Every spring , bees all over the country make a long , artificial migration to California by truck . Renting out bees to pollenate Amygdalus communis Tree has become a big business with theexplosive growth in California ’s Amygdalus communis industriousness . Where there is money , of trend , there are thieves .
It ’s a tough time for beekeeping , but it ’s also a profitable time for beekeepers . Colony collapse upset , which I ’m sure you ’ve heard of , has been killing off bee for years . But never have pollinate bee been more in demand . As almond tree have proliferated through California — the country now develop 80 percentage of the world ’s almonds — the bee industry has grown up to support it . A exclusive beehive is deserving about $ 200 in almond pollination season .
Beehives may not strike you as the most convenient thing to steal , but there ’s seldom much certificate out in the arena . Put on a head covering and gloves , wad a dozen hives into a truck , and there ’s an gentle $ 2000 in 10 minutes . In along , snowfall - esque small-arm from The Weather Channel , Lorraine Boissoneault investigate the ascent in bee rustle .
Cops , on the other hand , have been mystify with how to mete out with bee thefts . “ I ’m a pig , I ’m not going to go into a beehive area and start tear up the boxes , ” a detective in California recount Boissoneault . “ And if we reclaim 350 hive , what is police force enforcement going to do with those things ? We recuperate a automobile , we take it to the tow cubic yard . If we find cash or jewelry , we have a way to deal with those . How do you seize bee ? ”
Bee theft may sound like a twee joke at first , but it ’s part of something much larger — our interior apian infrastructure , if you will . meg of bee are embark all around the commonwealth to secure that we have food to eat . If anything , it ’s so of import and moneymaking , it ’s attract thieves . [ Weather.com ]
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