The J Jonah Jamecast is a biweekly podcast. We cover entertainment news (with a focus on animation) and read some awful fan fictions. Every episode we also feature a different creature to amaze and terrify you. So if you’re looking for something to punch up your daily commute, give us a subscribe!
Categories: TV & Film
Tags: animation, bugs, Comedy, Entertainment, entomology, fan, fiction, insects, j, Jamecast, jonah, Movies, Podcast, screenwriting
The podcast for the latest beekeeping news, information and entertainment for today’s beekeeper. Hosts Jeff Ott and Kim Flottum bring you interviews and commentary helping you become a more informed and knowledgeable beekeeper.
[Tom Theobald]In this episode, we welcome back Colorado beekeeper, Tom Theobald. Tom had a small commercial operation in Colorado in the late 70’s, running up to 200 or so colonies when he first started using two queen colonies. The biology of running two queens in a colony does make sense if you use the technique Tom perfected, but the better you get, the more lifting you are going to do. His finished production hives had three deeps for brood production and seven mediums for honey storage. At the time, an average to strong colony in his part of Colorado would make about 70 pounds of honey in a season, Tom’s two queen colonies averaged between 240 and 270 pounds!
The advantages, beside huge honey crops, were that these colonies started with last year’s queen, and a new, second queen was added in early spring. When the season was over, the new queen almost always prevailed, thus starting the next season with a proven queen. Plus, with a foraging population as large as these colonies produced, there was a vast store house of pollen the next spring for that season’s buildup.
Two-queen honey production is becoming a lost art as it takes a lot of work, timing and an understanding of your area’s nectar flows. However, the payoff is big! If you have bees in a location with lots of forage and not too much varroa or pesticide pressure, this approach may work for you.
Tom and we would like to know if you or a beekeeper you know uses the two-queen approach. Let us know on our website!
Links and websites mentioned in this podcast:
– Our First Season Interview with Tom about Neonicotinoids: https://beekeepingtodaypodcast.com/tom-theobold-the-problem-with-neonics
– Honey Bee Obscura Podcast with Kim & Jim: http://honeybeeobscura.com
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Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com
This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!
We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for[2 Million Blossoms] your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum.
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We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com
Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com
Thank you for listening!
Podcast music: Young Presidents, “Be Strong”, Musicalman, “Epilogue”
Categories: Education, Leisure, Science
Tags: apiary, beeculture, beekeeper, Beekeeping, bees, beeswax, entomology, honey, honeybees, insects, jeffott, kimflottum, pollen, pollination
Friends talk about facts! The F.A.C.T.S. podcast drops very Wednesday and mini fact check episodes on Fridays. We discuss the strange and unusual, the weird and wonderful, the gross and the glorious.
Categories: Education, Society & Culture
Tags: conversation, Curiosity, death, facts, friends, insects
Professional Development without the suit and tie.
Tags: ants, bugs, business, Colony, edsheehan, entrepreneurship, exterminator, HR, insects, joesheehan, makingmoney, Money, mosquitoes, nature, pestcontrol, pestmanagement, pmp, pmpexam, Podcast, Rats, Roaches, smallbiz, smallbusiness, training, work
Natural Focus, presented by David Boag (international author, lecturer and wildlife photographer) celebrates the beauty of the natural world. David’s enthusiasm for creation comes out in every show he does and you are guarenteed to learn something new each time. [itunes pic]
Whilst some people encourage and feed creatures in their garden, others hate the same animal – which shows that humans are probably the strangest creatures on the planet.
Categories: Uncategorised
Tags: amphibians, animals, beauty, bird, environment, flowers, habitat, insects, landscapes, mammals, nature, photographer, photography, plants, Reptiles, wildlife
I’m Umberto Diecinove, I am a documentary photographer and a filmmaker. And – for a while now – I’ve been investigating the potential role of insects in the solution of some of the global challenges we’re currently facing.
To do this, I’ve been traveling around the world, taking photographs and talking to world experts, visionary entrepreneurs, activists and people working in the field.
Welcome to Get the Bug Podcast, where you can listen to the conversations I recorded during my journey.
Farming insects could reduce the agriculture need for land and overfishing in the oceans, but also lower greenhouse emissions and help smallholder farmers, in developing economies, to depend less on expensive imported feed.
So… what if insects are the next game changers?
Join me for this insightful conversation on the potential of insects to make the world a better place, and the lessons we can learn from nature to build a more sustainable future for generations to come.
Check out www.gtbpodcast.com for more details.
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Categories: Science, Society & Culture
Tags: bio fertilizer, biological control, circular economy, edible insects, entomology, environment, insect farming, insects, insects as feed, livestock welfare, local economy, natural diet, nutrition, women independence
The Beet started as the Epic Gardening Podcast, but has grown into a one-stop shop for plant lovers. Five days a week, we explore topics ranging from beginner gardening tips to in-depth discussions with industry and science experts. Here, we’ll open up new gardening horizons, inspire you to greater heights, share new and exciting discoveries in agriculture, and fill your mind with freshly-harvested information you can apply to your own gardening journey!
Categories: Education, Leisure
Tags: agriculture, amendments, annuals, aquaponics, backtoeden, Beekeeping, bees, beginnergardener, beneficialinsects, biennials, Biochar, birdies, birdiesbeds, birdiesgardenbeds, birdiesraisedbeds, bokashi, botanical, botanicalinterests, botany, CARROTS, chickens, companionplanting, compost, composting, containergardening, Crops, diseases, epicgardening, epichomestead, ericgardening, Fertilizer, flowers, Food, foodpreservation, foodscape, Fruit, fungi, gardendesign, gardening, germination, growingfood, Harvesting, herbs, homesteading, Horticulture, houseplants, hydroponics, insects, irrigation, Jacques, jacquesinthegarden, JADAM, kevinespiritu, landscaping, microgreens, milkweed, mulch, mycorrhizae, nativeplants, npk, perennials, Permaculture, Pests, plantdiseases, plantpests, plants, pollinators, propagating, raisedbeds, roots, seeds, seedstarting, soil, squarefootgardening, successionplanting, sustainability, thebeet, thebeetpodcast, Tomatoes, tools, trees, urbangardening, vegetable, vermicomposting, Weeding, weeds, worms