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this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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Who needs that many bees? Is it hard to breed them locally?
There is a bee farm here in NM that leases their bees to an almond farm in California. Every year when they get home they sell off their extra hives with queen and bees.
Yeah it’s most likely agriculture. Gotta pollinate those crops. I imagine the scale of industrial farming is too large to just rely on local and wild pollinators.
It's not the scale, per se; it's the monoculture. They can't just keep bees next to the same field year-round because with only one kind of plant flowering, they would starve once its bloom was over. So they end up trucking them between places with different crops instead.
Ah I see. That makes sense.