Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake
Bee Love Beekeeping podcast is for everyone who loves honey bees! Hobby Beekeepers, Sideline Beekeepers, Commercial Beekeepers, Wanna-Bee Beekeepers, or anyone who is planting flowers and other native plants to support honey bees and other pollinators. Bee Love Beekeeping podcast includes interviews with real beekeepers, the latest news on honey bees and beekeeping, the newest gadgets and beekeeping inventions, plus fun stories about crazy things that happen in the bee yard. Hosted by Eric Bennett, Bee Love is a fun, informative way to connect with other honey bee lovers.
Episodes
What happens when your bee colonies get so big people think you’re using AI in their photos?
And what happens when the honey sold as “local” turns out to be anything but?
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This episode dives into both, with Debbie Klughers of Long Island sharing her secrets for building powerhouse...
What do NASA astronauts and backyard beekeepers have in common? They both know that honey bees don’t always follow the rules!
This episode of Bee Love Beekeeping starts with a wild trip into space before welcoming Ben Cooper, a Pennsylvania beekeeper with more than 50 years of experience.
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Honey harvesting without the sticky mess? Yes, please! 🐝
On this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, Eric Bennett chats with Simon Mildred of Hivekeepers, an Australian innovator making honey extraction easier with clever reusable cassettes and a compact honey harvester. Less cleanup, less fuss, and more time enjoying the bees and their sweet stuff!
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What do you get when you combine a French beekeeper, illegal rooftop beehives in Manhattan, a legendary bee venom pioneer, and a healthy dose of curiosity? One seriously sweet episode of Bee Love Beekeeping!
Host & beekeeper Eric Bennett, chats with Jean-François La Rivière, a beekeeper and apitherapy expert living in southwestern France, who shares the wild story of sneaking honey bees onto a New York City rooftop—black ...
What happens when a surfer, a swarm of honey bees, and a wildfire-prone corner of Southern California collide? You get one heck of a beekeeping story!
Eric Bennett sits down with Eli Lichter-Mark, a small commercial beekeeper managing hundreds of hives around Topanga and Malibu. Eli shares how he went from catching swarms and repeatedly killing off his colonies to building a real bee business—complete with forklifts, flatbeds...
It’s episode 100!! And we’re celebrating with a whole lot of beekeeping, a whole lot of bees, and a guest who knows that being a beekeeper is basically a full-time workout—with honey supers instead of dumbbells!
Ryan Griffeth returns to the show to talk winter bee prep, managing hives across Connecticut’s wildly different microclimates, and what it really takes to keep colonies healthy when the temperatures...
How To: Best way to find lost hive tools (she has 30 and they're all missing)!
What do you do when you love beekeeping, make your living with bees, and your body has decided it would really rather you not get stung? You apparently keep going!
This week we head to Scotland to meet full-time beekeeper Gael Wilkinson, who manages hives across the Kingdom of Fife while navigating unpredictable weather, Scottish seasons, and the occasion...
What happens when a teenager thinks Beekeeping is going to be an easy way to make some money?
In this episode, Jeremy Jensen shares the hilarious—and ultimately inspiring—story of how a fascination with bees turned into a full-blown career.
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From free hive removals and stashing colonies...
Grab your bee suit and get ready to meet royalty! In this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, we sit down with Delanie Craighead, the American Honey Queen, to find out what it’s really like to wear the crown, travel the country, and talk nonstop about honey bees.
Delanie shares how she became Queen, what goes into the competition, and some of the fun adventures that come with representing Beekeeping and Beekeepers across America.
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What do Picasso paintings, bee dance-offs, and a swarm living on a greasy crane have in common? They’re all part of the wonderfully weird world of honey bees and beekeeping!
In this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, we head to San Diego to meet Hilary Kearney of Girl Next Door Honey, who has turned 16 years of beekeeping experience into a creative, full-time business.
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Get ready to meet your match for Africanized bee expertise: third-generation beekeeper Monica King joins Bee Love Beekeeping host, Eric Bennett, to talk about wrangling "killer bees" in the 110-degree heat of southern Arizona.
Monica shares her beekeeping secrets for night-time hive removals under red lanterns (bees hate white light and love drama). She explains why "hangry" honey bees get meaner during droughts, and reveals her g...
Forget everything you thought you knew about swarm removal!
This episode is a full-on myth-busting session with SoCal's own Bee Man Dan, a rescuer who's handled over 21,000 colonies and trained in Beekeeping the unconventional way: through his Kung Fu school, under Daoist and Buddhist monks.
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The internet gospel says "find the...
What is "RNA Interference" and why are beekeepers calling it birth control for Varroa?
In this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, we're buzzing into two topics that every beekeeper should know about. First, we tackle the sticky subject of glyphosate (Roundup®) and what the latest research says about its surprising effects on honey bees—from disrupting their gut health to changing the way they forage.
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This week's beekeeping adventure takes us to Byron Bay, Australia, where Flow Hive co-inventor Cedar Anderson gives us the buzz on life after Varroa mites invaded the continent.
After a failed containment effort that saw thousands of hives burned, Australian beekeepers battled a brutal one-two punch of Varroa weakening colonies and small hive beetles finishing the job — sound familiar, fellow beekeepers?
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This week we're heading to Oregon to hang out with Joy and Eric McEwen, husband-and-wife beekeepers who've been at it together for 26 seasons and now tend around 650 colonies.
They coined the term "natural nest beekeeping" to describe their whole philosophy: foundationless, paint-free, plastic-free hives, protected with a homemade beeswax-linseed-pine rosin sealant, queens raised in-house by their own sister bees instead of grafted...
2 Million Americans are allergic to bee stings. Do you know what to do for yourself, or someone else, when they have a severe reaction?
We kick things off with eight bee sting facts that'll make you the most insufferable know-it-all at your next beekeeping club meeting. Did you know only lady bees can sting, that a detached stinger keeps pumping venom like a tiny horror-movie villain, or that bee venom is basically one superstar pr...
Buzzing with intrigue, this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping kicks off with spider venom playing mite assassin.
Then the real fun begins: UC Riverside's Genesis Chong and Owen Wagner dish on their scrappy "Californian" hybrid bees, tough, hybridized survivors that shrug off Varroa infestations that would tank a typical commercial colony.
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Yappy: "This will get me excommunicated from the bee community!"
Firefighter by day, bee-whisperer by everything else — Yappy BeeMan joins the show fresh off a job (complete with a couple of fresh stings) to spill 15 years of beekeeping wisdom, chaos, and comedy.
Yappy tells the wild story of how one shaky cell-phone video — where he caught a queen bare-handed, mid-recording, with nowhere to put her — rocketed his ...
Before getting into the honey of it all, host Eric riffs on a string of bizarre highway mishaps — rolled-over bee trucks, a tofu spill, flaming ribeyes — proving that 2026 is just a weird year for cargo.
Then the real magic begins: mechanical-engineer-turned-beekeeper Bill Hesbach drops some serious hive-mind wisdom on condensing hives, the practice of letting bees manage their own internal climate instead of beekeepers...
Host Eric Bennett, travels across the pond to Cornwall, England, for a fascinating conversation with Molly Earl, full-time beekeeper and founder of Bees Off and The Rescued Bee.
Molly specializes in live bee removals — rescuing honeybee colonies from chimneys, walls, flat roofs, and other structures — and has grown what started as a two-hive hobby into an operation managing roughly 300 beehives across mid-Cornwall.
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