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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Batten down the hatches
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Spiegelgracht canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Porto, Portugal
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Diwali lights in Guwahati, India
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Back to the nest
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Tigh Mor Trossachs on Loch Achray, Scotland
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Masai giraffes in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
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Fall comes to Pando
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International Day for Biosphere Reserves
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Pups of the prairie
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Big dreams require a big sleigh
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Sailing on thick ice
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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Step into the dark
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Seattle, Washington
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Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan
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Friendship Day in the City of Brotherly Love
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Staircase of turquoise pools
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Scotts Bluff National Monument, Gering, Nebraska
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Poinsettia Day
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Salt ponds of Maras, Peru
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It s leap day!
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Edinburgh festivals
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Totally Thames Festival, London
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Park of the Monsters, Bomarzo, Italy
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American bison
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From garden to table?
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Tennis in the park
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Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
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