Dr. Elina L. Niño is the Assistant Specialist in CE - Apiculture at the University of California Cooperative Extension

Her research interests are fluid and designed to address immediate needs of various agriculture stakeholder groups. Her primary responsibilities are in providing professional support and education to California's beekeepers, growers, pesticide  applicators, and other stakeholder groups. She teaches numerous beginner,  intermediate and advanced beekeeping workshops, the culmination of which has resulted in the establishment of the first ever California Master  Beekeeper Program serving beekeepers of California and neighboring  states. She is also currently working on the development of apiculture  education for veterinarians in collaboration with the Western Institute of Food Safety and Security (WIFFS). In  addition to teaching formal workshops I serve on various commodity  boards as a research liaison and adviser allowing me to directly impact  California Agriculture.

We Talk About:

How there's more than 20,000 species of bees!

Workers, drones, queen and how the colony works

What are the misnomers about bees?

Beekeeping and how to get started

The other pollinators and what they do

Are bees disappearing? What does this mean for us?

Sage Honey, Buckweat Honey, and Meadowfoam Honey

https://elninobeelab.ucdavis.edu/people/elina-nino

https://www.projectapism.org/

https://elninobeelab.ucdavis.edu/extension

https://cambp.ucdavis.edu/