Season 1 Episode 5: About Bees, Tradition & Interest Podcast – Some Bee Buzz
In as of late’s podcast episode, we soar from transferring bees between Alberta and British Columbia to analyzing a up to date paper concerning the ecology of disappearing bee species. Then, in fact, we chat about Beyonce and Hex Artwork.
Bidzina describes stipulations in British Columbia and why he have shyed away from going farther into the mountains to make fireweed honey however as a substitute cut up his colonies, doubling their quantity. He tells us somewhat about transferring his bees again to Alberta, using throughout the night time with a trailer throughout the Rocky Mountains. In Alberta, he loses maximum of the ones hives over the following wintry weather. However two survivor colonies are resilient and become sturdy colonies.
We speak about casting off honey by way of letting the supers keep within the apiary, separated from the hives, permitting the bees to flow out of the honey supers and again to their properties, forsaking the honey. Bidzina additionally mentions nuisance bees at a marriage held the place he was once extracting.
Then, Ron talks about his two yard hives. Each had been replacements for colonies that died over wintry weather. One was once a bundle, the opposite a nuc. It was once unexpected to peer that there was once little or no distinction in energy between them by way of mid-July.
We flow to speaking about trains and the large dimension of Canada. It’s a 7,500-kilometre street go back and forth from Pacific to Atlantic. Perhaps it must be tackled by way of educate, now not automobile or aircraft. Trains are just right.
We discover a up to date paper about land use adjustments (farming, urbanization) which are associated with declining populations of local and imported bees. Throughout an enormous temperate house, scientists widely divided landscapes into forested, herbaceous, agricultural, and concrete. A type of spaces had been higher for bee well being and survival. The effects shocked me somewhat. We speak about the find out about’s effects. See: “Land use adjustments related to declining honey bee well being throughout temperate North The united states” https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd867
Different information bits come with the cave in of insect species variety, which leads us to surprise concerning the 2024 reversal of a ban on neonicotinoids in England and the consequences for bee survival. Then we loosen up with a discuss with to Beyonce (the Queen Bey) and a look at a paper at the incidence of bees all the way through the historical past of artwork – have you ever spotted that hexagons appear to be far and wide we glance those day?
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