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Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake

Bee Love Beekeeping podcast is for everyone who loves honey bees! Hobby Beekeepers, Sideline Beekeepers, Commercial Beekeepers, Wanna-Bee Beekeepers, or anyone who is planting flowers and other native plants to support honey bees and other pollinators.Bee Love Beekeeping podcast includes interviews with real beekeepers, the latest news on honey bees and beekeeping, the newest gadgets and beekeeping inventions, plus fun stories about crazy things that happen in the bee yard.Hosted by Eric Bennett,

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34:07

Challenges of Beekeeping In Wildfire Area

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/10/02

What happens when a surfer, a swarm of honey bees, and a wildfire-prone corner of Southern California collide? You get one heck of a beekeeping story! Eric Bennett sits down with Eli Lichter-Mark, a small commercial beekeeper managing hundreds of hives around Topanga and Malibu. Eli shares how he went from catching swarms and repeatedly killing off his colonies to building a real bee business—complete with forklifts, flatbeds, almond pollination, a honey kitchen, and plenty of opportunities to get

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45:08

Winter Bee Prep & How to Make $$ Managing Beehives

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/09/25

It’s episode 100!! And we’re celebrating with a whole lot of beekeeping, a whole lot of bees, and a guest who knows that being a beekeeper is basically a full-time workout—with honey supers instead of dumbbells! Ryan Griffeth returns to the show to talk winter bee prep, managing hives across Connecticut’s wildly different microclimates, and what it really takes to keep colonies healthy when the temperatures drop._____________It's Time For Winter Bee Prep!$10 off your next order

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39:37

Scottish Beekeeper Allergic to Stings

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/09/18

How To: Best way to find lost hive tools (she has 30 and they're all missing)!What do you do when you love beekeeping, make your living with bees, and your body has decided it would really rather you not get stung? You apparently keep going! This week we head to Scotland to meet full-time beekeeper Gael Wilkinson, who manages hives across the Kingdom of Fife while navigating unpredictable weather, Scottish seasons, and the occasional bee that apparently has a personal grudge._____________It's Time

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32:42

How to Build a Beekeeping Business - Young...

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/09/11

What happens when a teenager thinks Beekeeping is going to be an easy way to make some money? In this episode, Jeremy Jensen shares the hilarious—and ultimately inspiring—story of how a fascination with bees turned into a full-blown career. _____________It's Time For Winter Bee Prep!$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10_____________From free hive removals and stashing colonies in the bushes to working for an experienced beekeeper and eventually buying the

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33:38

2026 American Honey Queen - Bee Beards, Nationwide...

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/09/03

Grab your bee suit and get ready to meet royalty! In this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, we sit down with Delanie Craighead, the American Honey Queen, to find out what it’s really like to wear the crown, travel the country, and talk nonstop about honey bees. Delanie shares how she became Queen, what goes into the competition, and some of the fun adventures that come with representing Beekeeping and Beekeepers across America._____________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/•

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37:58

San Diego Beekeeping Business - Money Making Tips

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/08/28

What do Picasso paintings, bee dance-offs, and a swarm living on a greasy crane have in common? They’re all part of the wonderfully weird world of honey bees and beekeeping! In this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, we head to San Diego to meet Hilary Kearney of Girl Next Door Honey, who has turned 16 years of beekeeping experience into a creative, full-time business. _____________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10_____________We also explore the unique

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31:43

Africanized Bee Removals at Night

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/08/21

Get ready to meet your match for Africanized bee expertise: third-generation beekeeper Monica King joins Bee Love Beekeeping host, Eric Bennett, to talk about wrangling "killer bees" in the 110-degree heat of southern Arizona. Monica shares her beekeeping secrets for night-time hive removals under red lanterns (bees hate white light and love drama). She explains why "hangry" honey bees get meaner during droughts, and reveals her go-to trick for spotting varroa mite infestations by popping open

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38:36

21,000+ Bee Colonies Removed & Saved

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/08/14

Forget everything you thought you knew about swarm removal! This episode is a full-on myth-busting session with SoCal's own Bee Man Dan, a rescuer who's handled over 21,000 colonies and trained in Beekeeping the unconventional way: through his Kung Fu school, under Daoist and Buddhist monks. _____________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10_____________The internet gospel says "find the queen, box her, and the rest will follow." Dan says nope. After

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30:40

Update on Birth Control for Varroa Mites - Norroa

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/08/07

What is "RNA Interference" and why are beekeepers calling it birth control for Varroa?In this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, we're buzzing into two topics that every beekeeper should know about. First, we tackle the sticky subject of glyphosate (Roundup®) and what the latest research says about its surprising effects on honey bees—from disrupting their gut health to changing the way they forage. _____________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount Code:

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41:15

Varroa Mites In Australia - Flow Hive's Cedar Anderson

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/07/31

This week's beekeeping adventure takes us to Byron Bay, Australia, where Flow Hive co-inventor Cedar Anderson gives us the buzz on life after Varroa mites invaded the continent. After a failed containment effort that saw thousands of hives burned, Australian beekeepers battled a brutal one-two punch of Varroa weakening colonies and small hive beetles finishing the job — sound familiar, fellow beekeepers? _____________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount Code:

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40:34

"Natural Nest Beekeeping" With Hippy Oregon Beekeepers

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/07/23

This week we're heading to Oregon to hang out with Joy and Eric McEwen, husband-and-wife beekeepers who've been at it together for 26 seasons and now tend around 650 colonies. They coined the term "natural nest beekeeping" to describe their whole philosophy: foundationless, paint-free, plastic-free hives, protected with a homemade beeswax-linseed-pine rosin sealant, queens raised in-house by their own sister bees instead of grafted or shipped in cages, and a Warré-inspired vertical hive design that

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33:47

Bee Stings: Lifesaving Information with Dr. Juanita...

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/07/17

2 Million Americans are allergic to bee stings. Do you know what to do for yourself, or someone else, when they have a severe reaction?We kick things off with eight bee sting facts that'll make you the most insufferable know-it-all at your next beekeeping club meeting. Did you know only lady bees can sting, that a detached stinger keeps pumping venom like a tiny horror-movie villain, or that bee venom is basically one superstar protein wearing a trench coat? You're welcome._____________$10 off your

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38:39

Could Varroa Resistant "California Bees" Hold Key To...

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/07/09

Buzzing with intrigue, this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping kicks off with spider venom playing mite assassin. Then the real fun begins: UC Riverside's Genesis Chong and Owen Wagner dish on their scrappy "Californian" hybrid bees, tough, hybridized survivors that shrug off Varroa infestations that would tank a typical commercial colony. _____________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10_________________For beekeepers tired of chemical treatments, this is

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44:36

YAPPY Beeman Talks Bee Removals & Viral Videos

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/07/02

Yappy: "This will get me excommunicated from the bee community!"Firefighter by day, bee-whisperer by everything else — Yappy BeeMan joins the show fresh off a job (complete with a couple of fresh stings) to spill 15 years of beekeeping wisdom, chaos, and comedy. Yappy tells the wild story of how one shaky cell-phone video — where he caught a queen bare-handed, mid-recording, with nowhere to put her — rocketed his channel from 5,000 subscribers to a million views practically overnight

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41:23

"Condensing" Beehives - Why & How

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/06/25

Before getting into the honey of it all, host Eric riffs on a string of bizarre highway mishaps — rolled-over bee trucks, a tofu spill, flaming ribeyes — proving that 2026 is just a weird year for cargo. Then the real magic begins: mechanical-engineer-turned-beekeeper Bill Hesbach drops some serious hive-mind wisdom on condensing hives, the practice of letting bees manage their own internal climate instead of beekeepers cranking up the ventilation. _____________$10 off your next order!

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42:26

Rescuing Bees In Cornwall, England

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/06/18

Host Eric Bennett, travels across the pond to Cornwall, England, for a fascinating conversation with Molly Earl, full-time beekeeper and founder of Bees Off and The Rescued Bee. Molly specializes in live bee removals — rescuing honeybee colonies from chimneys, walls, flat roofs, and other structures — and has grown what started as a two-hive hobby into an operation managing roughly 300 beehives across mid-Cornwall. ______________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount Code:

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38:13

Naked & Afraid Beekeeping

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/06/11

In this fun episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, host Eric Bennett sits down with Tara Skubella and Darrin Reay — survivalists best known from Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid — to talk all things honey bees and beekeeping. The duo shares their passion project: a custom apitherapy bee hut built atop four Langstroth hives, where visitors breathe healing pheromones and soak up therapeutic vibrations without a single sting. ______________$10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/• Discount

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34:47

Bee Venom Therapy • Drone Races • Making Queens

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/06/04

Hold onto your veils, because this week's episode is a wild ride through the wonderful world of beekeeping with Ohio-based guest Emily Mueller, a certified master herbalist, doctoral student, homeschooling mom of four, and — most importantly — a certified crazy bee lady. Beekeeper Emily schooled us on the art of drone races, the jaw-dropping healing powers of propolis for cavities and cold sores, and bee venom therapy, which she's been administering to herself and others for more than a

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37:46

Secrets of Sustainable Beekeeping - With Beekeeper...

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/05/28

What happens when bees ignore your perfectly prepared swarm trap and instead move into a beat-up, broken-lidded box on a woodshed floor? Pure beekeeping magic, apparently. Host Eric Bennett, kicks off this episode with exactly that delightful chaos before welcoming guest Michael Scott from Indiana, Pennsylvania — a town whose name exists solely to confuse people. The two dive deep into sustainable beekeeping, covering everything from honey colors (light and citrusy tulip poplar vs. dark, rich

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28:40

Long Langstroth Hive - Custom Designed, Hand Built,...

Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake ·

2026/05/21

Heroic news for a bee truck traveling the mountains of Utah... Bees on the loose at the White House... And building a beautiful long lang hive!This episode of Bee Love Beekeeping features host Eric Bennett in conversation with Curtis "Jack Lumber" Nielsen, a first-year beekeeper from British Columbia, Canada, who dove headfirst into beekeeping by building his own custom hive from scratch. Rather than purchasing a standard setup, Jack designed and milled an impressive 80-inch long langstroth hive

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