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56 Dr. Ramesh Sagili – How to make a lot of honey this year!

Dr. Ramesh Sagili is an Associate Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University and heads up OSUs mighty Bee Lab. He is a regular guest on PolliNation and this week he comes on the show to tell ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Jun 2018 | Podcast episode

55 Mimi Jenkins – Watermelon Pollination: How native bees affect watermelon crops

Mimi Jenkins is a PhD candidate at Clemson University in wildlife biology studying how wildflowers in watermelon fields affect the diversity and crop pollination services by native bees to watermelon. Mimi works with watermelon ...

Andony Melathopoulos | Jun 2018 | Podcast episode

54 Ron Miksha – Crop Pollination: Past, Present and Future

Ron has worked with honey bees since childhood, producing a million pounds of honey and thousands of queens and packages. He has had bee farms in Pennsylvania, Florida, Saskatchewan, and Alberta and has migrated bees for ...

Andony Melathopoulos | May 2018 | Podcast episode

53 Kelly Rourke – National Pollinator Week

Eleven years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator ...

Andony Melathopoulos | May 2018 | Podcast episode

52 OSU Research Retinue – Mowing or mowing less: What helps the bees more?

The OSU Research Retinue reviews a research study that garnered a fair amount of press this month on the connection between lawn mowing frequency and bee abundance and diversity. The study, led by Susannah Lerman from USDA ...

Andony Melathopoulos | May 2018 | Podcast episode

51 Heather Higo – Rearing your Own Queens

Heather began working with honey bees in 1987 at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada and completed a Master’s degree in bee research under Mark Winston. On completion she took on the position of SFU ...

Andony Melathopoulos | May 2018 | Podcast episode

50 Lincoln Best – Taxonomy with The Oregon Bee Atlas

Lincoln Best is the Lead Taxonomist for the Oregon Bee Project/Atlas. He is obsessed with natural history, the little things, and designing plant communities to support biodiversity. He has studied the biodiversity of native bees from Haida Gwaii to Tasmania, and from Baja California to Taiwan.

Andony Melathopoulos | Apr 2018 | Podcast episode