Podcast archive

238 - National Pollinator Week 2023: It's National Pollinator Week next week. We hear about what makes effective public engagement on pollinators and of a new event in Vancouver, Washington, the Pollinator Festival. Links Mentioned: National Pollinator Week Pollinator Festival (Vancouver, WA, June 24)

237 - Bee Friendly Wine (Sokol Blosser): A number of Oregon vineyards are working together to enhance the habitat for bees (which includes over 700 species in Oregon). In this episode we visit one of those vineyards, Sokol Blosser Winery, and learn about how they ...

236 - Vanderpool - (Very) wet start to PNW beekeeping: This week we hear about what a cold and wet spring means for Pacific Northwest beekeepers (and the crops they pollinate). Harry Vanderpool has been a beekeeper for 25 years in the south hills of Salem, Oregon. Vanderpool ...

235 - Kulhanek - Washington's new Pollinator Health Research and Extension Program!: Dr. Kelly Kulhanek joined the WSU Bee Program as a postdoctoral researcher in 2020 and recently began a new role as Assistant Professor of Pollinator Research and Extension. She is building a program based on regular ...

234 - Goldstein - Colony strength and blueberry pollination: Lauren Goldstein is an M.S. student at the Michigan State University Department of Entomology. Supervised by Dr. Rufus Isaacs, she studies blueberry pollination by honey bees. Specifically, she is exploring the relationship between ...

233 - Hill - The Latest Buzz: Elizabeth (Izzy) Hill is the Pollinator Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, housed within the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS). In this role, she promotes collaboration and communication across USDA agencies, the ...

232 - Shannon - Do adjuvants influence bee health?: Brandon is a master's student researcher in the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program at TheOhio State University. He is originally from Jacksonville, Florida, and received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of ...

231 - Dean - Georgia bee license plate: Gail Dean is the co-chair of the Georgia Beekeepers Association Legislative Committee. She is the past president of the mighty Metro Atlanta Beekeepers Association and owner of Mountain Lake Honey (which makes the most delicious sourwood honey).

230 - Eeraerts - Stocking honey bee colonies for the landscape: Dr. Maxime Eeraerts is a FWO postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environment at Ghent University in Belgium. He talks this week about research he conducted as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Lisa DeVetter’s lab working on blueberry pollination at Washington State University. .

229 - Lu - Marker assisted selection 101 (for breeding honey bees): Robert Lu is currently going into his second year of his MSc Biology at the University of Alberta. His research topic is the parasitic honey bee mite Varroa destructor - specifically, he is interested in developing novel ...