Podcast appearances and mentions of bee lab

At the Minnesota State Fair, there's a booth ran by The University of Minnesota's Bee Lab. At the booth, Volunteers can get up to 10,000 honey bees placed on your face for a big “BEE BEARD” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Jeff and Becky welcome Dr. Jay Evans from the USDA-ARS Beltsville Bee Lab. Jay shares his vast experience and insights into honeybee research, focusing on the critical issues affecting beekeepers today. From his beginnings studying ants to his current role in bee research, Jay offers a fascinating perspective on the complexities of bee health and the collaborative efforts needed to tackle these challenges. Jay discusses the importance of viewing the colony as a whole system, emphasizing the impact of viruses, mites, and environmental stressors on bee health. He highlights the current research on how bees behave when they're sick, and how understanding these behaviors can help in managing colonies more effectively. The conversation also touches on the significance of climate and weather changes, particularly how warmer late falls can negatively impact bee health by extending their active season. Listeners will learn about the ongoing efforts to find new treatments for Varroa mites, with Jay detailing the promising research into new chemicals that could provide beekeepers with more effective options. He also talks about the importance of collaboration in research, with different experts bringing their unique skills to tackle various aspects of bee health. This episode is a treasure trove of information for beekeepers of all levels, offering practical advice and updates on the latest research in the field. Tune in to hear from one of the leading voices in bee research and gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions in modern beekeeping. Listen today! Websites we recommend! USDA-ARS Beltsville Bee Research Lab: https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-barc/beltsville-agricultural-research-center/bee-research-laboratory/ Beltsville Bee Disease Diagnostic Service: https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-barc/beltsville-agricultural-research-center/bee-research-laboratory/docs/bee-disease-diagnosis-service/ Honey Bee Health Coalition: https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org The National Honey Board: https://honey.com Honey Bee Obscura Podcast: https://honeybeeobscura.com 2 Million Blossoms - The Podcast: https://2millionblossoms.com   ______________ Betterbee is the presenting sponsor of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global offers a variety of standard and custom patties. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  Thanks to Bee Smart Designs as a sponsor of this podcast! Bee Smart Designs is the creator of innovative, modular and interchangeable hive systems made in the USA using recycled and American sourced materials. Bee Smart Designs - Simply better beekeeping for the modern beekeeper. HiveAlive offers a unique supplement with seaweed extracts, thyme, and lemongrass, proven to maintain low disease levels, increase bee populations, boost honey production, improve bee gut health, and enhance overwinter survival.  Check out their new HiveAlive EZ Feed Super Syrup this fall! Visit www.usa.hivealivebees.com and use code "BTP" for a special discount. Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com Thanks for Northern Bee Books for their support. Northern Bee Books is the publisher of bee books available worldwide from their website or from Amazon and bookstores everywhere. They are also the publishers of The Beekeepers Quarterly and Natural Bee Husbandry. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments in the show notes of this episode or: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Be Strong by Young Presidents; Epilogue by Musicalman; Faraday by BeGun; Walking in Paris by Studio Le Bus; A Fresh New Start by Pete Morse; Wedding Day by Boomer; Christmas Avenue by Immersive Music; Red Jack Blues by Daniel Hart; Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott. Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC Copyright © 2024 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

In this episode Samantha chats about all things honey bees with Dr. Selina Bruckner of the Bee Lab here at Auburn University. Dr. Bruckner talks about her introduction to honey bees during her time as an undergraduate student in Switzerland, how she came to continue her studies in the United States at Auburn University, the honey bee population's biggest threats, and how you can do your part to help save the bees! To learn more about the Auburn Bee Lab and their resources, research, and upcoming honey sales check out their social media pages: Facebook and Instagram @auburnbees For more information on beekeeping from the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES) team check out their website If you are an Auburn University student interested in getting involved with the For The Bees club, check out their social media and AUInvolve listing Also make sure to follow the podcast's Instagram page, @actual_ag! DM us there any questions you may want to have answered in a future episode and be on the lookout for an upcoming giveaway. If you want, leave me a voice message with your questions about agriculture and they might just be included in an episode!

 Hello bug lovers! Join us today as we meet up with Dr. Judy Wu-Smart of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to talk about her work with pollinator health. Dr. Wu-Smart runs the Bee Lab at UNL and is focused on mitigating stresses on honey bee hives and developing practical advice for beekeepers to use. She's also been in the news lately and we'll talk all about that experience. Tune in!Show Notes:UNL Bee Lab: https://entomology.unl.edu/bee-labFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/unlbeelab/Great Plains Anywhere Lecturehttps://mediahub.unl.edu/media/14994Judy Wu-Smart: UNL Directory: https://entomology.unl.edu/faculty/dr-judy-wu-smartInstagram: @hapbeeladyTwitter: @JudyWuSmart1 Article: https://journalstar.com/news/local/chemicals-dont-just-disappear-persistence-by-researchers-residents-uncovers-pesticide-contamination-at-mead-plant/article_8d31dc75-dcdf-5ed5-b263-c4e158b4a11c.html

Check out Elaine here: Elaine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fuzzybumblebee?lang=en The Bee Lab: https://www.beelab.umn.edu Lil Dudes Insect Academy was created by me and is ran by me! If you don’t know who I am, “Nice to meet you! I’m Bradon”. My passion is to learn more about bugs and teach others about them! In my Podcasts we will be talking about everything bug-related! From best places to visit to putting them in your salad, we will just talk bugs! I will also be interviewing some professional Entomologists! Hope you stick around! Website: lildudesinsectacademy.com ✌️Follow me on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lildudelovesbugs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lil.dudes.insect.academy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BoyLovesBugs1

In this episode we will be interviewing Dr. Mike Simone-Finstrom, acting research leader at the USDA honey bee breeding, genetics, and physiology lab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We will follow that by interviewing our very own, Dr. Humberto Boncristiani, from the HBREL on the World Honey Bee Health project. We end this episode with Q&A.

January 7th marked the ribbon cutting ceremony for the newest USDA Honey Bee Research Lab in Davis, California. Drs. Arathi Seshadri, the lab’s Research Leader and Julia Fine are the initial staff, looking at colony health and stress factors. Dr. Fine joins the this episode to talk about her new role and the mission of the lab. Dr. Fine is more the lab person looking at the effects of nutrition stress on reproduction. The lab is just getting set up, so they are looking for grad students, post docs and people with beekeeping skills to help set up the lab’s soon-to-be apiary. We plan on having Dr. Fine back after the almond bloom to get her take on this event, and see what’s going on after some of the dust settles. Stay tuned for that discussion early this summer!  Website and links mention in this episode include: USDA-ARS Lab Opening News Release: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=39183 PostDoc Researcher Job Listing: https://www.projectapism.org/uploads/1/0/5/7/105706229/fine_ars_postdoc_2019.pdf ______________ This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a new quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong"

Over the last year I participated in the Bee Informed Partnership’s Sentinel Apiary Program. You’ve heard me share tales of pulling samples and the tiny funnel that was included in the sampling kit. I was curious to learn more about what goes on at the lab at the University of Maryland where the Bee Informed Partnership is stationed. After I completed the program for the year, and upon a special request from one of our listeners, I asked for an interview and they said YES! Joining us from the BEE LAB is Kelly Kulhanek and Dan Reynolds! I might be too excited about this interview...   Check out our new website at www.beekeeperconfidential.com and join our community forum! You can also find Beekeeper Confidential on Facebook and Instagram. To become a patron visit Mandy's Patreon page at www.patreon.com/mandyshaw    Cover art by Meggyn Pomerleau  

Dr. Geoff Williams is an assistant professor at Auburn University. He is in charge of the Bee Lab and is on the Board of the Bee Informed Partnership. Selina Bruckner is a PhD student in entomology at Auburn and working on the Annual Colony Loss and Management Survey. The Bee Informed Partnership Colony Loss and National Management Survey is now in its 13th year and BIP is able to use the wealth of data to start to understand how management practices are impacting colony mortality across the country.  It doesn't matter how many hives you have: Whether you are a backyard beekeeper, a sideliner or a commercial beekeeper - your information can be helpful to everyone. The survey closes on April 30th, so please use the link below to take the survey online. Your personal identifying information is kept confidential, so you respond in confidence. Selina provide this poem during the podcast and has permitted us to post it here!  You can  download a copy by clicking on the link at the top of this page. Links and websites mention in the episode: The Survey can be filled out here: https://26.selectsurvey.net/beeinformed/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=LMS2019# A preview of the Survey can be found here: https://beeinformed.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PREVIEW_2018-2019-Loss-and-Management-Survey-paper.pdf And results from previous years can be found here: https://bip2.beeinformed.org/loss-map/ _______________ This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this show with Geoff and Selina!  _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com  Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong"    

On Season 2, Episode 4 of Hyperlink Radio, Mindy Holahan Peters is sitting down with James Wolfin, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota Bee Lab to talk about the ongoing struggle to restore a healthy population of bees. But that endeavor isn't just for the bee labs and scientists—James and Mindy discuss what you can do to help encourage the bees in your neighborhood, short of becoming a hobby bee keeper. (And actually, James doesn't necessarily recommend you do that, either.) Did you know that 3/4 of our food products require pollination? Bees are more critically integrated with our existence than many of us realize. Dwindling bee numbers are all of our concern, so this episode is critical listening. Enjoy!

In this episode we travel to a world without bees. And not just honey bees, all bees.     You’ve probably heard a lot of doom and gloom predictions about what might happen if honey bees went extinct. Mass famine! The end of coffee! World economic collapse! But is that all true? (Probably not.) And how likely is a honeybee extinction anyway? (Extremely unlikely.) Plus, what about all the other bees in the world? We ponder these questions and more in this episode.    To walk us through what might happen to agriculture if bees went away, I talked to Marcelo A. Aizen, a researcher who studies plant pollinator interactions. His research suggests that the loss of honeybees might not be as dire as everybody claims. And to talk about the more neglected bees out there, I called up Elaine Evans, a professor at the University of MInnesota’s Bee Lab, and Paige Embry, the author of the forthcoming book Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them.     Plus, a little bonus “what if” at the end, featuring cartoonist Dean Yeagle, the man who drew the original Honey Nut Cheerios bee.     Further reading:    How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production (PDF)  How to befriend bumblebees   What if bees went extinct?  Why bees are disappearing  Citizen Science: Bumble Bee Surveys  Has Anybody Seen the Franklin’s Bumblebee?  Franklin’s Bumblebee Still Elusive  The Old Man and the Bee  Wallace’s Giant Bee  Honey Nut Cheerios Mascot Goes Missing as Brand Addresses Declining Bee Populations    Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The future voice this episode was provided by Mike Rugnetta. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.     If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. I love hearing your ideas! And if you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool.     And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! Head to www.flashforwardpod.com/support for more about how to give. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to iTunes and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help.     That’s all for this future, come back next time and we’ll travel to a new one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices