Beekeeping Podcast Hyve Time™: Bee expert interviews and beekeeping news, tips, & discussions.

I sit down with Dr. Kaira Wagoner who has discovered a new, simpler, and more effective way to detect honey bee colonies that express varroa hygienic behavior through the detection of unhealthy brood via odors produced by the brood. This discovery will help the industry with her new business detect and identify much more easily and with higher precision, which colonies may manage diseases and pests like the varroa mite extremely effectively. Her process involves spraying compounds that have been synthetically processed to mimic the scents injured brood emit when attacked by mites and other pests and diseases. The hygienic colonies then open each cell up by chewing the capping off and within 2 hours you as a beekeeper will have an identifiable score for each colony.

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Contact Dr. Wagoner- email: [email protected]

Research Paper- https://www.hyperhyve.com/dr-kaira-wagoner-ubo-essay-hygienic-bees

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Stay up to date on the beekeeping world, and today we discuss the latest beekeeping news and talk about a new testing essay called UBO.

Today's news is brought to you by the Hyve TimeTM host "Mike James" who discusses some of the top stories from the last week on honey bees, beekeeping, and a weekly tip. Today's tip covers hummingbird feeders.

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We sit down with Peter Berthelsen again to talk about the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund which is helping people give gifts of pollination projects and free seeds for anyone looking to start a prairie to help benefit butterflies, honey bees, and other native pollinators. If you have a project in mind of over 2 acres this fund will send you FREE seeds. This is a must-listen-to find out how the program works and Peter discusses the benefits of the program as well as some of the other things the fund helps with as it pertains to pollinators.

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Mike James covers some of the news in the beekeeping world over the past week and if you haven't heard, Australia has its first detection of the Varroa Mite. Also covered is a new discovery on a microbe in the colony that is protecting the honey bee larvae.

Links on some of the news-

https://news.iu.edu/stories/2022/06/iub/releases/27-honey-bee-protective-microbe-study.html

https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurity/seasonal-pests-and-diseases/spring/varroa-mite?fbclid=IwAR0zwEpHCMdBaWQr9OeRoV3zjK81QbfATqkEumtG7En9GGYt3uuisZTKZu4&fs=e&s=cl

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Today we discuss beehive diseases, swarming, and honey supers-

Disease Management- EFB, AFB, Sacbrood, and Varroa. How to test for varroa before adding supers.

Swarming- Why do bees swarm and what is the difference between a supersede cell and a swarm cell.

Honey Supers- No more feeding the bees, top or bottom supering, and troubles associated with new supers and the queen excluders.

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