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Behind the Veil

Buddha Bee Apiary

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/55d. Total Eps: 10

A show about a beekeeper trying to answer the questions: what’s killing bees and who’s doing something about it? Each episode of Behind the Veil tells the story of a researcher, entrepreneur, or enthusiast trying to preserve the world’s most important pollinator. Behind the Veil is hosted by Alfredo Salkeld and produced by Buddha Bee Apiary.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - nature
14/03/2026
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13/03/2026
#60
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#28
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🇬🇧 Great Britain - nature
14/04/2025
#74
🇬🇧 Great Britain - nature
23/11/2024
#98

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https://www.patreon.com/buddhabeeapiary
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72041-3
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Ep. 9 - Inventing The Flow Hive with Cedar Anderson

Season 1 · Episode 9

Thursday, April 7, 2022 • Duration 36:29

Nearly 20 years ago, Cedar Anderson set out to design an easier way to get honey from his beehives. Together with his father, Stu, he invented the Flow Hive—a revolutionary hive that lets beekeepers get "honey on tap." With over $13 million in pre-orders, his crowdfunding campaign is was one of the most successful in history. The innovative hive has drawn both admission and criticism from the beekeeping community. In this episode, Cedar walks us through the highs and lows of his journey.

Check out a GIF of how the Flow Hive works:

https://bit.ly/3NV2U6a

Learn more about the Flow Hive at: https://www.honeyflow.com/

Subscribe to our Patreon to help us produce more episodes of the show: https://www.patreon.com/buddhabeeapiary

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Ep. 8 - Creating Virtual Reality for Bees with Gregory Lafon

Season 1 · Episode 8

Saturday, November 27, 2021 • Duration 23:49

What does it take to create a virtual world for bees that lets us study how they learn? Gregory Lafon is at the forefront of using this technique to study honey bee cognition. In this episode, he discusses the challenges involved in building VR for bees and what we stand to learn. Gregory Lafon is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Toulouse.

Read his full paper and see photos of the VR setup here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00630-x

Help support the podcast by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/buddhabeeapiary

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Ep. 7 - Watching Bees Sleep with Manuel Giannoni Guzman

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 • Duration 19:22

Bees rely on their sense of time to navigate and find food. Is there a chance that pesticides alter this sense of time? Manuel Giannoni Guzman is a postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University. He and his team posed this question and designed an experiment to find out.

Read the full research paper published in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72041-3

Help support our podcast by pledging the cost of a cup of coffee. Or pledge a bit more to adopt a frame of bees! Learn more:

https://www.patreon.com/buddhabeeapiary

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Ep. 6 - Teaching Young Beekeepers with Kamal Bell

Season 1 · Episode 6

Sunday, February 14, 2021 • Duration 15:54

Kamal Bell left his full-time job as a teacher to turn a 12-acre piece of land into a profitable farm and honeybee apiary. The goal? Educate young farmers and increase access to fresh produce for minorities affected by food deserts. In this episode, Kamal tells the story of how Sankofa Farms came to be.

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Ep. 5 - Tracking Murder Hornets with Cassie Cichorz

Season 1 · Episode 5

Monday, January 18, 2021 • Duration 14:51

Cassie Cichorz is the Asian Giant Hornet outreach and education specialist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture. In this episode, she tells the story of how her team used tracking technology to follow a hornet back to its nest—then what they did to eradicate it. If you’re in Washington and come across what you believe is an Asian Giant Hornet, you can report it to the WSDA by calling 1-800-443-6684.

Watch video of the first eradication of an Asian Giant Hornet nest: https://youtu.be/JbIfOtpY5p8

Look inside of a nest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4BNlh1nrc

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Ep. 4 - Teaching Bees Math with Dr. Scarlett Howard

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, January 18, 2021 • Duration 20:32

Dr. Scarlett Howard is a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia. She’s asking the question: can bees do math? In this episode, she talks to us about how she teaches bees about zero, addition, and subtraction.

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Ep. 3 - Testing Fake Honey with Dr. Jim Gawenis

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, January 18, 2021 • Duration 15:01

There are millions of dollars being poured into trying to pass off cheap syrup as honey. Jim Gawenis is trying to stop it. He is the CEO and chief chemist of Sweetwater Science Labs, the only lab in the USA that uses Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to ensure the authenticity of honey.

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Ep. 2 - Studying Deadly Mites with Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman

Season 1 · Episode 2

Saturday, December 12, 2020 • Duration 18:17

As the research leader of the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman has received grants for her research in excess of $6 million. In this episode, she shares how a deadly parasitic insect has overtaken honeybee colonies across the world and what we can do to stop it.

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Ep. 1 - Creating the Netflix of Bees with Justin Maness

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 • Duration 17:51

Justin Maness is the founder of Buddha Bee Apiary, a company that installs and manages beehives in backyards across North Carolina. They do all the work and provide the equipment—and the customer gets the honey. He believes hands-on education could be the key to helping honeybees. But, he’s up against some serious challenges. In this episode, we learn his story.

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Trailer: Behind the Veil

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 • Duration 01:17

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