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About Bees, Culture & CuriosityA Rose among the Bees Season 4 Episode 2: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – A Rose among the Bees With Rose, our conversation starts with a bee walking on Ron's neck, progresses to a stash of wax, some bee work, civilization, parasites, and beeswax, beeswax church candles, bees coming to America, mead, monks, America's first pauper (who was a beekeeper), tomato pollination, Rose's training of dogs to find foulbrood, and so much more. This episode was recorded in April, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/5...2025-05-0854 minAbout Bees, Culture & CuriosityDogs That Smell BeesSeason 1 Episode 8: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Dogs That Smell We talk with Rose-Anne Bouffard, a bee enthusiast who trains dogs to find and rescue wayward bumblebee nests and to locate colonies with American Foulbrood (AFB). Dog breeds and their amazing scent sensitivity are discussed. Bloodhounds are best for sniffing out bumblebee nests and honeybee diseases, but that's not what Rose uses. Humans have million scent receptors and can smell AFB, but dogs have thirty million receptors. Dogs also use their floppy ears to stir up scents. The bee-rescuing dogs were trained through fin...2024-09-161h 24