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
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Fibonacci Day
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Martin Luther King Day
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Male hooded merganser, Oregon
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National Rivers Month
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World Poetry Day
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A glittering diamond in the rough
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In the Navajo Nation for Code Talkers Day
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Happy Hobbit Day
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A day to take a moment
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Red squirrel
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National Lighthouse Day
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