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Honey Bee Obscura Podcast

The weekly podcast exploring the joys, challenges, and curiosities of keeping honey bees. Hosted by Dr. Jim Tew and produced by Jeff Ott, Honey Bee Obscura delivers short, focused conversations that dive into the details of beekeeping—from practical how-tos to quirky observations. Perfect for learning something new on the way to the apiary, at home, or wherever your bees take you.

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Exploring Honey Prices

18 mins; June 02, 2022

Dealing With Feisty Bees

18 mins; May 26, 2022

How To Plan Raised Pollinator Beds

18 mins; May 19, 2022

Final Thoughts on Package Bee Season

16 mins; May 12, 2022

Installing Package Bees in Inclement Weather

20 mins; May 05, 2022

Planning A Successful Bee Association Meeting

21 mins; April 28, 2022

Finding Bee Yards

18 mins; April 21, 2022

Supplemental Spring Feeding of Honey Bees

20 mins; April 14, 2022

Adding Package Bees to Deadout Equipment

18 mins; April 07, 2022

Capturing and Hiving Swarms

22 mins; March 31, 2022

Swarm Traps aka Bait Hives

16 mins; March 24, 2022

More Listener Questions

22 mins; March 17, 2022

Mind Your Bees Wax

16 mins; March 10, 2022

Dealing With Old Equipment

14 mins; March 03, 2022

Make Money with Honey Bees

17 mins; February 24, 2022

Raising Non-Graft Queens

15 mins; February 17, 2022

Late Winter Colony Management

17 mins; February 10, 2022

Going Big Time - Large Observation Hives

18 mins; February 03, 2022

Let's Discuss Small Observation Hives

19 mins; January 27, 2022

Bee Beards - Part 2

17 mins; January 20, 2022

Bee Beards - Part 1

19 mins; January 13, 2022

Flower Garden Site Prep

17 mins; January 06, 2022

New Year - New Equipment... Assembly Required?

16 mins; December 30, 2021

Planning your Gardens for Bees

18 mins; December 23, 2021

Considering the Bee Culture December Issue

16 mins; December 16, 2021

Considering Packages or Nucs for the Spring

17 mins; December 09, 2021

New Swarms On Deadout Comb?

16 mins; December 02, 2021

Artificial Honeycomb

16 mins; November 25, 2021

What's That Smell - Part 2: The Good

18 mins; November 18, 2021

What's That Smell? - Part 1: The Bad

18 mins; November 11, 2021

Small-Scale Pollination Contracts

16 mins; November 04, 2021

Bottom Boards

16 mins; October 28, 2021

Preparing for Winter

19 mins; October 21, 2021

Beekeeper Waxing & Waning

12 mins; October 14, 2021

Invasive Plants

12 mins; October 07, 2021

Fall Feeding (041)

16 mins; September 30, 2021

Winter Packing

17 mins; September 23, 2021

"Winter Is Coming" aka Planning For Winter

17 mins; September 16, 2021

Combining (Joining) Weak Colonies

14 mins; September 09, 2021

Dealing With Neighbor's Yellowjacket Problems

16 mins; September 02, 2021

Dealing With Combs After Extracting

20 mins; August 26, 2021

Ugly (Mean) Bees

13 mins; August 19, 2021

How Are My Bees?

13 mins; August 12, 2021

Planting for Bees

13 mins; August 05, 2021

Troubling Questions

15 mins; July 29, 2021

European Foul Brood

15 mins; July 22, 2021

Hot Summers and Bees

15 mins; July 15, 2021

A Close Look At The 2020-2021 BIP Annual Loss Survey

18 mins; July 08, 2021

Dealing With Neighbors (028)

12 mins; July 01, 2021

Euthanizing Honey Bees (027)

11 mins; June 24, 2021

Beekeeping Good Neighbor Golden Rules

13 mins; June 17, 2021

Package Queens

10 mins; June 10, 2021

Questions from 1910

13 mins; June 03, 2021

Tanging - What's All That Banging? (023)

12 mins; May 27, 2021

Plastic & Wooden Packages (022)

15 mins; May 20, 2021

Old Comb

15 mins; May 13, 2021

Spring Inspections

18 mins; May 06, 2021

Honey Bees Sting! (019)

16 mins; April 29, 2021

Eating Comb Honey (018)

13 mins; April 22, 2021

Pollen Traps (017)

16 mins; April 15, 2021

Nectar Flows (016)

15 mins; April 08, 2021

Robbing! (015)

16 mins; April 01, 2021

Swarms (014)

16 mins; March 25, 2021

Dealing with Bee Space (013)

14 mins; March 18, 2021

Outyards (012)

15 mins; March 11, 2021

Requeening

14 mins; March 04, 2021

Smokers and Smoker Fuel

14 mins; February 25, 2021

Packages and Nucs

20 mins; February 18, 2021

Hive Finishes (008)

14 mins; February 11, 2021

Protective Gear

13 mins; February 04, 2021

The Good Things About Beekeeping

12 mins; January 28, 2021

Bee Equipment We Use (005)

20 mins; January 21, 2021

Mid-Winter Inspections (004)

15 mins; January 14, 2021

Off Season Storage and Chores (003)

14 mins; January 10, 2021

Emergency Winter Feeding (002)

12 mins; January 10, 2021

Honey Bee Obscura - An Introduction (001)

1 min; January 10, 2021

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