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.

A cup of coffee in one hand, David Blair rolls up the garage door to his warehouse and points out a few remaining 55-gallon barrels filled with honey. “We…

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 lack of rain and snow over the past four years has affected the agriculture industry statewide. That impact includes one of the smallest farmed…