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Almond Pollination Season Ought to Be About Almond Pollination
When friends own almond acreage, and invite you to see the bees and the blossoms on a brilliant day in mid-February, you go. Of course, you go. Almond pollination season is a delight to see and record. Almonds rank No. 2 among California's most valued agricultural commodities, right...
A brilliant day in an Esparto almond orchard on Feb. 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee pollinating an almond blossom in Esparto. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The girls bringing home the pollen from an Esparto almond orchard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Real Almond Joy
California's almond pollination season typically starts in mid-February, around Valentine's Day, but along the Benicia waterfront, the almond trees sometimes blossom as early as Jan. 1. The climate is warm and temperate. The bees are hungry, eager to leave their hives to gather pollen and...
Almond blossoms greet the sky and bees in this image taken at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park in Benicia on Jan. 30, 2012. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee forages on an almond blossom, gathering nectar and pollen for her colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This honey bee can't get enough of the nectar and pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Apis mellifera, we have lift-off! Time to head for another almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hear That Buzz? Almond Pollination Season Is Approaching
Hear that buzz? California almond pollination season is approaching. The season usually begins around Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, but we usually see the first-of-the-year almond blooms in mid-January in a hot spot near the Benicia marina. That's where we saw them on Jan. 23, but they've...
An almond blossom graces an area near the Benicia marina on Jan. 23, 2021. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee packing her pollen on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, before returning to her hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee hives in front of an almond orchard on March 8, 2019 in Dixon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California's Almond Pollination Season: Just Buzzin'
Did you hear that buzz in California's almond orchards? It takes about two colonies per acre to pollinate California's 1.2 million acres of almonds. That's about 2.5 million bee colonies trucked here from throughout the country. And now the 2020 almond pollination season, which began around...
A honey bee pollinating an almond tree on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Up over and around...a honey bee circles an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bottoms up! A honey bee foraging on an almond blossom on an older tree on Bee Biology Road. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Meet the President of the American Honey Producers
January is cold in Bruce, S.D., where the average nighttime temperature dips to 3 degrees. Beekeeper Kelvin Adee, who hails from Bruce, isn't experiencing any of that right now. He's in California--and so are his bees for the almond pollination season. Adee is the president of the American...
Beekeepers are gearing up for the California almond polination season, which usually starts around Feb. 14. Here, in this file photo, an industrious bee forages on an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
