{"podcast":{"title":"Breeding the Honeybee","slug":"breeding-the-honeybee-5581713","podcast_index_feed_id":5581713,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/breeding-the-honeybee","website_url":"https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cUJO2OIF2dkYL2zJFEmdODTw8CvbZaGyxP3CR8QFtc0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyNTIwLzE2NTc5/Njk4NDItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Brent Nixon","episode_count":40,"summary":"All about bee breeding. Episodes range from: bee genetics, stories about bee breeding, analysis of research and interviews with people in this field.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T02:17:11.969737+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breeding-the-honeybee-5581713"},"episode":{"title":"27) Cory Stevens (US)","slug":"27-cory-stevens-us","published_at":"2024-07-16T11:26:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breeding-the-honeybee-5581713/27-cory-stevens-us","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breeding-the-honeybee-5581713","url":"https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/pages/27-cory-stevens-us-breeding-the-honeybee-podcast","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/18f1b640/69ba1720.mp3","summary":"Cory Stevens is a VSH queen breeder from Missouri, USA. He has a business called Steven’s Bee Company which offers AI VSH breeder queens, VSH virgin queens and raw honey free of miticides and antibiotics. Cory's Website and Facebook https://www.stevensbeeco.com/ https://www.facebook.com/stevensbeeco Comment or leave feedback on the episode post in the Facebook group for this podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/breedingthehoneybee Record a soundbite about your queen rearing here https://nixonqueenbees.com.au/pages/podcast This podcast is proudly brought to you by Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees in Ballarat Australia. Email Brent at brent@nixonqueenbees.com.au 00:00 Introduction 1:50 Guest question - Matt Crane - Is there a correlation between colour and VSH? 3:20 Guest question - Steve Sammut - Is there a correlation between UBeeO and VSH? 5:00 Guest question - Paul Roder - Is there a correlation between bald brood and VHS? 7:00 Cory’s commercial program in which he sends out breeders and gets back high performing F1s 8:50 How the F1s in the program are assessed 10:07 UbeeO and overwintering 12:53 Harbo Assay 13:42 Are F1s in the program treated? 17:16 What traits are desirable in returning F1s? 19:10 Colour and VSH - Harbo Episode Music https://audionautix.com/","meta_description":"Cory Stevens is a VSH queen breeder from Missouri, USA. He has a business called Steven’s Bee Company which offers AI VSH breeder queens, VSH virgin queen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1352,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breeding-the-honeybee-5581713/episodes/27-cory-stevens-us/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breeding-the-honeybee-5581713/27-cory-stevens-us.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}