About this podcast
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, Bee Love is a fun, informative way to connect with other honey bee lovers.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 105 episodes
- Winter Bee Prep - Are Your Bees Ready? · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 344What happens when your bee colonies get so big people think you’re using AI in their photos? And what happens when the honey sold as “local” turns out to be anything but?…
- Money Saving Hacks for Beekeepers · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 343What do NASA astronauts and backyard beekeepers have in common? They both know that honey bees don’t always follow the rules! This episode of Bee Love Beekeeping starts with a…
- Best Beekeeping Invention of 2026 · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 342Honey harvesting without the sticky mess? Yes, please! 🐝 On this episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, Eric Bennett chats with Simon Mildred of Hivekeepers, an Australian innovator…
- A Beehive Is Your Backyard Pharmacy! · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 341What do you get when you combine a French beekeeper, illegal rooftop beehives in Manhattan, a legendary bee venom pioneer, and a healthy dose of curiosity? One seriously sweet…
- Challenges of Beekeeping In Wildfire Area · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 340What 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…
- Winter Bee Prep & How to Make $$ Managing Beehives · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 339It’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…
- Scottish Beekeeper Allergic to Stings · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 338How 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…
- How to Build a Beekeeping Business - Young Entrepreneur Tells All · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 337What 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…
- 2026 American Honey Queen - Bee Beards, Nationwide Travel, Excitement · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 336Grab 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…
- San Diego Beekeeping Business - Money Making Tips · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 335What 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…
- Africanized Bee Removals at Night · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 334Get 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…
- 21,000+ Bee Colonies Removed & Saved · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 333Forget 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…
- Update on Birth Control for Varroa Mites - Norroa · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 332What 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…
- Varroa Mites In Australia - Flow Hive's Cedar Anderson · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 331This 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…
- "Natural Nest Beekeeping" With Hippy Oregon Beekeepers · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 330This 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…
- Bee Stings: Lifesaving Information with Dr. Juanita Mora, MD · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 3292 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…
- Could Varroa Resistant "California Bees" Hold Key To Solving The Problem? · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 8Buzzing 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…
- YAPPY Beeman Talks Bee Removals & Viral Videos · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 327Yappy: "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…
- "Condensing" Beehives - Why & How · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 326Before 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…
- Rescuing Bees In Cornwall, England · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 325Host 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…
