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Escalating Cost of Growing Almonds

Growing almonds isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's expensive. The next time you're enjoying a ice cream bar coated with almonds or a salad with toasted almonds, think not only about the honey bees, but the growers. The Almond Board of California...

Honey Bee
Honey Bee

HONEY BEE pollinating an almond blossom today at the half-acre Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a bee friendly garden at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

In the Pink
In the Pink

HONEY BEE zeroes in on an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pollen Load
Pollen Load

POLLEN LOAD of honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, March 7, 2011 at 7:46 PM

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