Every February in California, the almond trees bloom, sparking a massive migration of commercial beekeepers to the Golden State. With box hives stacked high onto semi-truck trailers, they transport their honeybee colonies to almond orchards in the Sacramento and San Joaquin areas of California’s Central Valley, renting the little workers out to farmers. In recent decades, this practice has grown to become the largest managed pollination effort in the world, sometimes called the ‘Super Bowl of beekeeping.’
A tale of almonds and bees
Today in History
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Staring down winter
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World Population Day
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Presidents Day
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Museum Mile Festival
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On this shore, history was made
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World Wildlife Day
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Dunes at White Sands National Park, New Mexico
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This reef is nowhere near the sea…
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A triumph of light
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Flowers by the sea
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Edinburgh festivals
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Hooray, hooray, it s Unicorn Day!
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Noctilucent clouds
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Looking back on 150 years of rail travel
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Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England
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Audubon Christmas Bird Count
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Birds of the Drömling
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World Environment Day
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World Nature Conservation Day
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