helps farmers (including beekeepers) produce organic food. She has quite a story to share! Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in February 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/40053450

Start the Year with New Bees! 02/04/2026

Start the Year with New Bees! Season 7 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Start the Year with New Bees! In this episode, Ron Miksha and his brother Joe McShaw discussed Joe's greenhouse business and beekeeping operations. They covered topics including making beeswax crayons, installing bee packages, and the challenges of wintering bees in northern climates. Joe shared his simple approach to beekeeping, which involves minimal intervention (just 5 trips to the beeyard!). Joe focuses on efficiency rather than detailed management. They also discussed the greenhouse business at Honeymoon Acres, including starting cuttings from around the world and preparing millions of plants for sale. The conversation touched on customer interactions (Joe asked if the customer is always right), the changing workforce, and the potential impact of automation and robots in the future. Ron wants a Robo-suit, Joe wants a full android robot! Joe’s greenhouse business: Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in February 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39999705

Arizona is Swarming 01/31/2026

Arizona is Swarming Season 7 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Arizona is Swarming It’s been a bit wetter than last year in Arizona and the bees are swarming. I know that because I chatted with my niece, Monica King, who is based just outside Tucson. We talk about swarming, some serious pesticide damage, swimming pools, and bee rescue work. Southern Arizona Beekeepers Association https://www.southernazbeekeepers.org/ Monica's YouTube channel Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39947730

What's Blooming in January? 01/28/2026

What's Blooming in January? Season 7 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – What's Blooming in January? What's Blooming in January? Not much. Unless you're in the deep south, west coast, or Hawaii. We look at these places and we look at how to feed bees in colder areas. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39905175

139 Ways your Bees Can Die 01/18/2026

139 Ways your Bees Can Die Season 7 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – 139 Ways your Bees Can Die Enjoy this quick overview of 139 honey bee pathogens and pests that should be keeping you awake at night. Have fun! Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39770795

Ten Bee Predictions for 2026 01/09/2026

Ten Bee Predictions for 2026 Season 7 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Ten bee predictions for 2026 Here we go. I might be wrong more than right, but it’s still worth a think. 1. I expect more bees declines, but not kept honey bees. 2. Honey bee colony numbers will surprise researchers. 3. Climate-driven phenological mismatches will dominate ecology news. 4. In the USA, lax rules will allow easier registration of agriculture chemicals, resulting in more pollinator deaths. 5. I predict pollinator restoration projects will be big. 6. I expect a new pathogen jump from honey bees to wild bees. 7. In 2026, I think that there will be bee stories regarding extreme weather. 8. I expect at least one article titled something like “Tiny robots are replacing bees as pollinators.” 9. Not a wild prediction, but I think bees will be less common on social media in 2026. 10. Robotic androids will not replace beekeepers in the field during 2026. In 2026, I don’t expect to see: Robots lighting smokers Robots reading brood patterns Robots making judgement calls about nectar flows, weather, and beekeeper intuition Or even Robots carrying deep honey supers to the truck Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39677420

2026 Short Trailer 01/08/2026

2026 Short Trailer Season 7 Episode 0: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – 2026 Short Trailer This trailer, our introduction to Season 7, sets the stage for season 7, the About Bees podcast's next 12 episodes. Our winter season. A great time to get caught up. Enjoy. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in January 2026. 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39654170

2025: Ten Bee News Stories 12/31/2025

2025: Ten Bee News Stories Season 6 Episode 12 About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – 2025: Ten Bee News Stories Links to our ten featured news stories from 2025: 62% Bee Losses Honey Bee Health Washington State study on colony losses USDA pinpoints reason for colony collapse Michigan State USDA study shows virus magnification via mites UBC Pheromone signalling reduced by viruses, leading to supercedure Developmental and Caste Regulation (weak queen resistance to pesticides) California Almond Growers PDF Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems – natural mix of pollens leads to better bee success Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees. Nature First continent-wide bee strategy (Canada and USA) plan to protect bees Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39574875

Bees or Greenhouses? 12/30/2025

Bees or Greenhouses? Season 6 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees or Greenhouses? Bees or Greenhouses? Which would make more money as a business? Ron chats with his brother Joe of , a Wisconsin greenhouse business. We engage in a race to the bottom. I make the case that beekeeping is definitely the less profitable business. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 2025. Ricky Nelson's Garden Party: 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39562045

A Langstroth Christmas 12/25/2025

A Langstroth Christmas Season 6 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Langstroth Christmas Let's look at the inventor of the modern North American beehive. It's Christmas and it's L.L. Langstroth's birthday. Hope you enjoy this! Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39532520

A Candid Chat with Alberta's (former) Agriculture Minister 12/13/2025

A Candid Chat with Alberta's (former) Agriculture Minister Season 6 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Candid Chat with Alberta's (former) Agriculture Minister In this episode, I enjoy a conversation with the Honorable Oneil Carlier, former Agriculture Minister of Alberta. Alberta is cowboys and ranching and enormous forests and wheat fields and wide-open spaces. Alberta, where I live, is also the biggest honey-producer in Canada. All of this is handled through the Agriculture Ministry which was directed by Oneil Carlier. We touch on Oneil’s experiences growing up in the cowboy town of Val Marie, Saskatchewan, working in geosciences, helping workers through collective bargaining, and enabling agriculture in Alberta. Mr. Carlier is candid about his life and his job as the Honorable Minister. Hope you enjoy this! Stompin’ Tom’s song Ian Tyson’s song Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39390590

Buzz Pollination in the Greenhouse 12/08/2025

Buzz Pollination in the Greenhouse Season 6 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Buzz Pollination in the Greenhouse I was looking around for something in bloom here in December to talk about on this podcast, but I didn’t feel like stepping outside into the deep snow and arctic temperatures. Then I realized that greenhouses are full of blooming plants – pollinated by bumble bees, mostly. So, that’s what we’re doing on this short episode. We talk about the risks and benefits of bumble bee pollination inside greenhouses. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39317415

What’s it like to run 6,000 hives of bees? 12/05/2025

What’s it like to run 6,000 hives of bees? Season 6 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – What’s it like to run 6,000 hives of bees? What is it like being responsible for 6,000 colonies, a couple dozen employees, and 150 apiary locations? And producing and selling over a million pounds of honey each year? Here’s your chance to find out. We visit with Murray Hannigan of Hannigan Honey. The operation is in Saskatchewan, eight hours north of the US border. Honey crops in his area are usually big but depend on keen management. We discuss queen production, disease control, and crew management. Murray tells us what works for him. Whooping crane music: Hannigan Honey: Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39292720

Is All Manuka Honey Fake? 11/30/2025

Is All Manuka Honey Fake? Season 6 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Is All Manuka Honey Fake? Is all manuka honey fake? I used to think that manuka is overrated. Not much there, there – if you know what I mean. Yes, of course I’m a cynic, or at least a skeptic. But follow along with this episode and see why I changed. It’s a path of discovery. We will cover the fraud fights, the discovery of manuka’s antibacterial qualities, how honey kills germs, and my conversion to an appreciation of this amazing honey. How does it work? What does it taste like? You’ll have to listen to find out. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/39207165

Philosopher-Beekeeper Richard Taylor 11/07/2025

Philosopher-Beekeeper Richard Taylor Season 6 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Philosopher-Beekeeper Richard Taylor Dr. Richard Taylor's 106th birthday memorial is this week. That's as good of an excuse as any to open up his best-selling book, The Joys of Beekeeping, and chat about his life as a commercial beekeeper and philosophy professor. We look at his life and explore his thoughts on being a better beekeeper and a better person. Enjoy! Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in November 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/38945800

Brother Joe: Bees & Greenhouses 11/04/2025

Brother Joe: Bees & Greenhouses Season 6 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Brother Joe: Bees & Greenhouses Joe and I talk about neonicotinoids (and other poisons), problems with wax worms, the greenhouse business, our oldest brother, David, and innovations, a BrainPopping drink, politics, economics, and "Why be good?" Hope you enjoy this episode. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 2025. Honeymoon Acres: BrainPop - New Age Drinks: 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/38903395

A Halloween Shorty 10/31/2025

A Halloween Shorty Season 6 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Halloween Shorty Do you celebrate Halloween? Beekeepers should. Listen to find out why. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/38857955

Down in October 10/29/2025

Down in October Season 6 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Down in October It's October and things are shutting down here in North America - at least the part of North America that's north of Mexico. Just before it all ends, there are a few final bursts of flowers to treat pollinators of all shapes and sizes. Today, we talk about Asters, the stars of fall, and Brazilian Pepperbush and Melaleuca, the intruders of Florida's deep south. All three of these plants give a little end-of-season honey and support before winter to your bees and to wild pollinators. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/38827430

Apimondia 2025 10/23/2025

Apimondia 2025 Season 6 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Apimondia 2025 Ron is back from Apimondia Scandinavia 2025. If you missed this world bee event, listen up as we walk through the Global Honey Bar, hundreds of posters, the mega-exhibition hall, and the heart of the conference - the presentations. This is not an exhaustive review, but this overview will give you a sense for the dizzying amount of bee knowledge on display in Copenhagen at Apimondia 2025. Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 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: miksha@gmail.com /episode/index/show/2359aaf8-9c48-4b40-862a-b1db77050911/id/38763250

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