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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)

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On Learning from Mistakes (69)

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Honey Stuff Part II, Bears, Goings On (68)

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Getting Honey Part 1 (67)

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Bookmark: Bonus episode for patrons is up! On The Nucleus Method (66)

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Apiary update & After a hive swarms (65)

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Bookmark: Bonus Audio on Inspections up on Patreon (64)

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Readings: On Drawing Hive Inspections (63)

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On Splits, Part Three; Some Q & A (62)

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On Splits, Part two: THE CUT DOWN! (61)

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On Splits, Part One (60)

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Interview with Lewis Cauble (59)

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Late winter in the bee yard (58)

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Interview with Queen Breeder Cory Stevens (57)

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Journeyman Test Review Segment A (56)

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Bee-School Radio Part 4: Seasons & Cycles (55)

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Listener Mail & Upcoming Episodes (54)

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Interview: Tina Sebestyen of Colorado (53)

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Bee-School Radio Part 3: Equipment. Plus Honey Giveaway & more (52)

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Bee-School Radio Part 2: The Colony (51)

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Readings: Post at The Apiarist (50)

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Bee-School Radio Part 1: Do you have what it takes? (49)

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Closing out 2019 plus encouragement: Don't Give Up! (48)

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Interview: Bryan Fisher (47)

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Readings: On Replacing Old Comb (46)

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From the listeners: Gratitudes on Beekeeping (45)

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How to slyly bring up BEES at Thanksgiving! (44)

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The Bee Barn! (43)

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Interview: Dr Meghan Milbrath (42)

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Dear Queen Stubby and the Observation hive (41)

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Listener questions; Sugar Brick Recipes (40)

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First Interview! Mark Smith of Flatwoods Bee Farm (39)

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More Winter Prep: Reading on Insulation and Ventilation (38)

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WINTER PREP: The high-speed Overview (37)

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Book Review Part 2 - Selected Reading (36)

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Book Review: Keeping Bees Alive by Lawrence John Conner ( 35 )

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About this current rabbit hole (34)

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Feed them if they need it (and maybe for other reasons) (33)

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Test results, Winter Prep part A (032)

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After the NCSBA conference, testing, gut microbes... (031)

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Reading: Activities and Behavior of Honey Bees (030)

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Avoiding hive robbers of the bee and human kind (029)

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EFB recovery; Late Summer is critical to overwintering, more. (028)

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Listener Mail: Top bars, hives without queens, swarm cells to nucs (027)

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Summer bee plants, selected reading 2/2, Caron/Connor (026)

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Summer bee plants, selected reading 1, Caron/Connor (025)

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How Many?!?! Adventures with virgin queens (024)

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European Foulbrood (023)

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Bee Health Guru App, Moving Bees, more (022)

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Bee yard updates, Summer Splits (021)

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Article by Tom Seeley: Darwinian Beekeeping (020)

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Making a Nuc to sell, Problems with Packages & More (019)

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Managing Mites Part II (018)

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Managing mites Part 1 (016-17)

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Bonus: Reading from “Requeening” by Larry Connor (015)

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My hive is queenless, what now? (014)

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Listener Questions, Bee Ramblings (013)

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Queen Rearing Using a Cloake Board (Sue Cobey’s article) (012)

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Simple ‘Frame-Based’ Queen Rearing, Part 2 (011)

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Queen Rearing Basics Part 1 (010)

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Listener Mail / Random Q & A / Apiary Update 4/1/19 (007)

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Few things I wish I'd known years ago (006)

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Welcome! First Podcast Episode /February 2019 ( 1 )