Terry Oxford is a rooftop beekeeper in San Francisco. On this episode of the podcast we discuss her natural beekeeping methods and her efforts to stop the use of systemic neonicotinoid pesticides such as Imidacloprid. Terry’s website is Urban Bee San Francisco. We get into a lot of topics including:

• Keeping bees on rooftops in San Francisco
• Ants and small hive beetles
• Natural beekeeping
• Splitting
• Natural beekeeper Michael Bush’s website
• Pesticide activism
• Treatment of nursery trees with neonicotinoids
• Senate bill 602 that would have required labeling of nursery plants treated with neonicotinoids
• How the California State Beekeeper’s Association lobbies for the pesticide industry
• How to find a nursery tree not treated with Imidacloprid
• City trees and treatment
• Terry’s bee art
• The Man Who Planted Trees
• Corruption in academia
• US Right To Know

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