The BEE-GUARDS Podcast

Today’s guest speaker is Martin Gabel, researcher at the Bee Institute Kirchhain in Germany, part of Landesbetrieb Landwirtschaft Hessen, and an important contributor to Work Package 1 — Management for Resilience, and...

Welcome to the BEE-GUARDS podcast — a Horizon Europe project working to strengthen resilient beekeeping, protect pollinator biodiversity, and support sustainable beekeeping practices across Europe. All relevant links...

In this episode, we speak with Wolfgang Pointecker, president of the Austrian Commercial Beekeepers Association and a commercial beekeeper himself. Drawing on his own day-to-day experience in professional beekeeping...

In this episode, we explore how scientists are working to protect the future of honey bees through cryopreservation. As part of the BEE-GUARDS project, researchers are building a European network of cryobanks and...

Today our guest is Ralph Büchler, well known for his long-standing work in varroa-resistant bee breeding. For many years, he was the head of the Beekeeping Institute in Kirchhain, Germany—an institute strongly focused...

Victoria Soroker is our well-known BEE-GUARDS member from Israel. Over the years, her research has focused on the challenges of Varroa, helping to develop more sustainable solutions for beekeepers. In this episode, we...

Steve Riley is a dedicated beekeeper committed to developing varroa-tolerant bees. He blends hands-on experience with smart, data-driven breeding methods, all aimed at strengthening colony health through selective...

Chile’s landscape stretches from the world’s driest desert in the north to icy fiords and glaciers in the south. Towering Andes mountains run along its eastern edge, shaping dramatic valleys and active volcanoes. The...

Whoopie 9 and 1. Update on the planning and interaction with the beekeeping stakeholders to produce an interactive WikiBEEdia and how it is to be a test apiary running the innovative varroa management.

Whoopie 4. Holobiont. Get insight into the secrets of the holobionts by Melanie Parejo from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Whoopie 4 will provide a handbook for standard methods in bee hologenomic...

Cozy conversation with Dylan Elen, about the innovative varroa treatment but also the importance to conserve the subspecies of Apis mellifera. The conversation comes close to activities within the BEE-GUARDS and what is...

BEE-GUARDS aim is to strengthen the resilience of beekeeping beyond our project partners. Flemming Vejsnæs, did meet Maria Fedoriak who is one of our MAF members (member of our multi actor forum) in Padova telling us...

The Wilde family business, a well-known big queen breeder operation with focus on artificial insemination. In the BEE-GUARDS project they the testing of innovative varroa management. The story of a family company and...

Giles Budge, Newcastle Upon Tyne. The Scientist behind BEE-GUARDS. We are very curious, so we try to have conversations with our partners on what background and what else they are doing of scientific work.

Whoopie 3. Monitoring & Modeling. Janez Presern from Agricultural Institute of Slovenija talking about that WP3 serves as an integration hub for the data we collect. What do we collect? We have established an...