Season 1 Episode 11:  About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Moving Honey Bees, part 2

We begin this podcast with the capture of a swarm, 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 talking about moving hives of bees, Ron has a neat trick to 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.

Ron describes a couple harrowing bee-moving incidents that involved truck malfunctions – brake failure on a steep hill and 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!

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