Category: Ross Conrad
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Human Superiority
Species Superiority and the Rights of Nature Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad In last month’s Bee Culture article, I mentioned the recent granting of legal rights to stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon. The granting…
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Glyphosate Retraction
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! The Rights of People and Bees By: Ross Conrad In the latest red flag that should cause even the most earnest pesticide advocate to seriously question and reject the current U.S. regulatory process…
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Counting My Blessings
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! It is nice to experience an exceptionally good honey crop every once in a while despite the climate extremes By: Ross Conrad The 2025 season was a wild one for me in the…
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Emily Dickinson
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Emily Dickinson: The Reigning Queen of Bee Inspired Poetry By: Ross Conrad From the industrious hum of the hive to “the golden angels of agriculture” moniker, bees lend themselves readily to poetic imagery.…
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Kirk Webster
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Kirk Webster: Author of Many Best Kept Secrets: A Wonderful and Unusual Life Around Honey Bees By: Ross Conrad On the occasion of the publication of his first book, I had the privilege…
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Hopeful Future
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad Thoughts on building a healthier beekeeping future – It can be easy for beekeepers to become discouraged these days, but there are reasons to be optimistic and to keep the…
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Winter Losses
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad Winter colony losses: I regularly come across statements that claim the most serious problem beekeepers face is the Varroa mite. With about a dozen approved acaricides available to U.S. beekeepers,…
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Radical Apiculture
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Radical Apiculture: Honey without beekeepers and pollination without bees By: Ross Conrad It would be an understatement to say that I was disappointed to learn about MeliBio, the company that uses microorganisms and…