The largest controlled bee migration on Earth happens every February—and it’s starting now with Sean Nelson and Daron Howland and their fully loaded Peterbilts seen here on I-80 headed to California 🐝 🐝🚛 🐝 About 2 million honey bee colonies, nearly three-quarters of all U.S. commercial bees, are hauled into California’s Central Valley to pollinate almond orchards every February. The bloom lasts roughly three weeks. 🌳 California produces ~80% of the world’s almonds, and almonds don’t self-po

As a new-bee you can learn a lot by looking and observing your hive. Here are two behaviours that can sometimes be confused. Swarming and orientation flights. Swarming: Swarming is a honey bee colony's natural means of reproduction. In the process of swarming, a single colony splits into two or more distinct colonies. The queen leaves and about half the hive follows, workers filled with honey stores, to find and make a new home. Orientation flights: Bees take orientation flights in the days prec

In honor of the first day of spring (today in the Northern hemisphere!), check out this bird migration dataset. Each dot represents a different bird species. Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/bird-migration-patterns-western-hemisphere/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere