On today's episode, I sit down with Brian Spiesman, a community and landscape ecologist at the University of Kansas, who is broadly interested in how environmental change affects the diversity and function of ecological communities. He has a focus on understanding how land cover change affects communities of plants and their pollinators. The goal of his research is to wrangle knowledge of complex systems for the effective conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Brian also helped create the Bee Machine™, an application for identifying bumble bee species using machine learning. We discuss the Bee Machine and what it does, how it was developed, how it works, and the future of the application. We also discuss the relationship between habitat and the web of species that rely on each other for survival.

Links to Brian's work and SM accounts-

Brians Twitter- https://twitter.com/BrianSpiesman

Brian's Website- https://spiesmanecology.com/

Bee Machine Twitter- https://twitter.com/BeeMachineAI

Bee Machine Website- https://beemachine.ai/

Sponsor- Kinnickinnic Bees

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I sit down with Emily Pedzinski, a YouTube™ beekeeper blazing her path in her beekeeping business. Emily joins to discuss her YouTube™ channel and how she is using Discord to help reach her audience and grow her beekeeping business as it evolves into different beekeeping strategies as well as how she hopes to grow her business.  

Emily's Links- 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjwvWim46dlNGsgwqmu1HMA 

https://discord.gg/6SCzY7JZ 

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Hyve Time™ Podcast Episode #17  We are back at it with this episode as I sit down with Dr. Heather Grab, an Entomologist from Cornell University in NY. We discuss many different topics, such as, habitat on farms and their interactions with local native bee populations and how honey bees may be competing for resources in limited habitat areas, as well as how honey bees as well as native bees interact with the hemp/ cannabis plant.   

For more information on Dr. Heather Grab- 

heathergrab@cornell.edu 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-grab/

landscape-agroecology.com 

https://cals.cornell.edu/heather-grab 

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https://twitter.com/solarwoof13 

https://twitter.com/HyperHyve