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PolliNation Podcast — 305 episodes

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305 - Inside the USGS/FWS Native Bee Lab: Building Bee Monitoring, ID, and Data Capacity | PolliNation

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304 - Millions of Solitary Bees in a Cemetery: Andrena regularis Aggregations and Parasite Dynamics | PolliNation

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303 - Wonderful World of Wasps | PolliNation

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302 - Forest Log Landings for Bees | PolliNation

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301 - Mason Bees 101: How to Care for Blue Orchard Bees (and Stop Houdini Flies) | PolliNation

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300 - PolliNation RELOADED | PolliNation

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299 - Inside Idaho's Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee Cocoon Testing Center | PolliNation

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298 - Wibee: A Simple App to Measure Pollination Activity in Your Orchard | PolliNation

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297 - Pollen Wasps: A Parallel Path to Pollination | PolliNation

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296 - From Isolation to Innovation: Diversified Beekeeping in Northern BC | PolliNation

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295 - Commercial Beekeeping Futures | PolliNation

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294 - Ghost Bees (and Why They're a Problem) | PolliNation

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293 - Pollinator Pathway Bend | PolliNation

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292 - The Overlooked Hoverfly | PolliNation

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291 - Vancouver Pollinator Festival | PolliNation

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290 - Wildfires vs. Timber Harvesting: Impact on Bee Communities | PolliNation

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289 - They Make A LOT of Honey in Alberta | PolliNation

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287 - The Bees of National Wildlife Refuges | PolliNation

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288 - The Future of Washington State Pollination | PolliNation

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286 - Precision Pollination with BeeHero | PolliNation

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285 - Honey Bee and Native Bee Competition | PolliNation

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284 - Queen Bee Honey Co Takes Beekeeping Back to School | PolliNation

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283 - BEEvent: the Mighty Conference on Pollinators for Gardeners | PolliNation

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282 - Checklist of the Bees of Washington State | PolliNation

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281 - Rock Gardens with Dancing Oaks Nursery | PolliNation

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280 - Buzzing with Innovation | PolliNation

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279 - Southern Oregon Buzzway | PolliNation

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278 - Fabrication For Beekeepers | PolliNation

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277 - New PNW Bee Keys | PolliNation

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276 - Large Colony Losses Looming

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275 - Do Filter Strips Help Bees and Butterflies?

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274 - Commercial Beekeeping

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273 - European Mason Bees in America

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272 - The Milwaukee Pollinator Pathway

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271 - The MIGHTY Tamalpais Bee Lab

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270 - Mason Bees and the Cold

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269 - Bees in the Arboretum

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268 - Birds and Flowers

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266 - Farm to school (and pollinators)

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265 - Oregon Honey and Mead Festival

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264 - Could changes in pesticide hazard to bees be detected across a state?

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263 - National Pollen Phenology Wheel

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262 - Buddleja and the bees

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261 - Making observations on ground nesting bees

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260 - Hornet invasion in the UK (and how they are fighting back)

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259 - Washington State Update (so much news)

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258 - Tillamook Apiary and Garden Learning Center (aka there is more to Tillamook than cheese)

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257 - Lotmaria... the bee gut organism you have never heard of

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256 - Backyard Habitat Certification

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255 - Stay out! The perils of commercial bumble colonies to wild queens.

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254 - Restoring Pollinator Habitat with Greenbelt Land Trust

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253 - Bee Friendly Farming in the PNW

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252 - Maximizing pollination potential in cherries

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251 - Surveying for American foulbrood in honey

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250 - Garden bees of Portland

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249 - How to buy a native plant

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248 - The art of pollination

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247 - Too hot for pollen?

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246 - Prairie Strips

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245 - Bee Friendly Gardening with Elliott Gordon

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244 - Bee Friendly Gardening with Lynn Kunstman

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243 - Bee Friendly Gardening

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242 - Bee Friendly Wine (King Estate)

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241 - Rip out your lawn (and replace it with subalpine meadow)

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240 - Bumble bee nest relocation and rearing

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239 - Oregon Master Beekeeper Field Day

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238 - National Pollinator Week 2023

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237 - Bee Friendly Wine (Sokol Blosser)

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236 - Vanderpool - (Very) wet start to PNW beekeeping

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235 - Kulhanek - Washington's new Pollinator Health Research and Extension Program!

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234 - Goldstein - Colony strength and blueberry pollination

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233 - Hill - The Latest Buzz

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232 - Shannon - Do adjuvants influence bee health?

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231 - Dean - Georgia bee license plate

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230 - Eeraerts - Stocking honey bee colonies for the landscape

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229 - Lu - Marker assisted selection 101 (for breeding honey bees)

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228 - Rinkevich - Are varroa resistant to amitraz?

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227 - Lindsay- Matching plants to bees

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226 - Spendal - Those amazing mason bees

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225 - Chabert - Would blueberry yield benefit from planting different cultivars together?

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224 - Jennings and Willson - Washington Native Bee Society (WANBS)

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223 - Youngsteadt - Urban bees: what drives diversity and how do we measure it?

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222 - Danielsen - Pollinator habitat on water pipelines?

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221 - Taylor - Bees and school farms

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220 - Washington Co Master Gardener - Pollinator Outreach (par excellence)

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219 - Labuschagne - Living through a Varroapocolypse

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218 - Casey Holland - What the heck does IPM mean (in New Mexico)?

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217 - O'Shea-Wheller - Are varroa resistant bees ready for primetime with the POL line?

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216 - Yang and Henle - Machines learning to classify insecticides as toxic to bees

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215 - Mahood - Drone congregation areas

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214 - Paul - Mason Bees in (an unusually) Cool Wet Spring

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213 - Whitford and Feken - The complex life of the honey bee

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212 - Clay Bolt - Grassland Pollinators

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211 - Morfin - New Tech Transfer Program in BC

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210 - Coffan - What's going on with Western Monarchs

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209 - Burgett - Working together in the PNW

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208 - Merissa Moeller - Endangered Species Act 101

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207 - Andony Melathopoulos - How did I get into bees?

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206 - Ellen Topitzhofer - The Holy Grail: Banking Queens Over the Winter

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205 - George Kaufman - What the heck does IPM mean (in blueberries)?

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204 - Josée Rousseau - Birds and the bees: How bird data can inform us on where insect pollinators live

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203 - Dana Church - How humans changed the world of bumble bees

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202 - Moyer - Getting Bees Out of the Walls

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201 - Nico Ardans - What the heck does IPM mean (in nurseries)?

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200 - OSU Pollinator Health Lab - An Expose!

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199 - Kayla Perry - What drives bumble bee community composition?

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198 - James Tracy - Monarch collisions on roadways

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197 - Laura Johnson - Bee Health in Vermont

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196 - Bob Walters - Bee Check

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195 - Maddie Carpenter - What is the North American honey bee?

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194 - Joe Maresh - Oregon State Beekeepers Association Conference

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193 - Laurie Adams and Josette Lewis - California Pollinator Coalition

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192 - Lisa DeVetter - Blueberry Pollination Planner

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191 - Jen Hayes - Natives v nativars for pollinators

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190 - Maxime Eeraerts - Sweet cherry pollination

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189 - Spencer Leonard - Fable of the Bees (Part 2)

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188 - Spencer Leonard - Fable of the Bees (Part 1)

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187 - Mace Vaughn - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Pollinators

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186 - Dean Herzfeld - Where do pesticide applicators get their training?

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185 - Kathleen Law - Keeping Bees Safe During Blueberries

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184 - Steve Javorek - Bee Habitat in Lowbush Blueberry

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183 - Pollinator Partnership - National Pollinator Week (and Beyond)

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182 - Miranda Jones - The Great Oregon Squash Bee Hunt

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181- Jim Cane - Pollination of raspberries and other caneberries

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180- Glyn Stephens - Splitting your booming colonies

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179- Michael Branstetter - The deep history of the mason bees

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178- Anna Ashby and Amber Reece - 10 beekeeping questions you were too afraid to ask

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177- Olivia Messinger Carril - A field guide to the common bees of North America?

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176- Fred Weisensee - The pollinator plants you need!

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175 - Marie Vicksta and Michael O'Loughlin - Pollinator Habitat on County Roadsides

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174 -Veronica Wignall - Whacking bees for science: Competitive exclusion between honey bees and bumblebees in the UK

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173 - Jessica Rendon - Japanese beetle (is no friend of pollinators)

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172 - Theresa Pitts-Singer - Where next for managed solitary bees

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171 - Brittany Goodrich - How pollinator markets work

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170 - Halie Cousineau - School gardens and pollinators

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169 - Al Shay - Moving your pollinator garden up a notch

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168 - Carolyn Breece and Ellen Topitzhofer - Late Winter Hive Management

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167 - Linda Hardison - Oregon Flora… reloaded

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166 - Alison McAfee - Queens don't like it too hot or cold

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165 - Zach Portman - When pan traps might not pan out (for bee surveys).

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164 - Chris Looney - Hornets and invasive bumble bees in Washington

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163 - Ian Tait - 2020 Year in Review

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162 - Katie Buckley - Washington's Pollinator Health Task Force

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161 - Kate LeCroy- Exotic Mason Bees

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160 - Jim Cane - Bees and fire

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159 - Jamie Ellis - Turning the corner with varroa?

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158 - Kara Maddox - Pollinators for the Masses

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157 - Katie Arstingstall - Bees collect pollen from more plants than you think

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156 - Shelley Hoover - Preparing hives for winter

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155 - Brian Speisman - Bee Machine

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Episode 154 - Josh Vlach - Invasive pests and pollinators

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153 - Miles Dakin - Bee Friendly Farming

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152 - August Jackson - The Steens Mountains

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151 - Sarah Peebles - Resonating Bodies

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150 - Master Melittologists

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149 - Caydee Savinelli - BeSure

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148 - John Ascher - 10 Oregon Bees

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147 - Christina Groziner - BeeScape

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146 - Shelby Kilpatrick - Checklist of Pennsylvania Bees

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145 - Native Bee Society of British Columbia - Connecting bee enthusiasts together

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144 - Mike Burgett - The "other" honey bees

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143 - Hailey Wallace - What makes a bee garden tick?

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142 Megan Asche - Social Wasps

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141 - Neil Bell - The best pollinator shrubs and trees

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140 Rebecca Sweet - Pollinator cover crops in vineyards

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139 Jay Evans - Beeoptimism: Reflections on the advances in bee research

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138 Ron Spendal - The secret lives of mason bees

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137 John Ascher - The problem with measuring bee decline

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136 Mandy Shaw - Bee Entrepreneurship

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135 Suzie Savoie - Spring native pollinator plants

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134 Jim Cane - Spring Bees

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133 Kim Patten - Pollinator habitat on working farms

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132 - Meghan Milbrath - European Foulbrood

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131 - Megan O'Rourke - Pasture for beef... and bees?

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130 - Carolyn Breece - Should you keep bees?

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129 - Ron Bitner - Vineyards for Pollinators

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128 – Serkan Ates – Livestock forage plants and bees

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127 – Kirsten Traynor – 2 Million Blossoms

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126 – Casey Hale – Bees that are parasites on other bees

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125 – Lila Westreich – The Secret Life of Mason Bees

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124 – Lauren Ponisio – Pollinator Hedgerows

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123 – Megan Swanson – Bees in the Classroom

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122 – The End of 2019 Show

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121 – Weston Miller – Solving Pest Problems

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120 – Claire Kremen and Corin Pease – New to the PNW

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119 – MR Pollination – Alfalfa leafcutter bees

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118 - Rich Hatfield - Queen Quest

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117 - Gregory Lynch - Miel Montréal Co-op

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116 - Highlights from Apimondia 2019

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115 - Robert Marshall - Roadside pollinator habitat

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114 - John Jacob - Solar panels and pollinator habitat

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113 - Kass Urban-Mead - Bees in trees?

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112 - Bob Curtis - Improving bee health during pollination

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111 - August Jackson - Bees of the Willamette Valley

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110 - International Pollinator Conference Highlights (2019)

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109 - Shelley Hoover - Its all in the queen

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108 - Rosalyn Johnson - Bio-diverse and drought-tolerant gardens

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107 - Bryan Danforth - The Solitary Bees

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106 - Jim Cane - Squash and Sunflower Bees

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105 - Tyson Wepprich - Insect Apocalypse?

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104 - Bonnie Shoffner - The finer points of pollinator outreach

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103 - Rachel Mallinger - Bees in blueberries, forests and gardens (in Florida)

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102 - Jacob Pecenka - Watermelons, pests and pollination

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101 - Sharon Selvaggio - Labeling Pollinator Plants

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100 - THE Everything-You-wanted-to-know-about-pollinators-but-were-afraid- to-ask SHOW

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99 – Adam Allington – The Business of Bees

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98 – Bob Falconer – Backyard Pollinator Strips Made Easy

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97 Hannah Levenson - Regional bee communities (and the plants they like)

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96 Mia Park - Urban Prairie Restoration for Bees

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95 Lincoln Best - The Oregon Bee Atlas

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94 Aaron Anderson - Which Native Plants Are Best For In Your Garden For Oregon Bees?

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93 Dr. Elina L Niño - Pollinating California Almonds

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92 Jim Cane - The Weird And Wonderful World of Alfalfa Pollination

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91 Pierre Lau - The Everything-You-Wanted-To-Know-About-Pollen Episode

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90 Dr. Casey Delphia - The Bees of Montana

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89 Kim Flottum - The Venerable Tradition of Getting the Word Out About Bees

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88 Rebecca Perry and Grace Cope - The Benefits of Golf Course Flower Patches Depends on Course Management

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87 Steve Peterson - How To Make Mason Bees Thrive?

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86 Dr. Priyadarshini Chakrabarti - The Secret Life of Bee Nutrition

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85 Lynda Boyer - Producing Native Plants For Bees

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84 Kathleen Baughman - Nurseries and Pollinators

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83 Harry Vanderpool - Talking to Pesticide Applicators About Bees

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82 Sarah Kincaid - Promoting Bee-Friendly Farming

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81 Dr. Valerie Peters - Climate Change, Pollinators and Coffee

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80 Dr. Christina Mogren - Bees in Hawaii

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79 Robyn Shephard - Hybrid Vegetable Seed Pollination

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78 Emily Erickson - Breeding and The Attractiveness of Garden Plants

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77 David Cantlin - More Clover In Your Turf? Lessons from the City of Fife

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76 Dr. Chelsea Cook - Honey Bee Scouting and the Virtues of Being Easily Distracted

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75 Amy Cox - Eco-lawns and Pollinators

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74 Lila Westreich - Mason Bees and Landscapes

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73 Research Retinue - Is Glyphosate Harmful To Bees?

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72 Garth Mulkey - Specialty seeds and bees

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71 Courtney MacInnis and Dr. Steve Pernal - Honey Bee Nosema Disease: An Old Disease With New Twists

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70 Dr. Sara Galbraith - Measuring success: mason bees as an indicator of forest management quality

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69 Michelle Flenniken - Bee viruses

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68 Project Apis m. - Enhancing the Health of Honey Bees Through Research and Education

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67 Rich Hatfield - PNW Bumble Bee Atlas

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66 Dr. Sarah Lawson - The small carpenter bee and their Cinderella daughters

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65 Robert Coffin and Josh Loy - Teeing off with Monarch Butterflies

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64 Mike Rodia - Residential Beekeeping and the Law

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63 Lori Weidenhammer - Victory Gardens for Bees

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62 Sam Droege and the Bee School

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61 Dale Mitchell - Oregon's pesticide incidence reporting system

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60 Dr. Bob Peterson - Alfalfa leafcutting bees and mosquitos.

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59 Dr. Hollis Woodard - Bees in dynamic and extreme environments

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58 Pollinators and their People: The voices of Oregon Pollinator Week 2018

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57 Drs. Margaret Couvillon and Roger Schürch - Measuring bee habitat quality through honey bee dances

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56 Dr. Ramesh Sagili - How to make a lot of honey this year!

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55 Mimi Jenkins - Watermelon Pollination: How native bees affect watermelon crops

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54 Ron Miksha - Crop Pollination: Past, Present and Future

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53 Kelly Rourke - National Pollinator Week

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52 OSU Research Retinue - Mowing or mowing less: What helps the bees more?

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51 Heather Higo - Rearing your Own Queens

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50 Lincoln Best - Taxonomy with The Oregon Bee Atlas

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49 A $7 million investment in pollinator health by the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR)

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48 Travis Owen - The Amateur Anthecologist

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47 Briana Ezray - Mullerian mimicry and why telling bumble bee species apart by color can be hard.

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46 A Well-Curated Bee In A Museum Is Worth A Thousand Pictures

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45 Practicing Good Mason Bee Stewardship... The Bee Buddy Way

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44 John Gates - Making Nucleus Colonies

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43 Mark L. Winston - Listening to Bees

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42 OSU Bee Squad - Honey Bees and Conservation (Research Retinue)

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41 Rose Kachadoorian - What States Are Doing For pollinator Health

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40 Tom Landis - Monarch Butterflies in Southwestern Oregon

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39 Jeff Reardon - Bees in the Legislature

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38 Dr. Ramesh Sagili - The Elusive Secrets of Honey Bee Nutrition and Controlling Varroa Mites

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37 Alison Center - North American Butterfly Association

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36 John Gruszka - Independence From Packaged Honey Bees: the Case of Saskatchewan, Canada

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35 BEEvent - Oregon's Pollinator Conference

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34 Dr. Gail Langellotto - What Pollinators Need From Gardeners in Urban Habitats

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33 Mehmet Ali Döke - How Honey Bees Survive The Winter

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32 Matt Arrington - Highbush Blueberries and Honeybees

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31 Doug Sponsler - The Risk of Pesticides to Honey Bees and Ecotoxicology

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30 Steve Frank - Navigating Urban Environments For Pollinators

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29 Alan Turanski - Saving The Bee Through Pollinator Awareness

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28 Al Shay - Urban Landscapes for People and Pollinators

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27 Sarah Johnson - On Bumblebee Watch with Citizen Scientists

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26 Skyler Burrows - Bringing Taxonomy to Citizen Scientists

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25 Dr. Dewey M. Caron - Managing and Preventing Varroa Mites

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24 Kristen Healy - Mosquito Abatement and Pollinators

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23 George Hansen - Beekeeper Built Bee Habitat

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22 Oregon Flora Project - Making A New Natural Resource

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21 Dr. Jim Rivers - Seeing The Forest For The Bees

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20 Erin Udal - Bringing Bees To The People

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19 David Phipps - Golf Courses as Pollinator Habitat

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18 Lynn Royce – Bees in The Trees

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17 Ellie Andrews – The Sociology of Pollinator Health

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16 Ellen Topitzhofer – Honey Bee Parasite Spread in Pollination

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15 Jen Holt - How to Become a Master Beekeeper

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14 Jessa Kay Cruz - Creating Pollinator Habitat Around Farms

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13 Ruth Marsh - Repairing Bees with Art

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12 Scott MacIvor - The Bees of Toronto

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11 Laura Taylor - Pollinator Restoration in Soil and Water Conservation Districts

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10 Aimee Code - Using Pesticides around Bee Habitat

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09 Dr. Meghan Milbrath – Northern Bee Breeding Network

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08 Sujaya Rao - Contrary Perspective to Native Bee Declines in Agricultural Landscapes: The Willamette Valley Experience

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07 Sarah Common – Hive for Humanity: Keeping People Healthy with Bees

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06 Dr. Dave Smitley - Protecting Pollinators in Urban Landscapes

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05 Mike Burgett - Honeybee Pollination Markets

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04 Dr. David Lowenstein - Wild Pollinators in Urban Areas

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03 Dr. Joseph Wilson - The Bees in Your Backyard

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02 Dr. Elaine Evans - Citizen Science and Surveying Bumblebees

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01 Francis Ratnieks - The Benefits of Bees in Urban Areas

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