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Beekeeping at FiveApple — 150 episodes
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.
Ep156 Spring in the 🐝 bees!
Ep155 Tina Sebestyen Interview: Miller Method & More
Ep154 Swarm prevention & tips from Greg Rogers
Ep153 Interview with James Lee of SBGMI
Ep 152: Knowing Bee Biology Makes Better Beekeepers
Ep 151 If you lost bees this winter: figuring it out and going forward
Ep 150: Lifecycle of the Bees (and the beekeeper) for Newbees
Ep 149: Starting with a Nucleus Colony, for Newbees
Ep 148 January for the Beekeeper
Ep 147: Gifts of the bees and the beekeepers
Ep 146: Radio Reader: The Bees Winter Nest
Ep145 Organic? Treatment-Free? Chemical-Free? Natural Beekeeping Terms Explained in this great article
Ep 144 November surprise in the bee yard :-(
Ep 143: Tips for Winter Prep
Ep 142 Bee Amazement: the discoveries of Karl von Frisch
Ep 141 Bees & Big Ag from Michael Palmer's view
Ep 140 Vitamin C for bees??
Ep 139 Pollen! A deeper dive
Ep 138: The Bear Story & BONUS audio bookmark for Patrons
Ep 137 August Tips
Ep 136 Post-conference ramble
Ep 135 Bee Radio Reader: Division of Labor in a Colony, part 2 (ABJ March 2024)
Ep 134 Bee Radio Reader: Division of Labor in a Colony, part 1 (ABJ March 2024)
Ep 133 Queen Excluders: the good the bad etc
Ep 132: Keeping Records & Letter about Layens Hives
Ep. 131 The best for last: Reverse Doolittle Split (and Split Dynamics review)
Ep 130: Spring Nuc Split, Quiet Box, Doolittle Box
Ep 129: Swarm prevention tips
Ep 128 10-Frame vs 8-Frame...and/or all mediums
Ep 127 Rescued by Bee Friends!
Ep126 Propolis!
Ep 125 Starting with packages
Ep 124 Better (than caging) Brood Breaks
Ep 123 Welcome to 2025!
Ep 122: New Insulation Setup and The "Condensing Hive"
Late Fall...and Large NC disaster (Ep 121)
Fall prep list (120)
Loads of info! Part 2 Troy Hall of Hall Apiaries (119)
Troy Hall of Hall Apiaries Interview part 1, Ep 118
Tips for keeping bees cool, Solstice Queens, Split Comparisons & Patron bonus bookmark (117)
Reverse Doolittle Split - TS's method (117)
Runaway Splits (Episode 116)
Ep 115 - Early March
What? But, why?? Thoughts on a podcast (Bookmark)
Welcome to 2024 Beekeepers! Episode 113
Episode 112: Year’s End Reflections
Episode 111: New ways to monitor mites? Research project from Zac Lamas (and random bee chat)
Ep 110: Begin Again! Late Fall 2023
Ep 109 Specialty Splits: Part 1
108: Bee Radio Reader: Bait Hives
Ep 107: Coming out of Winter and HELLO AGAIN!
Black Jar Results and How-To; Weird goings on at the Farm; Part 1 about Optera (105)
Episode 104: The leaves are turning!
Bee Radio Reader: Combining Hives Early for Fall (103)
Summertime and the living is....hot! (102)
I’m Back! Lots to tell you about: Split results, combines, laying worker help (101)
Episode 100! Double Screen Board Love
Thinking about Splits (99)
Compilation on The Nucleus Split Method (98)
Bookmark for Bonus episode (97) for Patrons: Thoughts on the Interview
Ang Roell Interview Part 2 (96)
Ang Roell on Queen Research Results, Part 1 (95)
Welcome to Bee Season 2022! (94)
Book Review: The Rose Hive Method by Tim Rowe (93)
More experiments in overwintering (92)
On Fall Feeding (91)
Taking Stock of the Season (90)
Bee Radio Reader: More on Winter Prep (89)
Bee Radio Reader: Winter Bees! (88)
Bears and Bees don't mix... (87)
I'm in love with the Layens hive...
Making Nucleus Splits (85)
Hive Record Keeping Ramble (84)
Early Spring Inspections, encore (83)
Bee Season 2021 Begins!! (82)
Update from Leigh.... (Ep 81, but not really)
Reading: The Toolbox! (80)
December Notes; Book Review bookmark (79)
Late November Catch Up (78)
Plant Trees! Interview with Jimmy Gatt (77)
Breaking down Summer Dearth Effects and a short reading (76)
In Memory, Updates, Part II Winter prep (75)
Bonus Podcast Bookmark AND a feeding tip: Wisdom from 40+ Year with Irish Bees (74)
Winter Prep 1: Start with Stores (73)
Late Summer: Random Thoughts & Robbing (72)
Interview: Ang Roell of They Keep Bees (71)
Late Summer (70)
On Learning from Mistakes (69)
Honey Stuff Part II, Bears, Goings On (68)
Getting Honey Part 1 (67)
Bookmark: Bonus episode for patrons is up! On The Nucleus Method (66)
Apiary update & After a hive swarms (65)
Bookmark: Bonus Audio on Inspections up on Patreon (64)
Readings: On Drawing Hive Inspections (63)
On Splits, Part Three; Some Q & A (62)
On Splits, Part two: THE CUT DOWN! (61)
On Splits, Part One (60)
Interview with Lewis Cauble (59)
Late winter in the bee yard (58)
Interview with Queen Breeder Cory Stevens (57)
Journeyman Test Review Segment A (56)
Bee-School Radio Part 4: Seasons & Cycles (55)
Listener Mail & Upcoming Episodes (54)
Interview: Tina Sebestyen of Colorado (53)
Bee-School Radio Part 3: Equipment. Plus Honey Giveaway & more (52)
Bee-School Radio Part 2: The Colony (51)
Readings: Post at The Apiarist (50)
Bee-School Radio Part 1: Do you have what it takes? (49)
Closing out 2019 plus encouragement: Don't Give Up! (48)
Interview: Bryan Fisher (47)
Readings: On Replacing Old Comb (46)
From the listeners: Gratitudes on Beekeeping (45)
How to slyly bring up BEES at Thanksgiving! (44)
The Bee Barn! (43)
Interview: Dr Meghan Milbrath (42)
Dear Queen Stubby and the Observation hive (41)
Listener questions; Sugar Brick Recipes (40)
First Interview! Mark Smith of Flatwoods Bee Farm (39)
More Winter Prep: Reading on Insulation and Ventilation (38)
WINTER PREP: The high-speed Overview (37)
Book Review Part 2 - Selected Reading (36)
Book Review: Keeping Bees Alive by Lawrence John Conner ( 35 )
About this current rabbit hole (34)
Feed them if they need it (and maybe for other reasons) (33)
Test results, Winter Prep part A (032)
After the NCSBA conference, testing, gut microbes... (031)
Reading: Activities and Behavior of Honey Bees (030)
Avoiding hive robbers of the bee and human kind (029)
EFB recovery; Late Summer is critical to overwintering, more. (028)
Listener Mail: Top bars, hives without queens, swarm cells to nucs (027)
Summer bee plants, selected reading 2/2, Caron/Connor (026)
Summer bee plants, selected reading 1, Caron/Connor (025)
How Many?!?! Adventures with virgin queens (024)
European Foulbrood (023)
Bee Health Guru App, Moving Bees, more (022)
Bee yard updates, Summer Splits (021)
Article by Tom Seeley: Darwinian Beekeeping (020)
Making a Nuc to sell, Problems with Packages & More (019)
Managing Mites Part II (018)
Managing mites Part 1 (016-17)
Bonus: Reading from “Requeening” by Larry Connor (015)
My hive is queenless, what now? (014)
Listener Questions, Bee Ramblings (013)
Queen Rearing Using a Cloake Board (Sue Cobey’s article) (012)
Simple ‘Frame-Based’ Queen Rearing, Part 2 (011)
Queen Rearing Basics Part 1 (010)
Listener Mail / Random Q & A / Apiary Update 4/1/19 (007)
Few things I wish I'd known years ago (006)
Welcome! First Podcast Episode /February 2019 ( 1 )