Brandon Hopkins

Recorded live at the Pacific Northwest Beekeeping Conference, Jeff Ott moderates a panel featuring Adam Pachl, Dr. David Peck, Dr. Brandon Hopkins, Kamon Reynolds, and Fred Dunn. They discuss Varroa management, resistant stock, RNAi, invasive pests, brood breaks, queen caging, amitraz resistance, oxalic acid, mite monitoring, warm winters, and practical steps beekeepers can take now to prepare colonies for winter.

Recorded live in Fargo, Randy Oliver, Dr. Izzy Hill, and Dr. Brandon Hopkins join Jeff and Becky to discuss the future of beekeeping. The panel explores honey prices, pollination economics, regenerative agriculture, declining forage, honey authenticity, new honey bee health products, government policy, research, and what it will take to attract another generation of beekeepers. The conversation ultimately asks a bigger question: How do we protect not only honey bee colonies, but the people and agricultural systems that make beekeeping possible?

On today’s episode, we welcome Dr Brandon Hopkins of Washington State University back to the podcast to talk about his recent research on the benefits of indoor banking of honey bee queens in temperature-controlled storage facilities. Traditionally,...

Would you believe varroa mites, carbon dioxide and indoor wintering are working together to make keeping bees easier and more profitable? Well, believe it. Today, we talk with Dr. Brandon Hopkins from Washington State University. His research has...