Kamon Reynolds is the co-founder of one of North America’s largest bee conferences, Hive Live , is the founder of Tennessee’s Bees and has been keeping bees in North Central Tennessee for 20 years.

Kamon keeps 300 hives with his wife Laurel. Kamon and Laurel also have filmed hundreds of educational videos to help new and veteran beekeepers around the world keep their bees successfully. Though Kamon does 99% of the talking, Laurel has been Beekeeping for 16 years and is an invaluable part of their Business Tennessee’s Bees LLC. Tennessee’s Bees specializes in quality Bee Genetics, Pure Tennessee Honey, and Honeybee Education. Their videos can be found on YouTube.

Kamon currently has 50,000+ beekeepers that follow him on YouTube.

Cory Stevens comes to us from his 27 acre farm in Bloomfield, MO, which he manages for wildlife and pollinator habitat. Cory and his wife Jaime own Stevens Bee Company where they select for mite resistant VSH stock. Cory is a Past President of Missouri State Beekeepers Association, and earned a MS in entomology from University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He was certified as a Master Beekeeper by EAS in 2013, and trained by Sue Cobey in 2014 to instrumentally inseminate queen bees. He slips bees into random conversation with strangers, and annoys his wife by constantly talking about bees.

Morgan Roth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biology & Chemistry at Liberty University

After completing my B.S. in zoology, Morgan started working for Dr. Aaron Gross as a research assistant and M.S. student at Virginia Tech in 2017. Throughout her M.S. program, she studied varroa mite acaricide resistance in VA and tested several known and novel acaricides against small hive beetle larvae and honey bees. After completing an M.S. degree, Morgan continued to research small hive beetle physiology and behavior as part of a Ph.D. research at Virginia Tech. The Ph.D. research included testing small hive beetle antennal responses to a series of attractant and repellent compounds and contrasting these responses with an behavioral test performed on small hive beetles using olfactometry experiments. Throughout this work, Morgan was able to discover which repellents were most effective against small hive beetles and found that some repellents could obscure responses to attractants in behavioral testing. After graduating with a Ph.D. this past spring, Morgan began working as an assistant professor at Liberty University, where she is currently working to establish an apiary, both for teaching beekeeping to students and continuing her work with honey bee pests. Morgan’s hope is that her research can one day be applied in apiary settings in the form of safe and effective repellents, which could help prevent small hive beetles from discovering and entering apiaries.