NEWCASTLE (CBS13) — Beautiful blossoms are emerging across Northern California, and those blooms mark the start of an agricultural event like no other — something beekeepers call the big dance. Hidden ...

Feb. 15—New reports of a honeybee shortage have thrown new uncertainty into the annual almond pollination just as trees have started blooming across the Central Valley. In a sharp turnaround from glut ...

The weather is cold so what is happening to the bees? Bees go into the hive in a ball called a cluster. As the temperature ...

A glass of dairy milk produces almost three times more greenhouse gas than any plant-based milk. But vegan options have drawbacks of their own ...

Even after a bruising year of lower earnings, crop losses and soaring production costs, California almond growers may not be willing to cut corners pollinating their trees this season. That’s good ...

California is the world’s greatest producer of almonds, although the crop is not native to the region. Almond farmers rely on pollination from bees, but past practices have endangered the very insects ...

One of the nation’s top snack companies plans to exclusively source its almonds from “bee-friendly farmland” across the globe by 2025. KIND Healthy Snacks said it expects its almond suppliers to ...

Bees play a vital role in the pollination of more than 1.5 million acres of almond trees in California. A staggering loss of bee deaths nationwide could trigger a spike in hive thefts, authorities say ...

Each year, millions upon millions of honey bees go on a cross country road trip to make the California almond harvest possible. That semi truck next to you on the highway may be carrying something ...

One of the biggest events in the bee industry is going to start in California — almond pollination. Remember from earlier writings it took 3,600 semi-trucks to transport the bees for the almond ...

Rented bees by the billions have been at work in Central Valley almond orchards, tasked with pollinating the 2020 crop. It has happened amid renewed scrutiny over whether this process – crucial to ...

California’s almond business has skyrocketed in the past 20 years — it’s now an $11 billion industry — and the space taken up by almond groves in the state’s Central Valley is approximately the size ...