Season 1 Episode 4: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – The Bees’ Ears In this episode, we discover that insects, including bees, can hear. They have three ways of picking up sound – through their antennae, their feet, and through their armour (exoskeleton). Since bees can hear, does music calm the bees and reduce stings? And since bees can h…

Season 1 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Do Bees Feel Pain? We often expect to be on the receiving end of pain - whether from a broken elbow or from the tail-end of a bee. But what about bees? Do small creatures feel pain? Is it just a matter of defining pain in a way that we can claim bees feel no pain - or that they do, indee…

Season 1 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Tolstoy and the Robber Bees Leo Tolstoy was a beekeeping fanatic. He even managed to work his bees into Anna Karenina, as well as War and Peace. In this episode of About Bees, Culture & Curiosity, we take a shallow dive into deep Russian literature, and look at the conflicted life and de…

Season 1 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Myths and Legends What we think we know might not be true. Did you know that Einstein once warned us that without bees, humans would go extinct in four years? Did you know that honey bees are going extinct? That archeologists found 3000-year-old honey that was as good as new? That you ca…

The About Bees, Culture & Curiosity podcast explores the world of bees (and their entomological cousins) with ample attention to culture and the curiosities of the entire insect world. Bidzina Mosiashvili is a young beekeeper facing the challenges of managing a few colonies and growing a business of bees. He brings fresh, thoughtful insights and qu…