Bee Health and Scientific Updates in 2019

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January 9, 2020

Bee Health and Scientific Updates in 2019

Scientific research is crucial for understanding why bees are dying and how humans can help them thrive again. The challenge with research, whether it’s about bees or humans, is that living things don’t exist in hermetically sealed environments. Bee health is impacted by a variety of factors that interact with […]
January 7, 2020

It’s Showtime! January is the time for beekeeping education

You can’t keep a good beekeeper down! Not even when the weather turns cool and the skies turn gray. January is the time for beekeeping education. So, here are two opportunities just around the corner that will get you and your students fired up. 2020 North American Honey & Pollinator […]
January 5, 2020

Tommy Baker: ‘I know every periodic table pun on the internet’

Tommy Baker Q&A: ‘I know every periodic table pun on the internet’ Beepods project manager and sales associate Tommy Baker has the formula for success in STEM fields. He began his career as a chemist and then moved into education teaching AP Chemistry and STEM Education classes. Tommy wrote an […]
December 26, 2019

Bee Folklore for The Darkest of Days

Last weekend was the winter solstice, the so-called shortest day of the year (in terms of sunlight, at least.) It’s a spiritual time of year for cultures past and present, with an emphasis on the themes of death and renewal; in Celtic traditions, this is the time of year our […]
December 13, 2019

Hive Mind: Humans Aren’t So Different From Bees

Whenever you see a bee buzzing around outside, do you ever think, “Hey pal, we aren’t so different after all?” The term “hive mind” has been in use for decades to describe the behavior of bees, however, we see it commonly used to describe our habits on the Internet as […]