Mr. Adee (pronounced Ay-Dee) is America’s largest beekeeper, and this is his busy season. Some 92,000 hives had to be deployed before those buds burst into blossom so that his bees could get to the crucial work of pollination. Whatever the reason, in the year…
A Montana beekeeper says thieves got away with 488 beehives he had taken to California to pollinate almond trees. Thieves used semitrailers to steal about 190,000 bees between Monday night and Tuesday morning in Yuba City, California. Read the whole story on Fox 2 by…
Hopefully this sort of theft doesn’t find itself to the east coast of the United States. To complicate matters, bee brokers who arrange contracts between beekeepers and almond growers are discovering that there are not enough beehives to go around, driving up demand, rental costs…
