The Honey Bee Health Coalition with Matt Mulica (S3, E44)

Meet Matt Mulica, Senior Project Director of The Honey Bee Health Coalition a group of more than 50 organizations who have come together to implement solutions to achieve a healthy population of native and managed pollinators. These include beekeepers, growers, researchers, government agencies, agribusiness, conservation groups and production agriculture.

Working together, they have identified several major areas they feel need the most attention. These include forage and nutrition, hive and certainly varroa management, and crop pest management. They've developed best management practices for corn, soybeans and canola, outreach to growers, beekeepers, agribusinesses, the pubic and anybody needing more information on any of these topics.

Over the course of several years, they have identified many, if not most of the issues affecting pollinators. In so doing, have discovered or created, solutions to reduce many of the problems honey bees and beekeepers face on a routine basis. The HBHC has developed hundreds of documents any of these groups can use to educate their members, along with hours and hours of videos on all of these topics. Best of all, all of this material is available FOR FREE.

Though this group is incredibly well versed in solving problems, there's one issue they struggle with and that's letting the world know they exist. Self-promotion can be difficult and we hope this episode exposes more of their work and the tools they've developed for everybody, especially beekeepers.

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Links and websites mentioned in this podcast:

• The Honey Bee Health Coalition - https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org
• Northern Bee Books - Ed Colby's book, "A Beekeeper's Life" - https://www.northernbeebooks.co.uk

• Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com

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