About Bees, Culture & Curiosity

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 …

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…

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 help…

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 rec…

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…

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…

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 …

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, man…

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 so…

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…

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…

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 g…

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)…

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 epis…

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 turn…

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. …

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 Sep…

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 the…

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 beekeep…

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 fr…