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About Bees, Culture & Curiosity
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Apimondia: The World's Bee Meeting
Season 5 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Apimondia: The World's Bee Meeting This short introduction to Apimondia will be of interest to…
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Beekeeping along Canada's Sunshine Coast
Season 5 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Beekeeping along Canada's Sunshine Coast Canada has a sunshine coast. That's where I met up with…
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Chile for Avocado Pollination, Queen Production, and Adventure
Season 5 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Chile for Avocado Pollination, Queen Production, and Adventure Today's guest is Francisco Rey, a…
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Buckwheat: Our Favourite August Honey Plant
Season 5 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Buckwheat: Our Favourite August Honey Plant Buckwheat is quirky. Both the plant and the honey. We…
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Laura Sends us Deep into the Beekeeping Groove
Season 5 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Laura Sends us Deep into the Beekeeping Groove This wide-ranging beekeeping podcast takes us from…
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World's Most Interesting Bee Museum - and more...
Season 5 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – World's Most Interesting Bee Museum - and more... I am just back from a quick trip to central…
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Bees, Greenhouses, and 18-hour Work Days
Season 5 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees, Greenhouses, and 18-hour Work Days It takes 18-hour workdays to keep a greenhouse that…
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Ask Me Anything for July 2025
Season 5 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Ask Me Anything for July 2025 Ask me anything. I start off with a powerful phrase you can always…
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July's Best Honey Plant
Season 5 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – July's Best Honey Plant What's July's best honey plant? In much of the northern hemisphere, if…
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Beekeeping on Canada Day
Season 5 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Beekeeping on Canada Day It's Canada Day, up Canada way, on the first day of July. We talk bees…
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Slovenia, the Country that Buzzes
Season 4 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Slovenia, the Country that Buzzes In preparation for a trip to central Europe, I have been…
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Late Spring Beekeeping
Season 4 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Late Spring Beekeeping Rain brings flowers, flowers bring nectar, nectar brings bees, beekeepers…
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Judging your Honey
Season 4 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Judging your Honey Today we judge your honey. Not by flavour, but by the tiniest nuances of…
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Spring Honey Bees
Season 4 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Spring Honey Bees Bidzina and Ron talk about the status of their hives, leading to a discussion…
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Alberta Native Bees in Trouble
Season 4 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Alberta Native Bees in Trouble We chat about the troubles facing native bees with Alberta Native…
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Thousands and Thousands and Thousands of Queens
Season 4 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Thousands and Thousands and Thousands of Queens Dedicated to the memory of Florida queen breeder…
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Bee Thievery
Season 4 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bee Thievery Pay close attention and you may pick up a few clues to reduce honey bee hive thefts…
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A Rose among the Bees
Season 4 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Rose among the Bees With Rose, our conversation starts with a bee walking on Ron's neck…
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Philosophy of Bee Happiness
Season 4 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Philosophy of Bee Happiness With Daniel Miksha, we try to unravel the philosophy of happiness. We…
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Season 4 Trailer
Season 4 Trailer: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Season 4 Trailer A quick preview of Season 4! How will we treat for mites? Is spring honey any good…
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Arizona's Monica King
Season 3 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Arizona's Monica King Our best podcast so far. We chat with Monica King, who rescues Africanized…
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Spring feeding
Season 3 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Spring feeding Before we look at spring feeding strategies in the northern part of the northern…
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Packages or Overwintered Colonies?
Season 3 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Packages or Overwintered Colonies? We begin this episode – which is mostly about honey production…
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The Bee Shop
Season 3 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bee Shop We visit Robert McBane and his brilliant beautiful bee supply shop in Calgary…
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The Bees are Still Dying
Season 3 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees are Still Dying The bees are still dying. It's looking really bad for the survival of…
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The Bees are Dying Part 2
Season 3 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees are Dying Part 2 The bees are dying. In part 2 of this 2-part podcast, we look at how…
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The Bees are Dying - Part 1
Season 3 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees are Dying Part 1 The bees are dying. In part 1 of this 2-part podcast, we look at how…
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Winter Bee News Roundup
Season 3 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Winter Bee News Roundup This episode covers some recent papers and news, including the discovery…
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Growing up on a Bee Farm
Season 3 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Growing up on a Bee Farm We talk with Monica King, who captures wayward Africanized Honey Bees in…
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Winter Beekeeping in Alberta
Season 3 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Winter Beekeeping in Alberta Ah, winter in the near-Arctic! It's amazing that honey bees can…
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Waxing with Jessie
Season 3 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Waxing with Jessie We meet Jessie Smulders at Worker and Hive to learn about beeswax, candles…
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Season 3: Trailer
Season 3 Episode 0: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Season 3 Trailer The start of a new year and a new podcast season! We take a quick look at the…
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Starting the New Year Right!
Season 2 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Starting the New Year Right! We bring in the 2025 beekeeping year with Bill Rayment, an Alberta…
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Bye bye '24
Season 2 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bye Bye '24 Our penultimate 2024 episode involves two very big 2024 news stories (Murder Hornets…
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The Christmas Gift
Season 2 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Christmas Gift Thanks to Langstroth's Mom's Christmas gift to the world, we celebrate L.L…
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The Shortest Day
Season 2 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Shortest Day What do bees do on the shortest day of the year? We take a quick look at the…
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Granulated Honey
Season 2 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Granulated Honey This episode focuses on granulation, with special attention to four keys for…
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About Bees Mailbox
Season 2 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – About Bees Podcast We begin with a bit of talk about road trips and especially an eleven-hour…
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What would Plato do with Drones?
Season 2 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – What would Plato do with Drones? Ah, yes. Our philosopher-contributor is back. Daniel Miksha…
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HiveIQ: A Smart Hive from Australia
Season 2 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – HiveIQ: A Smart Hive from Australia In this episode, we welcome Victor Croker of Australia's…
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Saskatchewan Honey Crops & Westcoast Canadian Queen Rearing with Steve Clifford
Season 2 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Saskatchewan Honey Crops & Westcoast Canadian Queen Rearing with Steve Clifford Steve Clifford's…
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Bee Cube: An Apiary in a Box
Season 2 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – BeeCube: An Apiary in a Box with Herman van Reekum We discuss an unusual housing concept for…
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Bumble Bees 101 with Mathias Fenton
Season 2 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bumble Bees 101 with Mathias Fenton We welcome biology instructor Mathias Fenton of Mount Royal…
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Chief Crowchild and the Bees
Season 2 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Chief Crowchild and the Bees Chief Lee Crowchild of Tsuut'ina Nation is a member of a family…
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Season 2: Trailer
Season 2 Trailer: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Season 2 Season 2 of About Bees opens today! We look ahead at the next 12 episodes that has guests…
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Bees by the Number
Season 1 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees by the Number In this episode, we manage to jump around the bee world by using the numbers…
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Moving Bees, part 2
Season 1 Episode 11: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Moving Bees 2 We begin this podcast with the capture of a swarm, with details described in real…
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Moving Bees, part 1
Season 1 Episode 10: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Moving Bees, part 1 Part 1 of Moving Honey Bees. We look at the ways beekeepers have carted…
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Honey Harvest Time
Season 1 Episode 9: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Honey Harvest Time After a few minutes pondering how some carpenter ants in Florida choose the…
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Dogs That Smell Bees
Season 1 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Dogs That Smell We talk with Rose-Anne Bouffard, a bee enthusiast who trains dogs to find and…
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Cameroon to Canada - Patrick's Bee Journey
Season 1 Episode 7: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Cameroon to Canada - Patrick's Bee Journey In this episode of About Bees, we are joined by…
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Sweet Clover: America's other weed
Season 1 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Sweet Clover: America's other weed Legal. Illegal. Legal. Illegal again. Sweet clover has quite a…
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Some Bee Buzz
Season 1 Episode 5: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Some Bee Buzz In this episode, we jump from moving bees from Alberta to British Columbia to…
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The Bees' Ears
Season 1 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees' Ears In this episode, we discover that insects, including bees, can hear. They have…
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Do Bees Feel Pain?
Season 1 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Do Bees Feel Pain? We often expect to be on the receiving end of pain - whether from a broken…
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Tolstoy and the Robber Bees
Season 1 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Tolstoy and the Robber Bees Leo Tolstoy was a beekeeping fanatic. He even managed to work his…
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Myths and Legends
Season 1 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Myths and Legends What we think we know might not be true. Did you know that Einstein once warned…
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About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Introduction
The About Bees, Culture & Curiosity podcast explores the world of bees (and their entomological cousins) with ample attention to culture and the curiosities of…