Bee Venom Therapy • Drone Races • Making Queens

YAPPY Beeman Talks Bee Removals & Viral Videos

Yappy: "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 a couple of fresh stings) to spill 15 years of beekeeping wisdom, chaos, and comedy. Yappy tells the wild story of how one shaky cell-phone video — where he caught a queen bare-handed, mid-recording, with nowhere to put her — rocketed his channel from 5,000 subscribers to a million views practically overnight. _____________ $10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] • Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10 _________________ From there, things get delightfully spicy: he makes the case for treating bees "like ladies" (suit optional), roasts the beekeepers who bust up cinder block basements to "save" $150 worth of bees, and explains why lazy trap-outs are basically bee purgatory. The grand finale? Two jaw-dropping removals from a 150-year-old farmhouse — one wall hiding a 75-year-old colony, the other a 45-year-old honey vault with a jaw-dropping 100 gallons inside. Oh, and before all that — the host crunches this year's colony loss numbers. The bees are doing a little better, but as one industry leader puts it, that's still less "victory lap" and more "crisis in slow motion." Buckle up, beekeepers — it's a big one. VIDEO VERSION [https://youtu.be/nBAQeBZb6d0] Special thanks to our presenting sponsor, Mann Lake! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] Mann Lake discount code: MLBEELOVE10 for $10 off your next order. Follow Us: https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/] https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/] Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com [Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com] Yappy Beeman: https://swarmremover.com/ [https://swarmremover.com/] https://www.youtube.com/@YappyBeeman [https://www.youtube.com/@YappyBeeman]

"Condensing" Beehives - Why & How

Before 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 just a weird year for cargo. Then the real magic begins: mechanical-engineer-turned-beekeeper Bill Hesbach drops some serious hive-mind wisdom on condensing hives, the practice of letting bees manage their own internal climate instead of beekeepers cranking up the ventilation. _____________ $10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] • Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10 _________________ Turns out our buzzy friends are basically tiny thermodynamics geniuses — using CO2 to chill their metabolism, recycling latent heat from condensation, and even running their own swamp coolers in summer. Who knew beekeeping came with a side of physics class? The conversation gets delightfully nerdy (volcano-buried hives! snow as insulation! queens partying in CO2 chambers!) before Bill explains how to DIY your own insulated hive sleeve — and why a "quilt box" might be sabotaging your bees without you knowing it. Things wrap up with two classic wild & crazy beekeeper tales: a swarm-catching fiasco involving mistaken identity (turns out bees are sneaky little ninjas) and a jungle honey-hunt in Thailand that ends with giant Apis dorsata bees chasing panicked undergrads through snake-infested streams. Equal parts science lecture and adventure story — this one's a hive worth diving into. VIDEO VERSION [https://youtu.be/6d3189F9830] Special thanks to our presenting sponsor, Mann Lake! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] Mann Lake discount code: MLBEELOVE10 for $10 off your next order. Follow Us: https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/] https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/] Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com [Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com] Bill: https://www.wingdancehoney.com/ [https://www.wingdancehoney.com/]

Rescuing Bees In Cornwall, England

Host 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. Molly specializes in live bee removals — rescuing honeybee colonies from chimneys, walls, flat roofs, and other structures — and has grown what started as a two-hive hobby into an operation managing roughly 300 beehives across mid-Cornwall. ______________ $10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] • Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10 _________________ The conversation covers her techniques, tools, the Cornwall beekeeping season, and pest management. Plus, Molly shares a couple of wild & crazy, memorable beekeeping stories that you won't want to miss... including how the pant leg of her beekeeping suit caught on fire! Video Version of This Episode [https://youtu.be/QTe8jKLzCSI] Special thanks to our presenting sponsor, Mann Lake! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] Mann Lake discount code: MLBEELOVE10 for $10 off your next order. Follow Us: https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/] https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/] Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com [Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com] The Honeycomb Conjecture: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004540010071 [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004540010071] Molly Earl: https://beesoff.co.uk/ [https://beesoff.co.uk/]

Naked & Afraid Beekeeping

In this fun episode of Bee Love Beekeeping, host Eric Bennett sits down with Tara Skubella and Darrin Reay — survivalists best known from Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid — to talk all things honey bees and beekeeping. The duo shares their passion project: a custom apitherapy bee hut built atop four Langstroth hives, where visitors breathe healing pheromones and soak up therapeutic vibrations without a single sting. ______________ $10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] • Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10 _________________ Darren, a fabricator-turned-beekeeper with 13 hives and three consecutive winters of zero colony loss, also breaks down his smart insulation strategy — R40 on the lid, R10 on the walls — mimicking how wild bees survive in hollow trees and cliff crevices. Tara balances Darrin's nuts-and-bolts beekeeping approach by describing herself as a "bee alchemist" who leads breathwork retreats inside the hut and helps guests build genuine relationships with their colonies. Throw in Darrin's chaotic story of catching a swarm from atop a truck bed with a stepladder, Tara's near-miss with Africanized killer bees in Panama, and a beekeeper who runs a queen retirement home, and you've got one of the most entertaining beekeeping conversations you'll hear all year. Video Version of This Episode [https://youtu.be/cXCw4FMJTRw] Special thanks to our presenting sponsor, Mann Lake! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] Mann Lake discount code: MLBEELOVE10 for $10 off your next order. Follow Us: https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/] https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/] Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com [Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com] Tara & Darrin: https://www.beezenhuts.com/ [https://www.beezenhuts.com/] https://www.instagram.com/alpinewonderer/ [https://www.instagram.com/alpinewonderer/] https://www.instagram.com/tskubella/ [https://www.instagram.com/tskubella/]

Bee Venom Therapy • Drone Races • Making Queens

Hold onto your veils, because this week's episode is a wild ride through the wonderful world of beekeeping with Ohio-based guest Emily Mueller, a certified master herbalist, doctoral student, homeschooling mom of four, and — most importantly — a certified crazy bee lady. Beekeeper Emily schooled us on the art of drone races, the jaw-dropping healing powers of propolis for cavities and cold sores, and bee venom therapy, which she's been administering to herself and others for more than a decade. ______________ $10 off your next order! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] • Discount Code: MLBEELOVE10 _________________ Emily also walked us through her swarm removal business, her queen-rearing process, her propolis mineral paste (6,000 jars sold!), and the time she caught a flying queen mid-air with her bare hands from the top of a 50-foot ladder. She's also the beekeeper who talks to her bees, scolds them when they misbehave, and credits the hive with giving her a meditative calm she never found elsewhere. Whether you're a seasoned beekeeper or just bee-curious, this episode delivers equal parts science, soul, and sheer chaos. Video Version of This Episode [https://youtu.be/uUzwYeK5FbQ] Special thanks to our presenting sponsor, Mann Lake! https://www.mannlakeltd.com/ [https://www.mannlakeltd.com/] Mann Lake discount code: MLBEELOVE10 for $10 off your next order. Follow Us: https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/follow/] https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/ [https://www.beelovebeekeeping.com/] Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com [Eric@BeeLoveBeekeeping.com] Emily Mueller: https://www.muellerhoneybee.org/ [https://www.muellerhoneybee.org/] https://www.facebook.com/MuellerHoneyBee [https://www.facebook.com/MuellerHoneyBee]