Salon No. 48 - Michael Thiele and Benjamin Rutschmann
About this episode
The episode discusses findings from five years of ecological monitoring of honeybee colonies at Galbreath Wildlands Preserve.
Five Years of Listening: What the Bees at Galbreath Are Teaching Us In this podcast we are delighted share the results of five years of ecological monitoring at Galbreath Wildlands Preserve, one of the most sustained observations of honeybee colonies living as part of a wild landscape anywhere in the US. Michael Thiele, founder of Apis Arborea, is joined by Dr. Benjamin Rutschmann, visiting from Germany, to walk us through what this long-term work has revealed. Among the findings: colony lifespans and survival rates that challenge prevailing assumptions about what honeybees are capable of when they live on their own terms, as well as insights into natural colony densities. We explore what the free-living population at Galbreath is teaching us about the resilience of the wild, and how these colonies serve as a compass point for innovative models of apiculture that draw on biomimicry and integrate evolutionary processes. About Dr. Benjamin Rutschmann Benjamin Rutschmann is a honeybee researcher and ecologist whose work centers on wild-living colonies, their nesting sites, and the forage resources that sustain them. He received his PhD from the University of Würzburg in 2022…
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