Sentences with phrase «pollinate almond orchards»

Out of the 2.4 million commercial bee colonies in the country, 1.3 million only pollinate almond orchards.

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Leaf - cutter bees and alkali bees pollinate alfalfa, the blue orchard bee pollinates fruit trees (especially almonds), wild bee species Osmia aglaia and O. bruneri pollinate raspberries and blackberries, and O. ribifloris is effective at tending to blueberries.

So far, she and her colleagues have found that the blue orchard bees seem to efficiently pollinate the almonds, but no significant populations live near the fields, and collecting them elsewhere could deplete another ecosystem.

At two hives per acre, it now costs roughly $ 500 million to pollinate California's 1.25 million acres of almond orchards.