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Podcast: Moving Honey Bees, part 2
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
Posted in Beekeeping, Commercial Beekeeping, Ecology, History, Podcasts
Tagged beekeeping, bees, honey, honey bees, migratory beekeeping, pollinators, Swarms
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Podcast: Honey Harvest Time
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 comrades wounded legs), Bidzina and Ron settle into … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Commercial Beekeeping, Hive Products, Honey, Podcasts, Tools and Gadgets
Tagged Alberta, beekeeping, bees, honey, honey bees, honeybees, Saskatchewan
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Podcast: Dogs that smell bees
Season 1 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Dogs That Smell Bees We talk to Rose-Anne Bouffard, a bee enthusiast who trains dogs to find and rescue wayward bumblebee nests and to locate colonies with American Foulbrood (AFB). … Continue reading
Posted in Bee Biology, Beekeeping, Commercial Beekeeping, Diseases and Pests, Friends, Podcasts
Tagged beekeeping, bees, honey bees
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Podcast: A Beekeeper’s Journey – Cameroon to Calgary
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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Tagged beekeeping, bees, Cameroon, hive equipment, honey, honey bees, honeybees
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Podcast: America’s other weed
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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Tagged Australia, beekeeping, Grasslands National Park, honey bees, Saskatchewan, Val Marie
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Podcast: from Beyonce to bee forage and beyond
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
Posted in Bee Biology, Culture, or lack thereof, Ecology, Native Bees, Personal, Podcasts, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged Alberta, beekeeping, Calgary, honey bees, Native Bees, urban beekeeping
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The heat is up
My badbeekeeping blog has largely avoided the topic of global climate change. It’s contentious. Some insist it’s happening; other insist that it ain’t. I have purposefully tried to limit my conversation on the topic because I didn’t want to alienate … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Climate, Culture, or lack thereof, Personal
Tagged beekeeping, Calgary, climate change, environment, Exxon, fossil-fuels, global-warming, New Year
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A Langstroth Christmas Story
I’ve been posting this piece nearly every Christmas for a while. If you’ve read it before, read it again. Or not. Christmas Day is L.L. Langstroth’s birthday. He’d be 214 years old, if he hadn’t been struck down in his … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Books, Culture, or lack thereof, History, Hives and Combs, People, Tools and Gadgets
Tagged beekeeping, Langstroth, The Hive and the Honey-Bee
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Kim Flottum: a life among the bees
Mid-70s is too young to pass over to the other side. But that was the fate for Kim Flottum, 76, who passed away Sunday, December 10, 2023, after a short battle with cancer. The bright and adventurous bee master, editor, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Friends, History, People, Podcasts
Tagged beekeeping, bees, honey bees, honeybees, Kim Flottum
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. . . it’s like calling an old friend
I’m breaking my longest blogging hiatus since I began spewing my myopic insights on the internet, way back in the mid-90s. Several folks wrote, asking if I were still alive. I didn’t answer them. Then it occurred to me that … Continue reading
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