Behind the Veil

Ep. 9 - Inventing The Flow Hive with Cedar Anderson

Nearly 20 years ago, Cedar Anderson set out to design an easier way to get honey from his beehives. Together with his father, Stu, he invented the Flow Hive—a revolutiona

Ep. 8 - Creating Virtual Reality for Bees with Gregory Lafon

What does it take to create a virtual world for bees that lets us study how they learn? Gregory Lafon is at the forefront of using this technique to study honey bee cogni

Ep. 7 - Watching Bees Sleep with Manuel Giannoni Guzman

Bees rely on their sense of time to navigate and find food. Is there a chance that pesticides alter this sense of time? Manuel Giannoni Guzman is a postdoctoral scholar a

Ep. 6 - Teaching Young Beekeepers with Kamal Bell

Kamal Bell left his full-time job as a teacher to turn a 12-acre piece of land into a profitable farm and honeybee apiary. The goal? Educate young farmers and increase ac

Ep. 5 - Tracking Murder Hornets with Cassie Cichorz

Cassie Cichorz is the Asian Giant Hornet outreach and education specialist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture. In this episode, she tells the story of how

Ep. 4 - Teaching Bees Math with Dr. Scarlett Howard

Dr. Scarlett Howard is a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia. She’s asking the question: can bees do math? In this episode, she talks

Ep. 3 - Testing Fake Honey with Dr. Jim Gawenis

There are millions of dollars being poured into trying to pass off cheap syrup as honey. Jim Gawenis is trying to stop it. He is the CEO and chief chemist of Sweetwater S

Ep. 2 - Studying Deadly Mites with Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman

As the research leader of the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman has received grants for her research

Ep. 1 - Creating the Netflix of Bees with Justin Maness

Justin Maness is the founder of Buddha Bee Apiary, a company that installs and manages beehives in backyards across North Carolina. They do all the work and provide the e

Trailer: Behind the Veil

Trailer: Behind the Veil