POSTED NOV 09, 2025
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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

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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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