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Beekeeping Buddies

"Beekeeping Buddies" is your go-to podcast for all things buzzing in the world of beekeeping! Join Steve and Luke, two seasoned hobbyist beekeepers with over a decade of experience each, as they take you on a journey through the captivating realm of beekeeping. Tune in as they share firsthand accounts of the latest buzz in their personal bee yards parked in picturesque Peoria, IL. From Midwest seasonal hive updates to intriguing anecdotes, Steve and Luke provide invaluable insights garnered from

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Episode 20 - Christmas Holiday Shopping Special

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2024/12/20

Welcome to Episode 20 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. This Episode we are going to talk to our shopping special and ideas we have for beekeepers this holiday season! Please note there are Amazon Affiliate Links here that give us 3% of the overall purchase price if you do click on any of these links. 9 Frame Spacers Dadant - https://www.dadant.com/catalog/m00874-9-frame-spacers-each Amazon - https://amzn.to/3ZKrg9F Amazon

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Episode 19 - Winter Sets In, Drones 101, and Holiday...

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2024/12/05

Welcome to Episode 19 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Final OA Treatment: One last OA treatment for the year! Winter Prep: Buttoning up for winter In the News: Beekeeping 101: Drones and how they help the hive! Upcoming Beekeeping Courses: Find your local club and get signed up for your annual beekeeping beginner course. Upcoming Holiday Markets: Keep an eye out for your local beekeeper as they brave the

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Episode 18 Episode 18 - Winter Tasks, Queen Bee 101,...

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2024/11/20

Welcome to Episode 18 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Final OA Treatment: One last OA treatment for the year! Suit Cleaning: Have an older suit? How do you clean it? In the News: Beekeeping 101: Queen and how she works and what she does! Nucs vs Packages: What Steve and Luke think about bees vs packages. We also cover our new offering! Honeybee Hotline: Pollen Bound: What is a pollen bound hive and what

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Episode 17 - Honeybee Vaccines, Bee Biology, and...

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2024/11/07

Welcome to Episode 17 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Reading for Winter: Feeding hives, making fondant and candy boards for winter, How to Make Candy Board Video: https://youtu.be/3UI0BGBJs8M?si=eMji3lGv4ezXNaXy In the News: Beekeeping 101: Workers and what they do in the hive. AFB Vaccine: AFB and how that is passed on to the queen bee. Honeybee Hotline: Collapsed Hives: Luke and Steve talk about a

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Episode 16 - October Deep Dive into Cutouts in...

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2024/10/24

Welcome to Episode 16 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Dry October: A dry hot October, still In the News: DMZ Honey: NY Times article on a beekeeper in Korea Droning On: Deep Dive Into Midwest Cutouts: Luke and Steve talk about what tools, time, and knowledge you need before attempting a cutout. Tune in to Episode 16 for all this and more as we delve into the world of beekeeping in Central Illinois,

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Episode 15 - Dry October, Fall Honey Stocks, Upcoming...

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2024/10/16

Welcome to Episode 15 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Dry October: A dry hot October. What do we do, anything we should not be doing? Fall Honey Stock: How do our hives look for winter? How are our flow hives doing? Is there anything we can do right now? Upcoming Cutouts: Looks like Luke and Steve will have some upcoming cutouts... will be covered extensively in episode 16. In the News: Legislative

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Episode 14 - Rainless in September, Fall Honey...

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2024/09/27

Welcome to Episode 14 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: More Unusual Weather: A dry hot September. What do we do, anything we should not be doing? Fall Honey Stock: How do our hives look for winter? How are our flow hives doing? Is there anything we can do right now? To Insulate or Not to Insulate: Steve and Luke share what we do, and what we have seen in our hives. Starting Hive Setup: We share what we

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Episode 13 - Winter Feeding, Winterizing, Hive ...

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2024/09/12

Welcome to Episode 13 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Winter Feeding: Are we still feeding? Should you be? Winterizing: What do we do and why do we do it? What does the fat body actually do? How do we set up our hives? Hive Beetles... in Illinios?: Luke is seeeing a strange uptick in hive beetles. What is he doing for it? Taking Fall Honey: Are we taking fall honey? Problems we are seeing. Queen Transfer:

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Episode 12 - Winter Feeding, Alaska Bees, Talking to...

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2024/08/28

Welcome to Episode 12 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Winter Feeding: When should feeding for your bees start? How much should the hive weigh? Alaska Beekeeping: What was Luke's trip like? How do the bees work during the summer? Do they survive winter? In the News: Talking to Non-Beeks: Talking to non-beeks... is it a great idea? Talking to the Club: Steve speaks to the HOIBA beekeeping club about mites

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Episode 11 - Fancy Queens, Honey Tastings, Hiveorama...

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2024/08/07

Welcome to Episode 11 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Fancy Quees: Luke picked up some fancy queens from a local breeder. Come listen to what we have. Honey Tasting: A honey tasting was held in attemps to make apitourism more common. Listen to what we tried, our thoughts on what to taste and how to best run one. Queen Rearing: Two cutouts scheduled for the coming weeks! In the News: Hiveorama: New on the

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Episode 10 - End of July Bee Farm updates,...

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2024/07/25

Welcome to Episode 10 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Harvesting Honey: We’ll discuss the best practices for harvesting honey in Central Illinois, including timing and techniques to ensure a successful yield, and how much we've gotten so far. Beekeeping Tours: Sharing our recent experiences and insights from our beekeeping tours. Queen Rearing: An update about our first real year of queen rearing in our

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Episode 9 - Honey Harvest, Flow Hives, Grafting...

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2024/07/10

Welcome to Episode 9 of Beekeeping Buddies. The podcast where Steve and Luke talk about beekeeping in the Central Illinois area. Around the Yard: Harvesting Honey: We’ll discuss the best practices for harvesting honey in Central Illinois, including timing and techniques to ensure a successful yield, and how much we've gotten so far. Flow Hives: An exploration of the advantages and disadvantages of using Flow Hives in our region. Grafting Queens: Tips and tricks for grafting queens, a crucial skill

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Episode 8 - Moving Hives, Flow Hives, EFB, Queen...

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2024/06/26

Join us in this episode of beekeeping buddies where we talk about the challenges of moving hives, our flow hive experience, what we do when we find EFB, Queen Grafting, upcoming events and more with Steve and Luke as we talk about beekeeping in the midwest! Mann Lake QC100 - https://www.mannlakeltd.com/honey-bees/queen-rearing/complete-queen-rearing-kit/?sku=QC100&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-O6zBhASEiwAOHeGxVxc1pSIr9FpaXF2iAwi2a4jqNpCHy5PyGYmNA6vk9a5vmgpc4XM8hoC2OkQAvD_BwE HiveoRama -

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Episode 7 - Visiting Beekeeping Buddy Valerie Ross!...

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2024/06/12

Join us, Steve and Luke, your friendly neighborhood beekeeping enthusiasts, as we embark on an exciting journey into the world of honeybees, hives, and all things buzzing! We have our first beekeeping buddy Valerie Ross on our episode! We talk about what it is like to be a beginner beekeeper! With over a decade of combined experience in beekeeping, we're no strangers to the sweet, sticky world of apiaries. From our humble beginnings as hobbyist beekeepers to our thriving bee yards nestled in the

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Episode 6 - Queen Rearing, Nectar Flow, Hive...

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2024/05/31

In Episode 6 of Beekeeping Buddies, hosts Steven Schmidt and Luke Harvey take listeners on a comprehensive journey through several key aspects of beekeeping. The episode kicks off with an in-depth discussion on Queen Rearing, where Steven and Luke share their expertise on raising healthy queens and the critical role these queens play in hive health and productivity. The duo then transitions into the topic of Nectar Flow, explaining its significance and offering strategies for beekeepers to maximize

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Episode 5 - Package Installation, Swarm Season, Japan...

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2024/05/15

Come join Steve and Luke and hear us talk about complications with our package installations, Luke's beekeeping trip to Japan, a busy swarm season (including a birthday swarm), and a recent cutout we completed. Steve's Favorite Nuc Box - https://blueskybeesupply.com/polystyrene-medium-6-frame-nuc-kit-unassembled/ Luke's Favorite Nuc Box - https://www.betterbee.com/nuc-boxes/lyson-w1130-nuc-with-latches.asp Queen Calculator - https://www.iowabees.com/gc Ginza Honeybee Project -

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Episode 4 - Making New Beekeepers, EPA Legislation,...

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2024/04/10

Welcome to a bonus episode. While Luke is overseas looking at Apis Cerana, we needed to discuss some important legislation and some great articles by commercial beekeeper Charles Linder. Listen to is discuss beekeeping lobbiests, the why we need to be comcerned about the FDA becoming involved in our miticide treatment process. We also discuss splits, and how to split with medium frames. American Bee Journal - https://americanbeejournal.com/ Illinois State Beekeeping Association -

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Episode 3 - Losses, Traps, Queens, Bee Expos, Review...

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2024/04/03

Join us in Episode 3 where we talk about some early spring losses, when we should be putting out hive traps, VSH Queens and their prices, Bee Expo and available videos as well as the upcoming Hiveorama, introduce our new product review corner, and answer some questions from the honeybee hotline. Thank you again for joining us and we look forward to buzzing along with you again soon. Hiveorama August 10th, 2024 - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089320765104 Bee Smart Inner Cover -

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Episode 2 - Weird Weather, Measuring VSH, Beekeeping...

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2024/03/20

This episode we talk about strange weather in March in central Illinois, where our flowers are, where our bees are in development, completing and communicating VSH with Harbo Assays, beekeeping clubs, understand what you are doing and why it is important, and our popular Droning On where we answer listener questions. Where to go for instructions on Harbo Assay https://www.harbobeeco.com/measure-vsh/ Specific Harbo Assay Instructions

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Episode 1 - Strange Spring Temperatures, Virtual...

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2024/03/04

What's going on with our late winter temperatures? We talk about our very pleasant and strange very early spring temperatures, a virtual beekeeping conference, how do we get to varroa sensitive hives, our thoughts on making a queen builder, UBeeO test kits, the Apimayne hive type, beekeeping in the news, and the honeybee hotline! Sustainable Beekeepers Guild of Michigan - https://sbgmi.org/ Illinois Queen Initiative- https://illinoisqueeninitiative.com/ UBeeO Testing - https://opterabees.com/

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