The Beekeeper's Corner

POSTED MAR 31, 2026
LENGTH 1:19:53

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Parasite Host Relationships- Dr David Peck, Placing Swarm Traps – You don’t really need a ladder, What’s Blooming in your direct neighborhood – using AI, Don’t feed Pollen Subs in Spring, Honey BBQ Recipe, Mites and Viruses, Local Hive Report, Closing Comments

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

03:54 | Roundtable 1: Dr. David Peck talk on Parisite Host Relationships from the Midwest Bee Expo

14:42 | Roundtable 2: Placing Swarm Traps – You don’t really need a ladder.

23:59 | Roundtable 3: Use AI to learn what is blooming in your direct neighborhood

36:18 | Roundtable 4: I am not onboard with feeding pollen supplements in spring – in fact, it is substandard food in comparison to fresh pollen

46:45 | Roundtable 5: Honey BBQ Recipe from the ABF Honey Queen Program

49:53 | Roundtable 6: Mites that perforate cappings for Varroa Hygiene, may also be doing it because of Virus Detection

57:56 | Local Hive Report

75:03 – 79:52 | Closing Comments

Link |  Evidence for virus-associated recapping behaviour in honey bees (Apis mellifera) with differential detection sensitivity between varroa-resistant and non-resistant colonies

POSTED MAR 15, 2026
LENGTH 1:00:50

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Record Keeping with AI, Tracking Flight Paths of Bees, Sweeping Gadget for Honey Harvesting, Local Hive Report, Closing Comments

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

05:26 | Roundtable 1: Record Keeping – Using AI to track your hive inspections and making it your personal assistant

22:26 | Roundtable 2: No info for Norroa at Midwest Expo

25:52 | Roundtable 3: Fight Paths of bees tracked with a drone – results and how they did it

38:35 | Roundtable 4: A gadget for sweeping bees off of capped honey super frames

46:28 | Local Hive Report

57:20 – 60:50 | Closing Comments

Link |  Precise, individualized foraging flights in honeybees revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking

Link |  Bee sweeping device for removing errant honeybees from capped comb

POSTED FEB 03, 2026
LENGTH 0:55:55

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A first look at the novel dsRNA product Norroa entering the Marketplace

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

04:37 | Norroa

53:59 – 55:55 | Closing Comments

Link |  Greenlight BioScience Norroa Website

Link |  RNA interference as a next-generation control method for suppressing Varroa destructor reproduction in honey bee (Apis mellifera) hive

Link |  Genes important for survival or reproduction in Varroa destructor identified by RNAi

Link |  In Silico Analysis of Potential Off-Target Effects of a Next-Generation dsRNA Acaricide for Varroa Mites (Varroa destructor) and Lack of Effect on a Bee-Associated Arthropod

Link |  Safety Data Sheet (Accessed 2/1/26)

Link |  Mann Lake page for Norroa

Link |  Norroa Product Website – Norroa.com

POSTED FEB 01, 2026
LENGTH 1:15:00

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PennState Beginner Book, Not a BigAG shill, Why honey separates and what to do about it, Follow up on Mushrooms for Bees, Listener Mail on Condensing Method

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

06:27 | Roundtable 1: PennState Beginner Book Recommendation

11:10 | Roundtable 2: Not a Shill, for big Ag

24:30 | Roundtable 3: Striations in Honey – what causes honey to separate in storage

36:16 | Roundtable 4: What happened to the Mushroom guy research – Paul Stamets

46:56 | Roundtable 5: Follow up on Condensing hives

1:02:47 | Donna Trabithk Grandma’s Honey Raisin Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

1:10:20 – 1:15:00 | Closing Comments

Link |  PennState Extension Beekeeping Basics Book for becoming a successful beekeeper.

Link |  Extracts of Polypore Mushroom Mycelia Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees

Link |  Fungi Perfecti website – Paul Stamets

Link |  Episode 150- Hi I’m Paul, Coverage of Paul Stamets work with mushrooms (7 years ago)

Link |  Episode 37 – This is cool – BKcorner coverage of Dr. Teal work with Small Hive Beetles (13 years ago)

Link |  Donna Trabithik’s Grandma Honey Raisin Cookies

POSTED JAN 25, 2026
LENGTH 1:23:14

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Plastic Foundation Corners, Honey on the go packets, Dealing with Cold Temps, Honey Tarts Romania, Winter Checks, Buckfast Bees, Sugar Variant Feeding Study, Closing Comments

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

06:03 | Roundtable 1: Cutting Corners out of Plastic Foundation

17:35 | Roundtable 2: Honey Packets for Honey on the Go

22:12 | Roundtable 3: Considering very cold temperatures and bees overwintering

27:34 | Roundtable 4: “Honey Tarts”  a beekeeper in Romania showing how he feeds bees in winter

30:49 | Roundtable 5: Introduction to the new Oxalic Acid product ApiBioxal RTU

40:57 | Roundtable 6: Checking on bees in winter – discerning if they are alive

52:19 | Roundtable 7: Buckfast bees, what would it be like to use them in the apiary?

56:36 | Topic 1: Study – Sucrose, glucose, and fructose preference in honeybees and their effects on food digestibility

1:14:25 – 1:23:14 | Closing Comments

Link |  Sucrose, glucose, and fructose preference in honeybees and their effects on food digestibility

Link |  Honey Tarts

Link |  Chester County Beekeepers Annual Conference

Link |  Honey.com – National Honey Board recipe for Honey Cough Syrup (and popsicles)

Link | Grange Apiary – Regina Rhoa, Collegeville PA YouTube Channel

Bob Kloss Update, Lip Balm, Washing Protective Equipment, Honey Cough Syrup, Glass dispenser, Bee fondant, Harvesting Uncapping Device, 10 years of Managed Mentoring, Local Hive Report

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda – Update from Bob Kloss

09:49 | Roundtable 1: Making Lip Balm

21:07 | Roundtable 2: Washing Bee Equipment – During Winter

41:00 | Roundtable 3: Honey Cough Syrup Recipe, Courtesy of honey.com

46:35 | Roundtable 4: Bottom Style Glass Honey Dispenser

53:24 | Roundtable 5: Making Bee Fondant – Recipe and recount of outcome

71:38 | Roundtable 6: Manual Metal Uncapping Stand

75:26 | Topic 1: Reflecting on 10 years of managed mentoring for getting started for beekeeping

85:16 | Local Hive Report

88:18 – 94:21 | Closing Comments

Link |  National Honey Board most popular recipes – Honey Cough Syrup

Link |  National Honey Board – Honey Cough Syrup Coughsicles

Link |  DC Honeybees Fondant Video

Link |  BKCorner Recipe for Fondant

Link |  Abelo Manual Uncapping Knife

Link |  Store video demonstrating how the manual uncapping knife might be used.

Link |  Beekeeper video showing how to uncap a real frame with the Abelo Manual Uncapping Knife

Link |  BKCorner Mocha Mint Lip Balm Recipe – circa 2016

Link |  Managed Mentoring – Getting Started in Beekeeping

Special Episode – Ventilating Hives vs Condensing Hives, should we be transitioning?

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

2:55 – 93:44 | Condensing Hives

Links | Etienne Tardiff – North of 60 Beekeeping YouTube Channel – A simply amazing resource about thermoregulation and other things. Just go there and watch the videos (with a cup of coffee) if you want a real understanding of how bees behave in colder climates as well as thermoregulation

Links |  Understanding the condensing hive (Betterbee with Bill Hesbach)

Links | The problem to the solution of winter moisture (Bee Culture)

Links | Ventilating vs. Condensing Winter Colony (Dewey Caron)

Links | Honey bee colonies maintain CO2 and temperature regimes in spite of change in hive ventilation characteristics | Apidologie

Links | Overwintering in North American domesticated honeybees (Apis mellifera) causes mitochondrial reprogramming while enhancing cellular immunity

Links | Honeybee Colony Thermoregulation – Regulatory Mechanisms and Contribution of Individuals in Dependence on Age, Location and Thermal Stress

Links | Wintering Honey Bees (Clarence Collison – Bee Culture)

Links | 2020.10.27 Wintering Bees (Bill Hesbech Youtube video, Middleses County Beekeepers Association)

Links | Temperature Duality: The Heterothermic Mastery of Honey Bees

POSTED NOV 30, 2025
LENGTH 1:30:29

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The art of reading honeybee frames from photos, Costco Honey, Recount of real world vaporizations – Cartridges and Masks, One on One with Emilia Burnham, the 2025 ABF Princess, The Initiation of a Second Podcast for 2026

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

02:45 | Roundtable 1: Reading honeybee frames from photographs – The Art and Fallacy of the practice

21:40 | Roundtable 2: Exploring Costco Honey Program and Sales

36:20 | Roundtable 3: Treating Bees with our new IntaVap Compact Oxalic Acid Vaporizer – Cartridges for protection

56:29 | Roundtable 4: One on One with the 2025 ABF Honey Princess Emilia Burnham

84:00 – 90:29 | Closing Comments – A second, new beekeeping podcast, is in the planning statges

Link |  Reddit forum discussing the variations of ‘local’ honey regions from Costco

Link |  Costco’s former regional honey program from 2019

Link |  The American Beekeeping Federation (ABF) Honey Queen Program

POSTED NOV 16, 2025
LENGTH 1:39:33

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One on One with Adam Hickman of Foxhound Bee Company EPISODE GUIDE

https://www.foxhoundbeecompany.com

AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE – Transcript Version

00:00 – 1:39.33 | One on One with Adam Hickman of Foxhound Bee Company

POSTED NOV 09, 2025
LENGTH 1:16:10

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Collecting Smoker Fuel, Beehive Insulation, Sleeping Bees, Small Hive Beetle Threat, Avoiding Tropi Incursion In NJ, Cricket Temperature Gauge, Fall Feeding, Honey Cookie Recipe, Local Hive Report, Right Arm Troubles

00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News

00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda

04:49 | Roundtable 1: Collecting smoker fuel (Pine Needles)

08:50 | Roundtable 2: Insulation of Beehives for Winter (timing and process)

17:39 | Roundtable 3: Sleeping Beauties.  Recognizing sleeping bees in a beehive, behavior and appearance

27:31 | Roundtable 4: Small Hive Beetles – are they becoming a bigger menance?

37:44 | Roundtable 5: Tropilaelaps Avoidance – NJ Action to prevent incursion into US

41:36 | Roundtable 6: Crickets – they can guide you on the temperature outside

45:25 | Roundtable 7: Reflection on Fall Feeding

56:14 | Roundtable 8: A cookie recipe – From molasses cookies to honey cookies (David Lewis)

61:15 | Local Hive Report

69:37 – 76:10 | Closing Comments

Link |  Slumber in a cell: honeycomb used by honey bees for food, brood, heating… and sleeping

Link |  From Molasses Cookies, to Honey Cookies (Don Lewis)