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Trent Loos - Trent On The Loos • Across The Pond • Rural Route Radio
Interview Series, Podcasts, Video

Trent Loos: Across the Pond – Dec 2, 2025

Dr. Kit joins from Australia after discovery new native bee, Lucipher. Read More

Squash bees pollinating. (Photo courtesy of Tamra Reall.)
Crops, Holidays, Video

Thank a pollinator for your Thanksgiving dinner

Bees on honeycomb (Iowa State University Extension and Outreach)
Iowa, Midwestern Region, Regional Roundup

Webinar to share beekeeping tips for beginners and experts on urban and rural farms

Soybean field (Photo courtesy of United Soybean Board)

EPA starts public comment period for dicamba re-approval

  • August 4, 2025
  • By David Murray
Expansion of AgriLife Extension’s beekeeping program has been an effort supported by the Texas Legislature and the Texas Beekeepers Association to meet the growing demand for science-based knowledge, instruction and resources that serves backyard beekeepers to commercial pollinator and honey production operations statewide. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Backyard beekeeper training takes flight

  • June 18, 2025
  • By Adam Russell │ Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Beekeeper checking a honeycomb full of bees and honey in the cells of his hive. (Photo: iStock - Diego Cerro Jimenez)

Heroes to Hives offers veterans training, camaraderie and purpose

  • November 7, 2024
  • By Linda Geist │ University of Missouri Extension
Madison Crawford, who received her bachelor’s and master’s in zoology and physiology from University of Wyoming, poses in front of a bee poster in Lusha Tronstad’s office. Crawford led a study that tested the hypothesis that wind turbine color attracts insects. She was lead author of a paper that was published recently in the journal Western North American Naturalist. (Photo by Lusha Tronstad.)

UW research points to bug benefits from changing color of wind turbines

  • September 20, 2023
  • By UWEAG NEWS
(Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture.)

Tulsa beekeeping workshop available in September

  • August 14, 2023
  • By Gail Ellis │ Oklahoma State University

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