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EPISODE · Feb 17, 2026 · 1H 17M

Wintering at minus 50 in Singles!!

from About Bees, Culture & Curiosity · host Ron Miksha

Season 7 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Wintering at minus 50 in Singles!!  Let's go way up north to the Yukon with beekeeper Etienne Tardif. He experiments with wintering - in single storey hives - through minus 50 temperatures. His secrets, which he is happy to talk about, include carbon dioxide control guided by sophisticated monitoring. If you don't know how important tight space and excess CO2 can be to success wintering, you need to listen to this podcast. Etienne's North of 60 Beekeeping:  https://www.northof60beekeeping.com/ Hypoxia-Controlled Winter Metabolism in Honeybees https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0300962996000825 Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in February 2026. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation.  Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/540327/site About Ron Miksha: https://about-bees.org/about-ron/ Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst:  [email protected]

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