POSTED NOV 09, 2025
LENGTH 1:16:10
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Episode #285 – Lefty
SYNOPSIS:
Collecting Smoker Fuel, Beehive Insulation, Sleeping Bees, Small Hive Beetle Threat, Avoiding Tropi Incursion In NJ, Cricket Temperature Gauge, Fall Feeding, Honey Cookie Recipe, Local Hive Report, Right Arm Troubles
EPISODE GUIDE
Agenda
00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News
00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda
04:49 | Roundtable 1: Collecting smoker fuel (Pine Needles)
08:50 | Roundtable 2: Insulation of Beehives for Winter (timing and process)
17:39 | Roundtable 3: Sleeping Beauties. Recognizing sleeping bees in a beehive, behavior and appearance
27:31 | Roundtable 4: Small Hive Beetles – are they becoming a bigger menance?
37:44 | Roundtable 5: Tropilaelaps Avoidance – NJ Action to prevent incursion into US
41:36 | Roundtable 6: Crickets – they can guide you on the temperature outside
45:25 | Roundtable 7: Reflection on Fall Feeding
56:14 | Roundtable 8: A cookie recipe – From molasses cookies to honey cookies (David Lewis)
61:15 | Local Hive Report
69:37 – 76:10 | Closing Comments
EPISODE LINKS
Link | Slumber in a cell: honeycomb used by honey bees for food, brood, heating… and sleeping
Link | From Molasses Cookies, to Honey Cookies (Don Lewis)
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