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Press

2025 WPTF Radio in Raleigh: UNC Greensboro Scientist is Protecting Pollinators in NC

2025 Spectrum News Coverage: NC Honey Bee Health Technology

2024 Kate Woodworth Substack: Food Curious, One Clover, & a Bee, & Revery

2024 Mod Society Magazine feature (July/August edition, p41): Mod Society Magazine

2024 Two Bees in a Podcast interview (episode 174): Hygiene-Eliciting Brood Semiochemicals as a Tool…

2024 Pennsylvania Beekeeper Article (p 27): One Small Test… One Giant Leap in Evolutionary Progress

2024 Beekeeping Today Podcast: Dr. Kaira Wagoner: Hygienic Bee Behavior

2024 American Bee Journal Article (p 525): Revealing Hygienic Behavior with UBeeO

2023 Triad Business Journal Triad Inno Article: Startups to Watch – Optera

2023 Project Apis m Article: A New Honey bee Breeding Tool Hits the Market!

2023 Made in Greensboro feature: Kaira Wagoner and Phoebe Snyder, Scientist Entrepreneurs

2022 UNC Greensboro Research Magazine feature: Bee Business

2022 UNC Greensboro Alumni Magazine feature: Kaira Wagoner, All the Buzz

2022 Royal Flemish Beekeeping Society Article (subscription required): Koninklijke Vlaamse Imkersbond

2021 Project Apis m Article: Tackling Many Fronts – Newly Funded Research Projects at Pam

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