Honeybees

A honeybee research organization estimates as many as 1.6 million hives - more than half the country’s cultivated honeybee population - died off this past winter.

This story received a first place award from the Fresno County Farm Bureau in 2021. A cup of coffee in one hand, David Blair rolls up the garage door to…

Almonds are a nearly $3 billion industry here in the San Joaquin Valley—but without honeybees to pollinate the trees, there would be no harvest. By some…

On this week’s Valley Edition: We look at how pesticides may be contributing to honey bee deaths, and what that means for the $3 billion dollar almond…

Beekeepers flock from all over the country to California every February and March for bloom. During this time of year over 80 percent of the nation’s…

The series on the drought received a 2016 Golden Mike Award from the Radio Television News Association of Southern California. Read about other winners…