Category: Agriculture

Scientists find culprit behind California honeybee deaths in almond groves

Image credit:https://www.motherjones.com/food/2014/04/california-almond-farms-blamed-honeybee-die/ Every February in the United States, beekeepers from around the nation pack up their colonies and head to California to pollinate the Golden State’s almond trees. Almond growers pay around USD$300 million to rent these hives and without the bees, there would quite simply be no almonds. In 2014, […]