Behind the Veil
A show about a beekeeper trying to answer the questions: what’s killing bees and who’s doing something about it? Each episode of Behind the Veil tells the story of a researcher, entrepreneur, or enthusiast trying to preserve the world’s most important pollinator. Behind the Veil is hosted by Alfredo Salkeld and produced by Buddha Bee Apiary.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Ep. 9 - Inventing The Flow Hive with Cedar Anderson
Nearly 20 years ago, Cedar Anderson set out to design an easier way to get honey from his beehives. Together with his father, Stu, he invented the Flow Hive—a revolutionary hive that lets beekeepers …
Ep. 8 - Creating Virtual Reality for Bees with Gregory Lafon
What does it take to create a virtual world for bees that lets us study how they learn? Gregory Lafon is at the forefront of using this technique to study honey bee cognition. In this episode, he dis…
Ep. 7 - Watching Bees Sleep with Manuel Giannoni Guzman
Bees rely on their sense of time to navigate and find food. Is there a chance that pesticides alter this sense of time? Manuel Giannoni Guzman is a postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University. He …
Ep. 6 - Teaching Young Beekeepers with Kamal Bell
Kamal Bell left his full-time job as a teacher to turn a 12-acre piece of land into a profitable farm and honeybee apiary. The goal? Educate young farmers and increase access to fresh produce for min…
Ep. 5 - Tracking Murder Hornets with Cassie Cichorz
Cassie Cichorz is the Asian Giant Hornet outreach and education specialist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture. In this episode, she tells the story of how her team used tracking techno…