Bee Love Beekeeping... presented by Mann Lake

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.
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Gail pulls back the curtain on the business side of beekeeping—selling honey directly to loyal customers, managing and sponsoring hives, rescuing swarms, and turning leftover beeswax into candles, balms, soap, and other goodies.
We also get a wild bee sting story (that includes projectile vomiting and pee), some questionable decisions involving hive tools, and a reminder that working with honey bees is never quite as calm and peaceful as the pictures make it look.
It’s Scotland, it’s bees, it’s business—and yes, there’s an EpiPen involved.
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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.
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From free hive removals and stashing colonies in the bushes to working for an experienced beekeeper and eventually buying the business, Jeremy’s journey proves that sometimes the best plans are the ones you never planned!
Jeremy also takes us behind the scenes of commercial Beekeeping in Southern California, where honey bees can keep you busy every day of the year. We talk pollination, farmers markets, honey production, queens, Varroa, and the unique challenges of keeping honey bees in a climate without much of a brood break.
Add a little ancient honey history and a warning about yellowjackets, and you've got an episode packed with bees, business, and plenty of bee-worthy laughs. Remember, it's all about the love of the bees!
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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.
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But this isn’t just about crowns and honey jars! We get into the serious side of Beekeeping, from Varroa mites and pesticides to the threat of fake honey—and why honey bees are so important to agriculture.
Delanie brings plenty of enthusiasm (and maybe a little honey-powered energy) to the conversation, showing why educating people about honey bees can be both important AND a whole lot of fun.
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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.
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We also explore the unique challenges of keeping bees in San Diego, where year-round brood means year-round Varroa and some colonies can have seriously spicy personalities.
Add in bee news from Texas and Virginia, and you’ve got an episode packed with fascinating facts, laughs, business inspiration, and plenty of reasons to appreciate the incredible little creatures at the heart of beekeeping.
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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 drone brood cells.
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Bonus points for the chicken-and-bee symbiosis system she's engineered on her 14-acre off-grid homestead.
Things get truly wild when Monica breaks out her craziest beekeeping stories — including the time she pulled 18 virgin queens out of a single swarm, and a bizarre cutout where four mated queens were living together in one melted, catacomb-like hive... until the bees ruthlessly picked a winner overnight.
Between water-hauling homestead hacks and gutsy mite-testing tips, this episode is equal parts survival guide and beekeeping soap opera.
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