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PolliNation Podcast

Andony Melathopoulos

PolliNation is a podcast from Oregon State University Extension Service that tells the stories of researchers, land managers and concerned citizens who are making bold strides to improve the health of pollinators.

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37:13

232 - Shannon - Do adjuvants influence bee health?

PolliNation Podcast ·

2023/02/10

Pesticide applicators frequently add adjuvants to help their pesticide applications be more effective or safer to use. Adjuvants, however, are not assessed for their risk to bees by regulators. We hear about new research that assesses the safety of these products to bees.

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231 - Dean - Georgia bee license plate

PolliNation Podcast ·

2023/02/07

Oregon is going to be getting a new bee plate. We hear about our inspiration from beekeepers in Georgia.

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45:24

230 - Eeraerts - Stocking honey bee colonies for the...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2023/01/01

Extension guides often offer blanket recommendations for honey bee colony stocking rates on a field scale. This week we learn about new blueberry research that suggests these recommendations need to take the landscape into consideration.

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46:58

229 - Lu - Marker assisted selection 101 (for...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/12/21

Breeding honey bees is notoriously difficult. New molecular techniques may help.

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228 - Rinkevich - Are varroa resistant to amitraz?

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/12/14

Beekeepers across North America depend on an acaricide containing amitraz to manage varroa mites, the most challenging pest problem bees face. In this episode we learn of a large scale effort to determine whether the mites are still susceptible to the treatments and what beekeepers can do if they face amitraz resistant mites.

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227 - Lindsay- Matching plants to bees

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/12/07

It is often assumed that a single blend of flowers could serve all bees equally. In this episode we hear about some new research that considers how it might make sense to tailor resource availability in restored habitats to bee preference in an area.

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226 - Spendal - Those amazing mason bees

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/11/07

Much of what we know about the life history of mason bees is based on very few observations. This week we hear from a new study that shows how many of our assumptions about these bees have underestimated these amazing bees.

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40:26

225 - Chabert - Would blueberry yield benefit from...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/10/25

Blueberries are a big crop in the Pacific Northwest, but the question of how blueberry yield might benefit from outcrossing among cultivars (like apples and cherries) is not clear. This week we hear about research to determine the benefits of outcrossing in blueberries.

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29:27

224 - Jennings and Willson - Washington Native Bee...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/10/18

If you are interested in native bees and a member of the public where do you go? Washington has a new approach, namely the formation of a native bee society, which enables people across a wide range of interests to get together and work towards the preservation of the bees of the Evergreen State.

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223 - Youngsteadt - Urban bees: what drives diversity...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/10/02

Gardening and landscaping for urban wild bees is growing. While there is a lot of attention to the flowers to help bees, what else drives diversity? Also, how is diversity measured? In this episode we learn about the broader factors that determine diversity and the biases involved with measuring bee diversity with pan traps.

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222 - Danielsen - Pollinator habitat on water pipelines?

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/09/25

As water pipelines are buried to conserve water, this leaves a lot of land that could be converted to pollinator habitat. In this episode we learn of an initiative from Hood River County in Oregon.

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221 - Taylor - Bees and school farms

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/09/19

Urban farms are becoming more common on school grounds. In this episode we hear how bees can be a critical part of student experience at school urban farms.

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45:25

220 - Washington Co Master Gardener - Pollinator...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/09/04

2022 was the year we were able to get back out to public events to talk to the public about pollinators. Some of us were a little rusty. In this episode we hear about how to pull off an excellent event and how to involve Master Gardeners.

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219 - Labuschagne - Living through a Varroapocolypse

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/08/22

The Canadian prairie region is home to the bulk of that country’s colonies. Last year it suffered crippling losses to varroa mites. In this episode we see what we can learn from these periodic heavy varroa infestation years.

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218 - Casey Holland - What the heck does IPM mean (in...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/08/14

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a key dimension of pollinator protection. This week we head to Chispas Farm in Albuquerque, New Mexico on how they use an integrated method to protect their plants from pests and encourage pollinators.

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217 - O'Shea-Wheller - Are varroa resistant bees...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/08/08

Varroa resistant bees have been on the horizon for over a decade. This week we learned how close these lines are to being used commercially through a recent study of the POL line.

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21:35

216 - Yang and Henle - Machines learning to classify...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/07/31

A new study uses machine learning to classify whether a pesticide is toxic to bees or not.

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215 - Mahood - Drone congregation areas

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/06/19

Central to honey bee mating are drone congregation areas (DCAs). In this episode we learn how to locate DCAs using unmanned aerial devises (aka, drones).

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28:54

214 - Paul - Mason Bees in (an unusually) Cool Wet...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/06/13

It’s been a cold and wet spring across the Pacific Northwest region. In this episode we learn about what impacts it may have had on cocoon production and what you can do to ensure you maintain bee productivity across a range of spring conditions.

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213 - Whitford and Feken - The complex life of the...

PolliNation Podcast ·

2022/06/06

Honey bees have complex societies, which makes their response to environmental stressors difficult to understand. Consequently, the ways in which pesticide risk is assessed for bees can be complicated, nuanced and overwhelming. In this episode we cut through the tangle of all this complexity through a new extension publication.

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