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70 Dr. Sara Galbraith – Measuring Success: Mason Bees as an Indicator of Forest Management Quality

Dr. Sara Galbraith is a postdoctoral researcher in the Forest Animal Ecology Lab at Oregon State University in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society. She has a B.A. in Biology from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in...

Andony Melathopoulos | Oct 2018 | Podcast episode

69 Michelle Flenniken – Bee viruses

Michelle Flenniken is an Assistant Professor in the Plant Sciences Department at Montana State University. She is a microbiologist investigating honey bee host–pathogen interactions and Co-Director of the Pollinator Health Center at ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Oct 2018 | Podcast episode

68 Project Apis m. – Enhancing the Health of Honey Bees Through Research and Education

Our guest today is Danielle Downey, the Executive Director for Project Apis m., whose mission is to fund and direct research to enhance the health and vitality of honey bee colonies while improving crop production. Danielle has...

Andony Melathopoulos | Sep 2018 | Podcast episode

67 Rich Hatfield – PNW Bumble Bee Atlas

Rich Hatfield is a senior conservation biologist for the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. He has authored several publications on bumble bees, including a set of management guidelines entitled Conserving Bumble Bees.

Andony Melathopoulos | Sep 2018 | Podcast episode

66 Dr. Sarah Lawson – The small carpenter bee and their Cinderella daughters

We are starting a new series to help expand our understanding of the amazing diversity in the bee genera of the Pacific Northwest. This week, we are focusing on the small carpenter bee from the genus Ceratina with Dr. ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Aug 2018 | Podcast episode

65 Robert Coffin and Josh Loy – Teeing off with Monarch Butterflies

In past episodes, we have highlighted the important role golf courses play in pollinator health. In today’s episode, we talk about a fantastic success story here in Oregon. Earlier this month, Stewart Meadows Golf Course in ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Aug 2018 | Podcast episode

64 Mike Rodia – Residential Beekeeping and the Law

Ralph (Mike) Rodia, a life time member of the Oregon State Beekeepers Association (OSBA) and the Willamette Valley Beekeepers Association [WVBA], has a PhD in Organic Chemistry, was a research scientist, college educator, ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Aug 2018 | Podcast episode

63 Lori Weidenhammer – Victory Gardens for Bees

This week we catch up with Lori Weidenhammer about her book Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees. Lori was recently through Corvallis for the Oregon Bee School and this offered an opportunity to talk about the book before class one morning.

Andony Melathopoulos | Aug 2018 | Podcast episode

62 Sam Droege and the Bee School

This week, students with Oregon State University’s Bee School took a break in the OSU Pollinator Gardens on their last day of class (they were working on the Apidae) to ask questions of native bee biologist Sam Droege. ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Jul 2018 | Podcast episode