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Ep168 Scent Communications

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Ep167 Autumn Says Get Ready

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Ep166 Warmer autumns are good for bees right? Turns out, not really.

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Ep165: Bee Radio Reader "Reflections on the Past Seasons"

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updated Ep164 After 16 years, a shift for me

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Ep164 After 16 years, a shift for me

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Ep163 Robbing prevention (and a tip I love!)

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Ep162 July Ramble–thoughts in the heat, fun letter, invitation for you

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Ep161 Making sense of the assays—with Ang Roell of They Keep Bees

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Ep160 Honey Harvesting Process

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Ep159 Queen Introduction: Tips to get that caged mated queen accepted

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Ep158 Ryan Williamson of Sourwood Farm (Virginia) Interview

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Ep157  More Springtime Tips: Keeping bees in the boxes, avoid the honey dome, get more comb drawn, know if your hive is queenright or queenless.

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Ep156 Spring in the 🐝 bees!

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Ep155 Tina Sebestyen Interview: Miller Method & More

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Ep154 Swarm prevention & tips from Greg Rogers

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Ep153 Interview with James Lee of SBGMI

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Ep 152: Knowing Bee Biology Makes Better Beekeepers

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Ep 151 If you lost bees this winter: figuring it out and going forward

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Ep 150: Lifecycle of the Bees (and the beekeeper) for Newbees

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Ep 149: Starting with a Nucleus Colony, for Newbees

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Ep 148 January for the Beekeeper

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Ep 147: Gifts of the bees and the beekeepers

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Ep 146: Radio Reader: The Bees Winter Nest

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Ep145 Organic? Treatment-Free? Chemical-Free? Natural Beekeeping Terms Explained in this great article

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Ep 144 November surprise in the bee yard :-(

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Ep 143: Tips for Winter Prep

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Ep 142 Bee Amazement: the discoveries of Karl von Frisch

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Ep 141 Bees & Big Ag from Michael Palmer's view

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Ep 140 Vitamin C for bees??

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Ep 139 Pollen! A deeper dive

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Ep 138: The Bear Story & BONUS audio bookmark for Patrons

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Ep 137 August Tips

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Ep 136 Post-conference ramble

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Ep 135 Bee Radio Reader: Division of Labor in a Colony, part 2 (ABJ March 2024)

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Ep 134 Bee Radio Reader: Division of Labor in a Colony, part 1 (ABJ March 2024)

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Ep 133 Queen Excluders: the good the bad etc

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Ep 132: Keeping Records & Letter about Layens Hives

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Ep. 131 The best for last: Reverse Doolittle Split (and Split Dynamics review)

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Ep 130: Spring Nuc Split, Quiet Box, Doolittle Box

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Ep 129: Swarm prevention tips

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Ep 128 10-Frame vs 8-Frame...and/or all mediums

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Ep 127 Rescued by Bee Friends!

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Ep126 Propolis!

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Ep 125 Starting with packages

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Ep 124 Better (than caging) Brood Breaks

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Ep 123 Welcome to 2025!

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Ep 122: New Insulation Setup and The "Condensing Hive"

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Late Fall...and Large NC disaster (Ep 121)

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Fall prep list (120)

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Loads of info! Part 2 Troy Hall of Hall Apiaries (119)

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Troy Hall of Hall Apiaries Interview part 1, Ep 118

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Tips for keeping bees cool, Solstice Queens, Split Comparisons & Patron bonus bookmark (117)

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Reverse Doolittle Split - TS's method (117)

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Runaway Splits (Episode 116)

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Ep 115 - Early March

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What? But, why?? Thoughts on a podcast (Bookmark)

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Welcome to 2024 Beekeepers! Episode 113

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Episode 112: Year’s End Reflections

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Episode 111: New ways to monitor mites? Research project from Zac Lamas (and random bee chat)

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Ep 110: Begin Again! Late Fall 2023

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Ep 109 Specialty Splits: Part 1

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108: Bee Radio Reader: Bait Hives

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Ep 107: Coming out of Winter and HELLO AGAIN!

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Black Jar Results and How-To; Weird goings on at the Farm; Part 1 about Optera (105)

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Episode 104: The leaves are turning!

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Bee Radio Reader: Combining Hives Early for Fall (103)

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Summertime and the living is....hot! (102)

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I’m Back! Lots to tell you about: Split results, combines, laying worker help (101)

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Episode 100! Double Screen Board Love

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Thinking about Splits (99)

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Compilation on The Nucleus Split Method (98)

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Bookmark for Bonus episode (97) for Patrons: Thoughts on the Interview

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Ang Roell Interview Part 2 (96)

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Ang Roell on Queen Research Results, Part 1 (95)

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Welcome to Bee Season 2022! (94)

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Book Review: The Rose Hive Method by Tim Rowe (93)

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More experiments in overwintering (92)

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On Fall Feeding (91)

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Taking Stock of the Season (90)

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Bee Radio Reader: More on Winter Prep (89)

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Bee Radio Reader: Winter Bees! (88)

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Bears and Bees don't mix... (87)

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I'm in love with the Layens hive...

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Making Nucleus Splits (85)

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Hive Record Keeping Ramble (84)

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Early Spring Inspections, encore (83)

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Bee Season 2021 Begins!! (82)

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Update from Leigh.... (Ep 81, but not really)

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Reading: The Toolbox! (80)

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December Notes; Book Review bookmark (79)

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Late November Catch Up (78)

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Plant Trees! Interview with Jimmy Gatt (77)

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Breaking down Summer Dearth Effects and a short reading (76)

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In Memory, Updates, Part II Winter prep (75)

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Bonus Podcast Bookmark AND a feeding tip: Wisdom from 40+ Year with Irish Bees (74)

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Winter Prep 1: Start with Stores (73)

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Late Summer: Random Thoughts & Robbing (72)

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Interview: Ang Roell of They Keep Bees (71)

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Late Summer (70)