LACBA Speaker July 7, 2025 - Theresa Martin

Better Beekeeping with BroodMinder Temperature Sensors

Would it be helpful to know if your colony is queenright before opening the hive? Or that your colony swarmed? Would it be helpful to know if a Varroa mite treatment killed the queen? A simple, inexpensive temperature sensor inside the hive that pairs with a smart phone can do this and more. “Precision beekeeping” uses technology that improves decision making and revolutionizes beekeeping decisions to enable healthier, more productive colonies. In this presentation, Theresa Martin shares 5 real life examples and the improved outcomes enabled by temperature sensors.

BIOGRAPHY
Theresa Martin is the author of Dead Bees Don’t Make Honey: 10 Tips for Healthy Productive Bees, which includes a Foreword by Dr. Thomas Seeley. Theresa has achieved 99% colony survival and honey production that is twice the local average in her seven years as a beekeeper, with 20–25 colonies in Kentucky. She practices a beekeeping methodology that places bee health as the highest priority and optimal pathway to productivity. Following the model of how bees survive in the wild, employing integrated pest management, and providing high support yet low intervention, she demonstrates that healthy, alive bees are more productive than sick or dead bees. Theresa is a Cornell Master Beekeeper, 2024 Kentucky State Beekeeper of the Year, and Vice-President of the Kentucky State Beekeepers Association. She worked at Fidelity Investments and Procter & Gamble in information technology and operations management. Theresa can be reached at theresa@littlewolf.farm

My new book is now available!
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Bees-Dont-Make-Honey/dp/B0CY9G9C89

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