About Bees, Culture & Curiosity

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, ha…

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 bumblin…

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 t…

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, hel…

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 …

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 Chris…

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,…

Season 1 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Honey Harvest Time

After a few minutes pondering how some carpenter ants in Florida choose the profession of surgeon (sawing off sick com…

Season 1 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Dogs That Smell

 We talk with Rose-Anne Bouffard, a bee enthusiast who trains dogs to find and rescue wayward bumblebee nests and to loca…

Season 1 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Cameroon to Canada - Patrick's Bee Journey

In this episode of About Bees, we are joined by Patrick Tefouet Tonlio, who was an agriculture…

Season 1 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Sweet Clover: America’s other weed

Legal. Illegal. Legal. Illegal again. Sweet clover has quite a history. Introduced into North America …

Season 1 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Some Bee Buzz

In this episode, we jump from moving bees from Alberta to British Columbia to examining a recent paper about the ecology of…

Season 1 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees’ Ears

In this episode, we discover that insects, including bees, can hear. They have three ways of picking up sound – through th…

Season 1 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Do Bees Feel Pain?

We often expect to be on the receiving end of pain - whether from a broken elbow or from the tail-end of a bee. But wh…

Season 1 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Tolstoy and the Robber Bees

Leo Tolstoy was a beekeeping fanatic. He even managed to work his bees into Anna Karenina, as well as War and…

Season 1 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Myths and Legends

What we think we know might not be true.

Did you know that Einstein once warned us that without bees, humans would go e…

The About Bees, Culture & Curiosity podcast explores the world of bees (and their entomological cousins) with ample attention to culture and the curiosities of the entire insect world. 

Bidzina Mosia…