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Bees and Winter

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What Winter Prep?

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What Beekeepers can Learn from Successful Investors

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Why All the Bees?

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My Two Biggest Beekeeping Mistakes and Stinging Nettle for Mite Prevention

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Hive and Mite Treatment Updates and Last Day for the Free Class

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I've Never Done This Before... My Beekeeping Class Is Free for One Week

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Re-Discovering the Joy of Beekeeping and a New Hive Survival Predictor?

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Coping with Heat can We Help Them?

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First Mite Treatment

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Hobby Beekeeping with 3 Hives

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Why would a Swarm Pick this Home?

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Swarms Arriving

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Could this Oxalic Acid treatment be the fix?

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This One Thing could have Saved my Bees

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Did this Hive actually Make it?

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Waiting for Swarms

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Tractor Thoughts and Planning

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Hive Autopsy

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95% of the Hives have Died

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Coping with Hive Loss

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Hive Swarm Risk is Launched

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We Usually don't Know What Killed our Bees

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I killed My Nova Scotia Bees

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To Treat or not to Treat?

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Keeping Bees in Ontario and New Brunswick

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A New Tool to Help with Swarm Prediction

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If Bees Hate Each Other Why do We Put them Togehter?

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How would I Start Beekeeping Today

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Hobby Beekeeper could go To Jail for Taking Bees Home

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Hands off Drones

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Green Goop on a Beekeeping Podcast?

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Doing Less in 2026

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Will you Become a Citizen Scientist in 2026?

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Winter Time to do Nothing

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Why do You Keep Bees?

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Deformed Wing Virus Spotted

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The Placebo Effect of Varroa Treatments

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AI Update and Bee Lessons

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Yellow Jacket Attack

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Late Fall Hive Updates

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Why I'm Excited to have Finally Lost some Hives

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Some Thoughts on the Year and Next Steps

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The Fraud of Nature Based and Treatment Free Beekeeping

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This Scientist explains why Treatment Free is the Only Way

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Science Says Stop Treating for Mites

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Stupid Beekeeping Researcher Tricks

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From the Nova Scotia Bee House

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AI Does Help Orientation Flights and the good of Honey Bound Hives

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Nature Based Beekeeping and Dog Days of August

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Bad Air Swarms and Hive Updates

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Why we Want Relaxed Bees

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Servant Beekeeping Exposed

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What do I do with the Warre Swarm Hive?

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Hot Days and The Bees are Reducing their Entrance

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Collecting Honey and Dealing with the Heat

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Hives Exploding

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Summer Walk-Away Splits

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Nova Scotia Bee House has Bees

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Taking the Queen on a Walk Away Split

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Time to Leave them Alone

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Swarms Move In

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Good and Bad Splits Plus a new Live Question and Answer Tonight

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Mice Hive Inspection and Farm Update

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The No Look Walk Away Split

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6 Steps to Avoid Dumb Stupid Beekeeping

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Is This a Sign of a Strong Hive?

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Help them Live or Let Them Die?

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Drone Watch

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These Two Strategies Could Really Help Your Bees

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2 Frame Nuc's Arrive

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The Final Strategy If I were Starting Today

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This Natural Pest Could Kill Varroa-Special Podcast

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Splitting and Reduced Hive Entrances

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93 % Survival So Far and Here's What I think is Happening

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Picking that First Hive and the Goal of Sustainability

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Why Hobby Beekeeping?

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With 80% to 100% of Bees Dead What can we Do?

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Bees are Dying and Two Strategies for Beginning Beekeepers

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Top 10 Beginner Beekeeper Tips

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Will it Take 100 more Years to Save our Bees?

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AI Tool Now Open for Iphone Videos

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Stop Doing This and Increase Your Honey Production

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Last Chance to Sign Up for our AI Tool

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Easy Way to Monitor Hives in the Winter

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Learning from Winter Flights

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New Year's Honeybee Lessons

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Are We Spoiling our Bees

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Some 55% of hives Lost by October But I'm So Optimistic about 2025

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Should We Stop Feeding Surgar Syrup?

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November and Lots going On

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Fanning Mystery Solved

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Join the Waitlist for our Free AI Tool

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Winter Prep and Some Post Thanksgiving Tid Bits

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Why Count Bees

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Survivor Hive Traits

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AI Update

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What a Mess Swarm Hive Robbed

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Why do we see Orientation Flights in late October?

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Drone Purge Day