Two Bees in a Podcast

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu are joined by Eric Malcolm — Apicultural Extension Educator and the Apiary Manager at the University of Maryland Bee Lab in the Department of Entomology — to discuss colony inspections. This episode ends with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com for additional resources from today's episode. 

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In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu are joined by Dr. Meghan Milbrath — Assistant Professor and Apiculture Extension Specialist with the Department of Entomology and the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at Michigan State University Extension — to discuss how to recognize European foulbrood. This episode ends with a Q&A segment. Check out our website...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu are joined by Eugene Makovec — Editor of the American Bee Journal — to discuss his unique perspective on beekeeping as head of the well-known publication. This episode ends with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com for additional resources from today's episode. 

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu are joined by Norman Carreck — Director of Carreck Consultancy Ltd. and Co-Editor of The Beekeepers Quarterly in the United Kingdom — to discuss Insignia-EU, an international citizen scientist environmental monitoring project. This episode ends with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com for additional resou...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu are joined by Mike Allsopp—Senior Researcher in honey bee research for the Agricultural Research Council in Stellenbosch, South Africa to discuss beekeeping in South Africa. This episode ends with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com for additional resources from today's episode. 

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu are joined by Dr. Antonios Tsagkarakis —Assistant Professor in the Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture in the Department of Crop Sciences at the Agricultural University of Athens in Athens, Greece to discuss beekeeping in Greece, as well as research that his lab is currently conducting. This episode ends with a Q&A segme...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, Dr. Jamie Ellis interviews our very own, Amy Vu, to discuss the LevelingUp Extension program, through the USDA Beginner Farmer and Rancher Development Program, at the University of Florida Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory. This episode ends with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com for additional resources from today's ep...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on June 3rd, 2025, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu are joined by Dr. Brittney Goodrich—Assistant Professor in the Agriculture and ConsumerEconomics Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to discuss almond pollinationcontract analysis. This episode ends with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com for additional r...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on March 12th, 2025, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome back Dr. Andony Melathopoulos—Associate Professor of Pollinator Health Extension in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon—about updates on his lab and projects he’s working on. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.u...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on March 4th, 2025, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Elizabeth Walsh—a USDA-ARS Research Entomologist at the Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research Lab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana—about hangry bees. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com , for additional resources from today'...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on February 26th, 2025, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Dewey Caron—a retired Professor and the current content and communications specialist that oversees the Oregon Master Beekeeper Program in the Department of Horticulture with Oregon State University—about Citizen Scientist and The BeeMD. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. C...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on February 18th, 2025, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Cliff Struhl—President and CEO of BeeSmart Designs—to talk about monetizing beekeeping beyond just bees and honey. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional resources from today's episode. 

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on February 11th, 2025, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Cecilia Costa—a Senior Researcher with the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), based in Italy—to talk about an EU funded project called BeeGuards. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional resources from...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on December 17, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Gabriela Quinlan—a Research Ecologist with the USDA ARS who is currently based in North Carolina—to talk about winter bees. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional resources from today's episode. 

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on December 10, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Kaitlin Deutsch—a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory in the Entomology and Nematology Department at the University of Florida—to talk about pathogen spillover between honey bees and native bees. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on December 3, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Mohamed Alburaki—a research entomologist at the Bee Research Laboratory with the USDA ARS in Beltsville, Maryland—to talk about his publishing(s) on the status report of honey bee diseases in the United States from 2015-2022. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our we...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on November 19, 2024, Dr. Cameron Jack and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Ferhat Ozturk—an Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas SanAntonio in the Department of Biology, Health, and Environmental Sciences and also the Director of Honey Pathway. Dr. Ozturk speaks about his class called “The Medicinal Properties of Honey”. This episode c...

In this special episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on November 12, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu relay important information on the Save The Bees License Plate. For more information, please visit https://www.savethebeesplate.com/ or email info@savethebeesplate.com with any questions. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional resources from today's episode.

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on November 5, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Patrick Hardy—the Executive Director of Bee Platoon—to talk about Bee Platoon: a honey bee disaster response team based in California. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional resources from today's episode. 

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on October 29, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Geoff Williams—an Associate Professor at the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University—to talk about a hot global topic in the honey bee world: Tropilaelaps. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional re...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on October 22, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Jennifer Standley—who finished her master's degree here at the UF Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory, and is now completing her PhD with Dr. Geoff Williams at his laboratory in the department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University—to talk about a research project that...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on October 15, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Ray Olivarez—the owner of Olivarez Honey Bees incorporated in Orland, California—to talk about queen production, pollination, and package production. This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional resources from today's episode. 

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on October 8, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Kirk Anderson—the lead scientist, a molecular microbial ecologist and research microbiologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center for the USDA Agricultural Research Service—to talk about his manuscript, “A longitudinal field study of commercial honey bees shows that non-native probiotic...

In this episode of Two Bees in a Podcast, released on October 1, 2024, Dr. Jamie Ellis and Amy Vu welcome Dr. Huw Evans—a lead innovator for BeeHero X—to talk about his publication “Hive Orientation and Colony Strength Affect Honey Bee Colony Activity during Almond Pollination.” This episode concludes with a Q&A segment. Check out our website: www.ufhoneybee.com, for additional resources from...