Nearly ninety percent of honeybees in the United States used for pollination services travel to California each year, mostly for almond production.

USDA’s Economic Research Service has issued a new report tracking honeybee movement and found California almond pollination made up 80 percent of pollination services in 2017.

Jennifer Bond says almond acreage nearly doubled in the last decade.

“A pretty significant increase in the number of bearing acres and as expected an increase in demand for pollination services,” she says.

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