Category Archives: Ecology

Podcast: Bees by the Number

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Ron Miksha

Season 1 Episode 12:  About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees by the Number Check out our latest podcast! In this episode, we manage to jump around the bee world by using the numbers 1, 2, 2-3, 26, 500, … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Moving Honey Bees, part 2

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Ron Miksha

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 … Continue reading →

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Podcast: A Beekeeper’s Journey – Cameroon to Calgary

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Ron Miksha

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 community organizer and teacher in the … Continue reading →

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Podcast: America’s other weed

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Ron Miksha

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 from Europe about 300 years ago, farmers were once … Continue reading →

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Podcast: from Beyonce to bee forage and beyond

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Ron Miksha

Season 1 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Some Bee Buzz In today’s podcast episode, we jump from moving bees between Alberta and British Columbia to examining a recent paper about the ecology of disappearing bee species. … Continue reading →

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Bees flying high

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Ron Miksha

Almost every time I teach a beginning beekeeping course, a student or two comes forward to whisper: “If I move my bees to a patch of cannabis, will I get weedy honey?” I tell them that cannabis buds don’t secrete … Continue reading →

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The Native and Non-Native Bee Debate

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Ron Miksha

A few days ago, I sat down with the folks at Beekeeping Today Podcast to talk about how our non-native honey bees may affect native bees. Jeff Ott and Becky Masterman were informed, sympathetic interviewers. I had a great time … Continue reading →

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Support the Students

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Ron Miksha

I don’t usually ask readers to help (even with good causes), but you will feel great about this one. The University of Calgary, where I am looking at the interaction between honey bees and native bees, has a smart group … Continue reading →

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April 7: Day in the bees

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Ron Miksha

April 7. Our backyard hives are collecting real pollen! Last week, I showed you some fake pollen coming into the colonies. Nothing beats the real stuff. Although desperate honey bees will carry worthless sawdust as a pollen supplement, nothing inspires … Continue reading →

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EO Wilson, 92, has left the lab

Posted on December 30, 2021 by Ron Miksha

The entire Earth was Ed Wilson’s lab. When his death was announced on Monday, I knew that I wanted to write a few words words in his honour, but I also knew that this would be a difficult task. One … Continue reading →

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