PolliNation | A Pollinator Health Podcast

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2024-08-31

  264 - Could changes in pesticide hazard to bees be detected across a state?

Bees are exposed to pesticide hazards in a variety of ways. Estimating how hazards to bees are changing over time, across an area as large as a state, is a daunting prospect. This week we hear about an attempt to estimate changes in hazards in a new pa...
2024-08-19

  263 - National Pollen Phenology Wheel

Beekeepers often have a sense of periods of intense nectar flows, but it is a lot more difficult to assess pollen flows. In this episode we talk with Priya Chakrabarti Basu from Mississippi State University who talks about a new initiative to provide b... 		  Andony Melathopoulos author
2024-08-12

  262 - Buddleja and the bees

Butterfly bush is a hardy shrub that pollinators love. But under certain situations it can become invasive, which has led to laws to limit the sale to sterile varieties and interspecific hybrids. But there is a question of whether the hybrids are reall...
2024-07-13

  261 - Making observations on ground nesting bees

While roughly 70% of bee species are ground nesting, we know very little about the nesting biology of anything more than a handful of species. In this episode we hear from Dr. Jordan Kueneman and his project GNBees to generate more data from the public...
2024-05-20

  Hornet invasion in the UK (and how they are fighting back)

The Yellow-Legged Hornet has landed in the US southeast. The hornet is originally from Asia, but is has spread widely into Europe. This week we hear from Maggie Gill, a senior scientist with the National Bee Unit in the UK tells about the innovative me... 		  Andony Melathopoulos author
2024-04-21

  259 - Washington State Update (so much news)

This episode we catch up with Katie Buckley the Pollinator Health Coordinator for Washington State Department of Agriculture. She tells us about two new pollinator bills that passed in the Washington Legislature, as well as the growing Washington Bee A... 		  Andony Melathopoulos author
2024-04-01

  258 - Tillamook Apiary and Garden Learning Center (aka there is more to Tillamook than cheese)

This week we hear about a remarkable initiative in Tillamook, Oregon. Known for its world famous dairy, its home to an industrious beekeeping club that is providing top-notch education to the region (and the thousands of people who come through it each... 		  Andony Melathopoulos author
2024-03-10

  257 - Lotmaria... the bee gut organism you have never heard of

Adult honey bees have a variety of organisms that live in their guts. Some are benign but some, like Nosema ceranae, can be pathogentic. In this episode we hear of  Courtney MacInnis' relentless pursuit of understanding the status of an organism you ha... 		  Andony Melathopoulos author
2024-02-19

  256 - Backyard Habitat Certification

In this episode we hear from Susie Peterson who is the co-manager of the very popular Backyard Habitat Certification Program in Oregon. The program is managed in partnership with Portland Audubon and can help you better design your backyard for biodive... 		  Andony Melathopoulos author
2024-02-05

  255 - Stay out! The perils of commercial bumble colonies to wild queens.

Bumble bee queens have been known to try and take over already established nests. Sometimes they manage to take over the nest and increase their own reproductive success. But according to new research from Heather Grab this is not what happens when a w... 		  Andony Melathopoulos author