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They argue that the the law cannot protect the bees because it defines candidate species as “bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile or plant” and does not directly mention “insects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California listed the bees as endangered species it would set a harmful precedent for farmers and ranchers, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Food Safety filed a \u003ca href=\"https://defenders.org/sites/default/files/2020-01/2020-01-28%20Native%20Bees%20MTI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">motion\u003c/a> to intervene last month. Those groups seek to defend the state’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the environmentalists’ move is not surprising — their petition led to the bumblebees being proposed for protected status — it does add legal muscle to fight the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>The four bees are critically endangered and by the legal standards within the California Endangered Species Act should be listed,” said Kim Delfino, Defenders of Wildlife’s California program director. “We believe that insects should be protected under the state endangered species act.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=166804&inline\">report\u003c/a> found that the bee populations are in “steep decline,” in part because of pesticides and farmer-managed honeybee colonies. Bumblebees depend on abundant flowers and undisturbed habitat to nest and spend the winter, but officials say ranching and climate change threaten their habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin’s bumblebee, for example, is so threatened that California bee surveys have not detected the species since 1998. While state officials don’t yet believe the bee is extinct, the survey results suggest its distribution — already the smallest of any North American bumblebee species — is exhausted, the state’s listing report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote] The California Department of Fish and Wildlife found that bumblebee populations are in steep decline, in part because of pesticides and farmer-managed honeybee colonies.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Farm Bureau Federation \u003ca href=\"https://www.cottonfarming.com/special-report/seven-ag-groups-file-lawsuit-regarding-bumblebee-species/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argues\u003c/a> that the remedies the environmentalists proposed to protect the bumblebees — restricting grazing, pesticides and the use of commercial honeybees — would harm farmers and ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition of agricultural groups opposing the bee listing include the Almond Alliance of California, California Association of Pest Control Advisers, California Citrus Mutual, California Cotton Growers and Ginners Association and Western Agricultural Processors Association and Western Growers.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Farm and ranch associations say that if California lists the bees as endangered it would set a harmful precedent.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704847828,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":437},"headData":{"title":"Conservation Groups Join California in Legal Dispute Over Protecting Bumblebees | KQED","description":"Farm and ranch associations say that if California lists the bees as endangered it would set a harmful precedent.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bumblebees","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1956515/conservation-groups-join-california-in-legal-dispute-over-protecting-bumblebees","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Environmentalists are backing state wildlife officials in a legal dispute over critically threatened bumblebees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2018, the California Fish and Game Commission \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=170351&inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listed\u003c/a> four species — crotch, Franklin’s, suckley cuckoo and western bumblebee — as candidate species for protections under the state Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, the California Farm Bureau Federation and six other agricultural associations sued the state over that decision. They argue that the the law cannot protect the bees because it defines candidate species as “bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile or plant” and does not directly mention “insects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California listed the bees as endangered species it would set a harmful precedent for farmers and ranchers, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Food Safety filed a \u003ca href=\"https://defenders.org/sites/default/files/2020-01/2020-01-28%20Native%20Bees%20MTI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">motion\u003c/a> to intervene last month. Those groups seek to defend the state’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the environmentalists’ move is not surprising — their petition led to the bumblebees being proposed for protected status — it does add legal muscle to fight the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>The four bees are critically endangered and by the legal standards within the California Endangered Species Act should be listed,” said Kim Delfino, Defenders of Wildlife’s California program director. “We believe that insects should be protected under the state endangered species act.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=166804&inline\">report\u003c/a> found that the bee populations are in “steep decline,” in part because of pesticides and farmer-managed honeybee colonies. Bumblebees depend on abundant flowers and undisturbed habitat to nest and spend the winter, but officials say ranching and climate change threaten their habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin’s bumblebee, for example, is so threatened that California bee surveys have not detected the species since 1998. While state officials don’t yet believe the bee is extinct, the survey results suggest its distribution — already the smallest of any North American bumblebee species — is exhausted, the state’s listing report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":" The California Department of Fish and Wildlife found that bumblebee populations are in steep decline, in part because of pesticides and farmer-managed honeybee colonies.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Farm Bureau Federation \u003ca href=\"https://www.cottonfarming.com/special-report/seven-ag-groups-file-lawsuit-regarding-bumblebee-species/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argues\u003c/a> that the remedies the environmentalists proposed to protect the bumblebees — restricting grazing, pesticides and the use of commercial honeybees — would harm farmers and ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition of agricultural groups opposing the bee listing include the Almond Alliance of California, California Association of Pest Control Advisers, California Citrus Mutual, California Cotton Growers and Ginners Association and Western Agricultural Processors Association and Western Growers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1956515/conservation-groups-join-california-in-legal-dispute-over-protecting-bumblebees","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_36","science_40"],"tags":["science_3840","science_192","science_3370"],"featImg":"science_1956520","label":"source_science_1956515"},"news_11777723":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11777723","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11777723","score":null,"sort":[1570226401000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy","title":"Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy","publishDate":1570226401,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can hear how the bees are behaving — if they’re agitated, if there are other bees trying to get in the hive, or if it’s too crowded or too hot or too cold,” said Aerial Gilbert, an avid beekeeper in Petaluma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What you want to hear, she said, is a calm steady buzz. That indicates that everything in the hive is going smoothly. Gilbert tends to three beehives on her back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert went blind in 1988, beekeeping was one of the hobbies she figured she’d have to give up. But in the years since, she has found ways to do the things she used to before losing her sight. And that has meant relying a lot more on the power of sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual,” Gilbert said. “Now it’s the other senses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Bees Came in the Mail — With the Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is in her early 60s, but looks younger. She has a crop of black hair and an athletic frame. She used to be a nurse, and with the decisive yet gentle way she moves her hands, you sense she was good at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778063\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gilbert doesn’t hesitate to open the hives in her backyard and reach down into the humming mass of thousands of bees. Her fingers softly brush against their bodies, and they don’t seem to mind. She calls the bees her “girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was 10, a swarm of bees flew into her backyard looking for a new home. Hundreds of thousands of bees coalesced in a big buzzing ball on a tree. And they stayed, humming in a giant mass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'I can hear how the bees are behaving — if they’re agitated, if there are other bees trying to get in the hive, or if it’s too crowded or too hot or too cold.'[/pullquote]Gilbert’s grandfather remembered the name of a local beekeeper and gave him a call. He said he’d be happy to have the bees. Gilbert watched the beekeeper walk calmly over to the giant blob of bees and scoop them up with his bare hands. He carried the swarm back to his car and left. Gilbert was mesmerized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was a junior in high school, her parents finally capitulated to her demand for her own hive. She ordered her first bees from Sears and Roebuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in the mail, along with the hive,” she said. “The postman was terrified. He got to the door and my mom was there, and he just shoved them in her face and said, ‘These your bees, lady?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a long time for Gilbert to get used to being around bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started beekeeping I was afraid of them,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would gear up in a white suit with big thick gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's so much visual information you get by looking at the honeycomb and the brood nest,” Gilbert said. “I didn't think I could be a good beekeeper without being able to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vision Lost in an Instant\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert lost her vision in an instant. After working the night shift at Marin General Hospital in 1988, she stopped at a pharmacy to buy some eye drops. They had been tampered with, filled with drain cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt sorry for myself. I was afraid of everything. I kind of closed myself down to ‘you might as well be dead,’ ” she said. “I didn't think I could do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a long process of healing and realizing she wouldn’t get her vision back, not even some of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ... woke up one day and started projecting out what my life would be like because going in the direction I was going wasn’t working,” Gilbert said. “I had always been very active. Now I was going to have a really boring life if I didn’t do something to change this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual. Now it’s the other senses.'[/pullquote]There isn’t much information about the tampering. Gilbert settled with the company that made the eye drops and, as part of the deal, she isn’t supposed to go into detail about it with the media. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-04-mn-366-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> ran a short story about the tampering. It says, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The FBI and the federal Food and Drug Administration are probing an incident in which a nurse was blinded by eye drops contaminated with a caustic chemical. “Her left eye looks like it melted and her right eye looks like it’s covered with white glue,” said Richard Critchlow, an attorney for Gilbert Van Zee Miller, 34, of Fairfax in Marin County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert said her marriage ended when she lost her sight, and she couldn’t work as a nurse anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital gave her a job developing X-rays. She said that was the only place they were comfortable having a blind person work. Gilbert would sit in a small dark room all day, developing film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she was in despair. After six months it reached a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made the decision, no more feeling sorry for myself,” Gilbert said, “No more hiding, no more being afraid because I am allowing whoever this person was to still hurt me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then went to the state school for the blind in Albany, living there for six months and learning braille, how to orient herself and daily living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned a lot of basically the tricks of being blind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You Can Hear the Bees' Waggle Dance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, a friend had some hives she needed someone to look after. She asked Gilbert if she could. At first Gilbert hesitated, but she decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle. You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.'[/pullquote]As soon as the hives arrived, Gilbert was relieved. She was ecstatic to have bees back in her life. And she realized that much of the information about the bees she had gathered before with her eyes, she could now gather with her ears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever Gilbert is out working on the hives, she is listening to them, keeping tabs on how they sound. She also bought some microphones to make recordings inside the hive. Those recordings give her an audio snapshot of the bees’ condition and more specific insight into what’s happening inside the hives. She can hear the waggle dance, which is the movement bees make to tell others where to find pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only can Gilbert hear the dance, she has started to notice variations in the sound depending on where the pollen is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle,” Gilbert said. “You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='bees' label='Related Coverage']Getting back to beekeeping was a triumph for Gilbert, but that’s just one part of her life: She fell in love again and remarried. She has worked at a nonprofit called Guide Dogs for the Blind, was an active volunteer and has traveled extensively. It’s been a full life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, Gilbert donated one of her kidneys to a friend. The friend recovered, but the surgery didn’t go well for Gilbert: She suffered a rare complication that caused her remaining kidney to start failing. Gilbert has managed it for years, but now, she needs someone to donate a kidney to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert has had to spend a lot of time at home because of her health, and has been kept from many of the things she loves, like rowing. She has managed to continue taking care of her hives, and after losing bees once in her life, she doesn't want to go without them ever again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Entire Democratic Process Unfolding in a Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is not the first blind person to take an interest in bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'They came in the mail, along with the hive ... the postman was terrified.'[/pullquote]Swiss entomologist Francois Huber started losing his sight at age 15. In the 18th century, he made major discoveries about the lives of bees. He proved that bees use their antennae to communicate and that queens mate in the air. And he described how male drone bees — worker bees responsible for mating with the queen — were killed at the end of each summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those who are blind aren’t the only one listening to bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Tom Seeley at Cornell University are recording them to better understand their behavior. Seeley wrote a book called “Honeybee Democracy” that’s about the decision-making process inside a hive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeley said you can listen to an entire democratic process unfolding inside a hive: You can hear the high-pitched buzz of worker bees telling the queen it’s time to fly to a new home. There are short, high-pitched bursts when a bee disagrees with some decision inside a hive and wants to vote against doing it. And you can hear the waggle dance that Gilbert has recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert’s life is now filled with the beauty and intricacy of all these sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us from Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of \"The World According to Sound\" podcast. They’re partnering with the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco to help us reimagine California in the rich way blind people experience it every day. The project has additional support from California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When Aerial Gilbert went blind, beekeeping was something she figured she’d have to give up. But in the 30 years since, she's found ways to do things she used to — and that's meant relying a lot more on the power of sound.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1570998569,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1813},"headData":{"title":"Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy | KQED","description":"When Aerial Gilbert went blind, beekeeping was something she figured she’d have to give up. 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That indicates that everything in the hive is going smoothly. Gilbert tends to three beehives on her back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert went blind in 1988, beekeeping was one of the hobbies she figured she’d have to give up. But in the years since, she has found ways to do the things she used to before losing her sight. And that has meant relying a lot more on the power of sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual,” Gilbert said. “Now it’s the other senses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Bees Came in the Mail — With the Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is in her early 60s, but looks younger. She has a crop of black hair and an athletic frame. She used to be a nurse, and with the decisive yet gentle way she moves her hands, you sense she was good at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778063\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gilbert doesn’t hesitate to open the hives in her backyard and reach down into the humming mass of thousands of bees. Her fingers softly brush against their bodies, and they don’t seem to mind. She calls the bees her “girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was 10, a swarm of bees flew into her backyard looking for a new home. Hundreds of thousands of bees coalesced in a big buzzing ball on a tree. And they stayed, humming in a giant mass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I can hear how the bees are behaving — if they’re agitated, if there are other bees trying to get in the hive, or if it’s too crowded or too hot or too cold.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gilbert’s grandfather remembered the name of a local beekeeper and gave him a call. He said he’d be happy to have the bees. Gilbert watched the beekeeper walk calmly over to the giant blob of bees and scoop them up with his bare hands. He carried the swarm back to his car and left. Gilbert was mesmerized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was a junior in high school, her parents finally capitulated to her demand for her own hive. She ordered her first bees from Sears and Roebuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in the mail, along with the hive,” she said. “The postman was terrified. He got to the door and my mom was there, and he just shoved them in her face and said, ‘These your bees, lady?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a long time for Gilbert to get used to being around bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started beekeeping I was afraid of them,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would gear up in a white suit with big thick gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's so much visual information you get by looking at the honeycomb and the brood nest,” Gilbert said. “I didn't think I could be a good beekeeper without being able to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vision Lost in an Instant\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert lost her vision in an instant. After working the night shift at Marin General Hospital in 1988, she stopped at a pharmacy to buy some eye drops. They had been tampered with, filled with drain cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt sorry for myself. I was afraid of everything. I kind of closed myself down to ‘you might as well be dead,’ ” she said. “I didn't think I could do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a long process of healing and realizing she wouldn’t get her vision back, not even some of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ... woke up one day and started projecting out what my life would be like because going in the direction I was going wasn’t working,” Gilbert said. “I had always been very active. Now I was going to have a really boring life if I didn’t do something to change this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual. Now it’s the other senses.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There isn’t much information about the tampering. Gilbert settled with the company that made the eye drops and, as part of the deal, she isn’t supposed to go into detail about it with the media. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-04-mn-366-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> ran a short story about the tampering. It says, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The FBI and the federal Food and Drug Administration are probing an incident in which a nurse was blinded by eye drops contaminated with a caustic chemical. “Her left eye looks like it melted and her right eye looks like it’s covered with white glue,” said Richard Critchlow, an attorney for Gilbert Van Zee Miller, 34, of Fairfax in Marin County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert said her marriage ended when she lost her sight, and she couldn’t work as a nurse anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital gave her a job developing X-rays. She said that was the only place they were comfortable having a blind person work. Gilbert would sit in a small dark room all day, developing film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she was in despair. After six months it reached a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made the decision, no more feeling sorry for myself,” Gilbert said, “No more hiding, no more being afraid because I am allowing whoever this person was to still hurt me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then went to the state school for the blind in Albany, living there for six months and learning braille, how to orient herself and daily living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned a lot of basically the tricks of being blind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You Can Hear the Bees' Waggle Dance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, a friend had some hives she needed someone to look after. She asked Gilbert if she could. At first Gilbert hesitated, but she decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle. You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As soon as the hives arrived, Gilbert was relieved. She was ecstatic to have bees back in her life. And she realized that much of the information about the bees she had gathered before with her eyes, she could now gather with her ears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever Gilbert is out working on the hives, she is listening to them, keeping tabs on how they sound. She also bought some microphones to make recordings inside the hive. Those recordings give her an audio snapshot of the bees’ condition and more specific insight into what’s happening inside the hives. She can hear the waggle dance, which is the movement bees make to tell others where to find pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only can Gilbert hear the dance, she has started to notice variations in the sound depending on where the pollen is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle,” Gilbert said. “You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"bees","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Getting back to beekeeping was a triumph for Gilbert, but that’s just one part of her life: She fell in love again and remarried. She has worked at a nonprofit called Guide Dogs for the Blind, was an active volunteer and has traveled extensively. It’s been a full life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, Gilbert donated one of her kidneys to a friend. The friend recovered, but the surgery didn’t go well for Gilbert: She suffered a rare complication that caused her remaining kidney to start failing. Gilbert has managed it for years, but now, she needs someone to donate a kidney to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert has had to spend a lot of time at home because of her health, and has been kept from many of the things she loves, like rowing. She has managed to continue taking care of her hives, and after losing bees once in her life, she doesn't want to go without them ever again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Entire Democratic Process Unfolding in a Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is not the first blind person to take an interest in bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They came in the mail, along with the hive ... the postman was terrified.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Swiss entomologist Francois Huber started losing his sight at age 15. In the 18th century, he made major discoveries about the lives of bees. He proved that bees use their antennae to communicate and that queens mate in the air. And he described how male drone bees — worker bees responsible for mating with the queen — were killed at the end of each summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those who are blind aren’t the only one listening to bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Tom Seeley at Cornell University are recording them to better understand their behavior. Seeley wrote a book called “Honeybee Democracy” that’s about the decision-making process inside a hive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeley said you can listen to an entire democratic process unfolding inside a hive: You can hear the high-pitched buzz of worker bees telling the queen it’s time to fly to a new home. There are short, high-pitched bursts when a bee disagrees with some decision inside a hive and wants to vote against doing it. And you can hear the waggle dance that Gilbert has recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert’s life is now filled with the beauty and intricacy of all these sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us from Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of \"The World According to Sound\" podcast. They’re partnering with the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco to help us reimagine California in the rich way blind people experience it every day. The project has additional support from California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy","authors":["253"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_26776","news_2199","news_21855","news_18826","news_25962","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11778051","label":"news_72"},"news_11724637":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11724637","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11724637","score":null,"sort":[1549660673000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"study-pesticide-mixture-the-culprit-in-almond-grove-bee-die-offs","title":"Study: Pesticide Mixture the Culprit in Almond Grove Bee Die-Offs","publishDate":1549660673,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A new study has found that a mix of insecticides and fungicides could be the culprit in massive die-offs of honeybees at almond groves in California’s Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous research showed that the chemicals do not harm honeybees on their own. It's when these pesticides mingle in the air together — as they do in almond groves — that they become a lethal combination for bees, according to the study from Ohio State University and the Almond Board of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves\">February in California: Season for the Almond Bloom, Bees — and Bee Thieves\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Almonds.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Fungicides, often needed for crop protection, are routinely used during almond bloom, but in many cases growers were also adding insecticides to the mix,\" wrote Reed Johnson, a bee expert at Ohio State University and one of the study's authors, in an \u003ca href=\"https://news.osu.edu/culprit-found-for-honeybee-deaths-in-almond-groves/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">article for Ohio State News\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our research shows that some combinations are deadly to the bees, and the simplest thing is to just take the insecticide out of the equation during almond bloom,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the month of February, trucks full of honeybee hives — some 1.5 million colonies — arrive in California. The bees pollinate the almonds, a crop that’s valued at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves\">more than $5 billion a year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Record die-offs have been documented for years in California. Then, in 2014, things got worse as researchers and farmers observed entire honeybee colonies die. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and the study's other authors recommend that almond growers completely stop using the pesticides when almond trees are blooming in February. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honeybees are essential to almond production,” according to \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.almonds.com/content/new-ohio-state-university-research-confirms-importance-of-almond-board%E2%80%99s-honey-bee-best\">a statement by Bob Curtis\u003c/a>, pollination consultant and retired director of Agricultural Affairs for the Almond Board of California. “Every almond we eat exists because a honeybee pollinated an almond blossom so it’s in farmers best interest to keep them safe. Our livelihood depends on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lily Jamali and Marnette Federis contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Massive die-offs of honeybees have taken place in Central Valley almond groves. While insecticides and fungicides aren't harmful to bees on their own, an airborne mixture is lethal.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1549666438,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":333},"headData":{"title":"Study: Pesticide Mixture the Culprit in Almond Grove Bee Die-Offs | KQED","description":"Massive die-offs of honeybees have taken place in Central Valley almond groves. While insecticides and fungicides aren't harmful to bees on their own, an airborne mixture is lethal.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11724637 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11724637","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/08/study-pesticide-mixture-the-culprit-in-almond-grove-bee-die-offs/","disqusTitle":"Study: Pesticide Mixture the Culprit in Almond Grove Bee Die-Offs","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/02/HoneybeePesticideJamalitcram190207.mp3","audioTrackLength":73,"path":"/news/11724637/study-pesticide-mixture-the-culprit-in-almond-grove-bee-die-offs","audioDuration":90000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new study has found that a mix of insecticides and fungicides could be the culprit in massive die-offs of honeybees at almond groves in California’s Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous research showed that the chemicals do not harm honeybees on their own. It's when these pesticides mingle in the air together — as they do in almond groves — that they become a lethal combination for bees, according to the study from Ohio State University and the Almond Board of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves\">February in California: Season for the Almond Bloom, Bees — and Bee Thieves\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Almonds.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Fungicides, often needed for crop protection, are routinely used during almond bloom, but in many cases growers were also adding insecticides to the mix,\" wrote Reed Johnson, a bee expert at Ohio State University and one of the study's authors, in an \u003ca href=\"https://news.osu.edu/culprit-found-for-honeybee-deaths-in-almond-groves/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">article for Ohio State News\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our research shows that some combinations are deadly to the bees, and the simplest thing is to just take the insecticide out of the equation during almond bloom,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the month of February, trucks full of honeybee hives — some 1.5 million colonies — arrive in California. The bees pollinate the almonds, a crop that’s valued at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves\">more than $5 billion a year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Record die-offs have been documented for years in California. Then, in 2014, things got worse as researchers and farmers observed entire honeybee colonies die. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and the study's other authors recommend that almond growers completely stop using the pesticides when almond trees are blooming in February. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honeybees are essential to almond production,” according to \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.almonds.com/content/new-ohio-state-university-research-confirms-importance-of-almond-board%E2%80%99s-honey-bee-best\">a statement by Bob Curtis\u003c/a>, pollination consultant and retired director of Agricultural Affairs for the Almond Board of California. “Every almond we eat exists because a honeybee pollinated an almond blossom so it’s in farmers best interest to keep them safe. Our livelihood depends on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lily Jamali and Marnette Federis contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11724637/study-pesticide-mixture-the-culprit-in-almond-grove-bee-die-offs","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_4092","news_24945","news_2199","news_311","news_22225"],"featImg":"news_10701310","label":"news_72"},"news_11723123":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11723123","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11723123","score":null,"sort":[1549306089000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves","title":"February in California: Season for the Almond Bloom, Bees — and Bee Thieves","publishDate":1549306089,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t's February. Which means almond growers around the state — you've heard \u003ca href=\"http://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/2017%20Almanac%20Final%20-%20updated%207.5.18.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we grow almonds\u003c/a> here, right? — are getting ready for the most crucial few weeks in their entire season. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when bees \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/migratory-beekeeping-mind-boggling-math/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by the billions\u003c/a> swarm the more than 2,000 square miles of almond orchards in the Central Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees, trucked in from all over the country, buzz through the vast expanses of almond trees and their trillions of white and pink blossoms to pollinate the crop. It's an agricultural epic, regarded as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/migratory-beekeeping-mind-boggling-math/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest managed pollination event\u003c/a>\" on the planet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is also the season when bees — whole hives of them, sometimes dozens or hundreds of hives at a time — start to go missing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our recent habit of reading Facebook posts from the Butte County Sheriff's Office, we came across \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bcsonews/photos/pcb.1261222800694662/1261222350694707/?type=3&theater\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the following item\u003c/a>: A couple was arrested Friday in the community of Biggs, just outside Oroville, on charges of felony possession of stolen property. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property in question: several beehives that had vanished a couple of days earlier from a commercial beekeeping operation about 13 miles west of Biggs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte sheriff's \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bcsonews/photos/pcb.1261222800694662/1261222350694707/?type=3&theater\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> on the arrests said evidence at the scene of the theft suggested someone had taken the hives, put them on a small trailer and driven away. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the hives went missing, the Sheriff's Office said, Deputy Jay Freeman was alerted to a small utility trailer parked in the driveway of a home in Biggs. The trailer was suspicious, Freeman was told, because the residents were not known to have kept bees or beehives in the past. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies determined the hives matched those reported stolen and arrested the home's residents, Kenneth Dwayne Allen, 55, and Linda Milstead, 52. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbcsonews%2Fposts%2F1261222800694662&width=500\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the sheriff's statement, Allen and Milstead said they had intended to place the stolen hives in an orchard near Winters, in Yolo County, under a contract for almond pollination. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted on the possession of stolen property charge, they could face up to a year in county jail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged Biggs theft wasn't the only one reported to Butte County authorities last week. The California State Beekeepers Association \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiastatebeekeepers.com/1-28-2019-hive-theft-alert/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a second incident\u003c/a> west of the town of Richvale in which eight hives were stolen by thieves who may have used a flatbed truck equipped with a boom to carry the bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the CSBA alert says, the suspected thieves might have returned to the scene of the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the evening of Jan. 28, the owner of the hives was at the apiary yard getting ready to load bees for almond pollination,\" the CSBA said. \"An older model late 1980s Chevrolet or similar, 14-foot flatbed truck with a boom on it drove up to the yard after dark, at approximately 6 p.m. When the driver of the vehicle saw there were people in the yard they drove off and out of the area and never returned. It is believed based off the evidence and circumstances that this vehicle may have been involved in the prior theft and was returning to steal more beehives. It is also believed that this vehicle will continue to search for hives to steal as almond pollination is upon us in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ee thievery is not new. News outlets all over the country have reported on one of the biggest known heists, a Fresno case in which two men were busted in possession of as many as 2,500 beehives reportedly worth nearly $1 million. (See, for instance, in-depth reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/californias-almond-harvest-has-created-a-golden-opportunity-for-bee-thieves/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-26/how-to-steal-50-million-bees\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Businessweek\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is it happening? \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465076/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno\">Nearly $1 Million in Stolen Bees Recovered in Fresno\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465076/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBees1920-1180x777.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Almonds are big business. California's crop is valued at more than $5 billion a year, and bees that make that payoff possible are impressive earners in their own right. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond growers typically deploy two hives per acre of orchard, with the hives generally renting at between $180 and $200 each for a season that lasts four or five weeks at most. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 2 million or so hives hired out for almond pollination, that adds up to gross revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars earned in about a month. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen large-scale beekeeping operations reported on a California State Beekeepers Association \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiastatebeekeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-CSBA-Survey.xlsx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a> last year that they hired out total of 91,000 hives for almond pollination and grossed about $17.3 million — an average of more than $1 million each. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who is behind the thefts? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consensus among those in the industry is that experienced beekeepers are often responsible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beekeepers have the knowledge and equipment to go in and take the hives and the market to profit from them,\" one bee contractor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/109903/beekeepers-feel-the-sting-of-hives-stolen-in-california\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told NPR\u003c/a> in 2016. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparently the case in the big Fresno case. One of the two men arrested in the 2017 Fresno bee rustling, Pavel Tveretinov, is a beekeeper from Sacramento County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all the headlines it generated, that case is still months from going to trial. After numerous delays, Tveretinov and an alleged accomplice are now scheduled for a preliminary hearing in June — more than two years after their arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two cases in California signal the beginning of a busy time for almond growers, beekeepers and those who try to hijack hives for a quick profit. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1549329894,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":876},"headData":{"title":"February in California: Season for the Almond Bloom, Bees — and Bee Thieves | KQED","description":"Two cases in California signal the beginning of a busy time for almond growers, beekeepers and those who try to hijack hives for a quick profit. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11723123 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11723123","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/04/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves/","disqusTitle":"February in California: Season for the Almond Bloom, Bees — and Bee Thieves","path":"/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>t's February. Which means almond growers around the state — you've heard \u003ca href=\"http://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/2017%20Almanac%20Final%20-%20updated%207.5.18.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we grow almonds\u003c/a> here, right? — are getting ready for the most crucial few weeks in their entire season. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when bees \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/migratory-beekeeping-mind-boggling-math/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by the billions\u003c/a> swarm the more than 2,000 square miles of almond orchards in the Central Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees, trucked in from all over the country, buzz through the vast expanses of almond trees and their trillions of white and pink blossoms to pollinate the crop. It's an agricultural epic, regarded as the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/migratory-beekeeping-mind-boggling-math/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest managed pollination event\u003c/a>\" on the planet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is also the season when bees — whole hives of them, sometimes dozens or hundreds of hives at a time — start to go missing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our recent habit of reading Facebook posts from the Butte County Sheriff's Office, we came across \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bcsonews/photos/pcb.1261222800694662/1261222350694707/?type=3&theater\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the following item\u003c/a>: A couple was arrested Friday in the community of Biggs, just outside Oroville, on charges of felony possession of stolen property. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property in question: several beehives that had vanished a couple of days earlier from a commercial beekeeping operation about 13 miles west of Biggs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Butte sheriff's \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bcsonews/photos/pcb.1261222800694662/1261222350694707/?type=3&theater\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> on the arrests said evidence at the scene of the theft suggested someone had taken the hives, put them on a small trailer and driven away. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the hives went missing, the Sheriff's Office said, Deputy Jay Freeman was alerted to a small utility trailer parked in the driveway of a home in Biggs. The trailer was suspicious, Freeman was told, because the residents were not known to have kept bees or beehives in the past. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies determined the hives matched those reported stolen and arrested the home's residents, Kenneth Dwayne Allen, 55, and Linda Milstead, 52. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbcsonews%2Fposts%2F1261222800694662&width=500\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the sheriff's statement, Allen and Milstead said they had intended to place the stolen hives in an orchard near Winters, in Yolo County, under a contract for almond pollination. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted on the possession of stolen property charge, they could face up to a year in county jail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged Biggs theft wasn't the only one reported to Butte County authorities last week. The California State Beekeepers Association \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiastatebeekeepers.com/1-28-2019-hive-theft-alert/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a second incident\u003c/a> west of the town of Richvale in which eight hives were stolen by thieves who may have used a flatbed truck equipped with a boom to carry the bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the CSBA alert says, the suspected thieves might have returned to the scene of the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the evening of Jan. 28, the owner of the hives was at the apiary yard getting ready to load bees for almond pollination,\" the CSBA said. \"An older model late 1980s Chevrolet or similar, 14-foot flatbed truck with a boom on it drove up to the yard after dark, at approximately 6 p.m. When the driver of the vehicle saw there were people in the yard they drove off and out of the area and never returned. It is believed based off the evidence and circumstances that this vehicle may have been involved in the prior theft and was returning to steal more beehives. It is also believed that this vehicle will continue to search for hives to steal as almond pollination is upon us in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ee thievery is not new. News outlets all over the country have reported on one of the biggest known heists, a Fresno case in which two men were busted in possession of as many as 2,500 beehives reportedly worth nearly $1 million. (See, for instance, in-depth reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/californias-almond-harvest-has-created-a-golden-opportunity-for-bee-thieves/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reveal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-26/how-to-steal-50-million-bees\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Businessweek\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is it happening? \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465076/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno\">Nearly $1 Million in Stolen Bees Recovered in Fresno\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11465076/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBees1920-1180x777.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Almonds are big business. California's crop is valued at more than $5 billion a year, and bees that make that payoff possible are impressive earners in their own right. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond growers typically deploy two hives per acre of orchard, with the hives generally renting at between $180 and $200 each for a season that lasts four or five weeks at most. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 2 million or so hives hired out for almond pollination, that adds up to gross revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars earned in about a month. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen large-scale beekeeping operations reported on a California State Beekeepers Association \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiastatebeekeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-CSBA-Survey.xlsx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a> last year that they hired out total of 91,000 hives for almond pollination and grossed about $17.3 million — an average of more than $1 million each. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who is behind the thefts? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consensus among those in the industry is that experienced beekeepers are often responsible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beekeepers have the knowledge and equipment to go in and take the hives and the market to profit from them,\" one bee contractor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/109903/beekeepers-feel-the-sting-of-hives-stolen-in-california\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told NPR\u003c/a> in 2016. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparently the case in the big Fresno case. One of the two men arrested in the 2017 Fresno bee rustling, Pavel Tveretinov, is a beekeeper from Sacramento County. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all the headlines it generated, that case is still months from going to trial. After numerous delays, Tveretinov and an alleged accomplice are now scheduled for a preliminary hearing in June — more than two years after their arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11723123/february-in-california-season-for-the-almond-bloom-bees-and-bee-thieves","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_24114","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_24945","news_2199","news_22754","news_311","news_19542"],"featImg":"news_11723245","label":"news_72"},"news_11651094":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11651094","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11651094","score":null,"sort":[1519852684000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dispelling-the-myth-of-how-bees-socialize","title":"Bees Aren't as Hive-Minded as We Think","publishDate":1519852684,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When we think of bees, most of us probably picture lots of buzzing insects flying around together, collecting pollen and making honey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S. Hollis Woodard, a bee researcher and assistant professor in UC Riverside's Entomology Department, says this picture isn't the full one. She says most bees don't live in groups. Most are actually solitary creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think there are about 20,000 species of bees, and the overwhelming majority of them are solitary. Most of the bees you would probably see showing up in your garden are solitary,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard's interest in bees began as a way to learn more about social evolution. She wanted to study bees that live in big social groups. But now she finds herself studying a lot of solitary species, too. That's because her office at UC Riverside is close to the desert. And most bees in the desert live alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only a few groups that live in big social systems, like bumblebees and honeybees. Woodard says there’s a spectrum of how social bees are. Some bees are completely solitary and socialize only when they are mating. Other bees might live in small little social groups, or socialize occasionally, but she says most bees keep to themselves, like the carpenter bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out in Riverside, we get all these strange desert bees, like the carpenter bees. They bore into wood, the underside of buildings. Out in the desert, they nest in agave stems. And they are these big, black-bodied bees. A lot of people see them and think they are bumblebees, but they are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We think of bees as pollinator workhorses. But Woodard says not all bees pollinate crops that humans like and use. She says while all bees visit flowering plants and many of them gather pollen, some bees actually gather \u003cem>oil\u003c/em> from flowers. Regardless, they all contribute to promoting diversity in the ecosystem at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Woodard loves studying bees, her research comes with a cost. Every time she's stung by a honeybee, she has an allergic reaction and must carry an EpiPen with her everywhere she goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this wasn't always the case, though. She used to get stung thousands of times, no problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a trend in immunology that if you get exposed to something a lot, and then you don’t get exposed at all, you tend to develop an allergy when you get stung again, when it comes to bee stings,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got stung [by honeybees] many, many times in graduate school, and then I finished my Ph.D. and then wasn’t around honeybees and didn’t get stung for a while. And then I had one actually fly in a car while I was driving and sting me in the face -- and I had a reaction where I had to go to the hospital,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard's favorite bee? The bumblebee, hands-down. Aside from studying how they are social, she says there are many reasons to love the good old bumblebee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tend to forage when it’s cold and rainy out; they live in places like the Arctic. And then there’s just something aesthetically pleasing about them. They’re just chunky and very fuzzy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Male bumblebees don’t sting, so Woodard says it’s a good trick for a bee biologist to find one and hold him. But unless you know what a male bumblebee looks like, don’t try this at home or in the garden.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Most of the 20,000 species of bees don't live in groups. 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The overwhelming majority of them are actually solitary creatures.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11651094 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11651094","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/28/dispelling-the-myth-of-how-bees-socialize/","disqusTitle":"Bees Aren't as Hive-Minded as We Think","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/02/DesertBeesWoodardStryker2way180228.mp3","WpOldSlug":"dispelling-the-myth-of-how-bees-socialize__trashed","path":"/news/11651094/dispelling-the-myth-of-how-bees-socialize","audioDuration":179000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When we think of bees, most of us probably picture lots of buzzing insects flying around together, collecting pollen and making honey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S. Hollis Woodard, a bee researcher and assistant professor in UC Riverside's Entomology Department, says this picture isn't the full one. She says most bees don't live in groups. Most are actually solitary creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think there are about 20,000 species of bees, and the overwhelming majority of them are solitary. Most of the bees you would probably see showing up in your garden are solitary,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard's interest in bees began as a way to learn more about social evolution. She wanted to study bees that live in big social groups. But now she finds herself studying a lot of solitary species, too. That's because her office at UC Riverside is close to the desert. And most bees in the desert live alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only a few groups that live in big social systems, like bumblebees and honeybees. Woodard says there’s a spectrum of how social bees are. Some bees are completely solitary and socialize only when they are mating. Other bees might live in small little social groups, or socialize occasionally, but she says most bees keep to themselves, like the carpenter bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out in Riverside, we get all these strange desert bees, like the carpenter bees. They bore into wood, the underside of buildings. Out in the desert, they nest in agave stems. And they are these big, black-bodied bees. A lot of people see them and think they are bumblebees, but they are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We think of bees as pollinator workhorses. But Woodard says not all bees pollinate crops that humans like and use. She says while all bees visit flowering plants and many of them gather pollen, some bees actually gather \u003cem>oil\u003c/em> from flowers. Regardless, they all contribute to promoting diversity in the ecosystem at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Woodard loves studying bees, her research comes with a cost. Every time she's stung by a honeybee, she has an allergic reaction and must carry an EpiPen with her everywhere she goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says this wasn't always the case, though. She used to get stung thousands of times, no problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a trend in immunology that if you get exposed to something a lot, and then you don’t get exposed at all, you tend to develop an allergy when you get stung again, when it comes to bee stings,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got stung [by honeybees] many, many times in graduate school, and then I finished my Ph.D. and then wasn’t around honeybees and didn’t get stung for a while. And then I had one actually fly in a car while I was driving and sting me in the face -- and I had a reaction where I had to go to the hospital,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard's favorite bee? The bumblebee, hands-down. Aside from studying how they are social, she says there are many reasons to love the good old bumblebee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tend to forage when it’s cold and rainy out; they live in places like the Arctic. And then there’s just something aesthetically pleasing about them. They’re just chunky and very fuzzy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Male bumblebees don’t sting, so Woodard says it’s a good trick for a bee biologist to find one and hold him. But unless you know what a male bumblebee looks like, don’t try this at home or in the garden.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11651094/dispelling-the-myth-of-how-bees-socialize","authors":["250"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2199","news_17286","news_22617"],"featImg":"news_11651099","label":"news_72"},"science_1838829":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1838829","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1838829","score":null,"sort":[1499967430000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"no-offense-american-bees-but-your-sperm-isnt-cutting-it","title":"No Offense, American Bees, But Your Sperm Isn't Cutting It","publishDate":1499967430,"format":"standard","headTitle":"No Offense, American Bees, But Your Sperm Isn’t Cutting It | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story is for mature bees only.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seducing a honeybee drone—one of the males in a colony whose only job is to mate with the queen—is not too difficult. They don’t have stingers, so you just pick one up. Apply a little pressure to the abdomen and the drone gets randy, blood rushing to his endophallus, bringing him to climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re really accommodating,” says Susan Cobey, a honeybee breeder on Whidbey Island, Wash. “One ejaculate is about 1 microliter, and it takes 10 microliters to artificially inseminate a queen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Y7TXOzoCrWtiybZGX436TyHD5Ty0BWPR”]Since 2008, Cobey has done her share of bee abdomen rubbing as part of a research team from Washington State University traveling through Europe and Asia. They’ve collected sperm from native honeybees in Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Georgia – countries where honeybees have favorable genetic traits, like resistance to the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">varroa mite\u003c/a>. The deadly parasite has been cited as a major factor in bee deaths, along with genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure, according to a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2013/05/02/usda-and-epa-release-new-report-honey-bee-health\">report from the USDA and EPA\u003c/a> in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varroa mites are an invasive parasite from Asia that sucks hemolymph (bee blood) from adult and larval honeybees, weakening their immune systems and transmitting \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">deadly pathogens\u003c/a>, like bent wing virus. If left untreated, a varroa infestation can kill a colony in one year. First detected on U.S. soil in 1987, varroa has spread quickly, infesting upwards of 50 percent of American hives. Last year, 33 percent of U.S. honeybee hives died. That’s troubling for the plight of honeybees and U.S. agriculture, which relies on pollinators to produce\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/bees.pdf\"> one-third of the food we eat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The buzz on American bees: too much inbreeding\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the WSU research team, the root cause of the U.S. honeybees’ vulnerability to varroa is a dwindling gene pool that has left them short on genetic traits that help honeybees resist varroa elsewhere in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honeybees aren’t native to America,” Cobey says. “We brought them here. But the U.S. closed its borders to live honeybee imports in 1922, and our honeybee population has been interbreeding ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WSU has monitored the genetic diversity of honeybee queens in Washington and California since 1994, showing a steady decline. Dr. Brandon Hopkins, the team’s expert in freezing and thawing bee sperm, likens honeybee breeding to a poker game played with an incomplete deck of cards. “There’s no way to get a four-of-a-kind if there aren’t four aces in the deck,” Hopkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1838831\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1838831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1920x1252.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-960x626.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-375x245.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-520x339.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Hopkins, a cryopreservation specialist, works in Washington State University’s fruit tree orchard in Pullman, Wash. As a doctoral student at WSU, Hopkins perfected a system of freezing and thawing bee semen for use in artificial insemination. \u003ccite>(Shelly Hanks/Courtesy of Washington State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The imported semen has restacked the deck. WSU’s crossbred honeybees already test positive at a higher level of genetic diversity than the first queens tested in 1994. “This doesn’t mean they are superior in performance to the other bees,” Hopkins says. “It means we have a better chance of finding rare and unique traits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that honeybee breeders selected for bees that produced more honey, grew more populous hives, and were gentler to handle. Now, they want honeybees that can resist varroa. Without it, beekeepers must rely on costly “miticide” treatments to control varroa\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, studies suggest the mites are developing resistance to pesticides and the chemicals may be harming honeybees, compounding the problem of widespread bee deaths known as Colony Collapse Disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost 40 percent of my colonies to varroa last fall,” says Matthew Shakespear, whose company, Olson’s Honeybees, raises 16,000 hives in central Washington. “I’m not taking any more chances. We’ve already done five treatments, compared with the two treatments we applied this time last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A problem that blooms in almond orchards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pollination services like Olson’s Honeybees are the cornerstone of a $15 billion segment of U.S. agriculture. A hefty share of that is the almond industry, whose trees are completely reliant on honeybees for pollination. It’s also the industry most susceptible to fallout from the varroa epidemic in bees: California’s almond groves serve as an incubator for the growth and spread of varroa mites across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are 800,000 acres of almonds in California,” says Patrick Heitkam, owner of Heitkam’s Honey Bees in Orland, Calif. “It takes two hives to pollinate one acre, so that’s a need for 1.6 million hives. There are only 500,000 hives in the state, so the rest are trucked in from around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond trees bloom in January, a time of the year when most honeybee varieties are dormant in their hives. But an Italian species of honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera linguistica\u003c/em>, which evolved in the warm Mediterranean climate, is active when the first almond blossom pops in late-January, making them the most popular variety in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is, Italian honeybees are extremely susceptible to varroa mites, because their hives grow so big, so fast and so early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Italian honeybees rear their babies and varroa mites nearly one-for-one,” says Dr. Robert Danka, a research entomologist at the USDA’s Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Baton Rouge, La.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Lessons from mighty Russian stingers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the WSU team, Danka has also looked to the Old World for an answer to varroa mites. Between 1994 and 2000, he traveled to the Russian far east, where a local honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera\u003c/em>, has developed resistance to varroa. They are descended from European honeybees brought by Russian settlers traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway at the turn of the 20th century. The journey inadvertently transplanted the honeybees into the native range of varroa mites in east Asia, where they evolved resistance to the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Russian bees groom themselves, biting and crushing the mites. They also have a prevalent genetic trait called \u003ca href=\"http://www.beeculture.com/breeding-mite-biting-bees-to-control-varroa/\">varroa sensitive hygiene\u003c/a> (VSH), aborting larval honeybees infested with mites and removing them from the hive before the parasite can spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danka brought back 360 queens, the basis for what is now a robust Russian honeybee population in the United States. While their prowess as mite biters continues, Russian honeybees haven’t proven up to task as commercial pollinators. The queens are used to long Russian winters, so they are slow at building up their hives, meaning only a small number are ready to fly in the almond groves come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Survival of the fittest bees\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Danka says the Russian honeybee offers proof that a European subspecies can develop varroa mite resistance through natural selection. That evolutionary process is interrupted in commercial beehives, because of the “prophylactic use of miticides,” Danka says. “We’re maintaining varroa-susceptible bees through chemistry. If we took away all those pesticide treatments – and to be clear, I’m not advocating for this – the results would be horrific. But in a rather short period of time, only varroa-resistant bees would be left.” And those bees could be the basis of a new population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Shakespear, the commercial honeybee keeper in Yakima, Wash., would rather not spend money treating his hives for varroa mites. Starting last year, he diversified his business to include hives of Carniolan honeybees, \u003cem>Apis mellifera carnica\u003c/em>, a subspecies native to Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queens he bought were the great-great-great granddaughters of a honeybee drone that Susan Cobey found in the mountains of Slovenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe these new genetics can deal with the varroa mites naturally, rather than having to rely on chemicals,” Shakespear says. “It’s time to start widening our gene pool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ryantbell.com\">\u003cem>Ryan Bell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist based in Washington State. Find him on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ryanbellwriter\">\u003cem>@ryanbellwriter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thefern.org/\">\u003cem>Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an independent, nonprofit news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=No+Offense%2C+American+Bees%2C+But+Your+Sperm+Isn%27t+Cutting+It&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.S. bees are in trouble, and one of the major threats is a deadly parasite called varroa mite. So researchers are importing sperm from European bees resistant to mites to toughen up America's stock.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704928546,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1413},"headData":{"title":"No Offense, American Bees, But Your Sperm Isn't Cutting It | KQED","description":"U.S. bees are in trouble, and one of the major threats is a deadly parasite called varroa mite. So researchers are importing sperm from European bees resistant to mites to toughen up America's stock.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Ryan Bell\u003c/br>NPR","nprImageAgency":"Megan Asche/Courtesy of Washington State University","nprStoryId":"536884827","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=536884827&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/13/536884827/no-offense-american-bees-but-your-sperm-isnt-cutting-it?ft=nprml&f=536884827","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:00:23 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:00:23 -0400","path":"/science/1838829/no-offense-american-bees-but-your-sperm-isnt-cutting-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story is for mature bees only.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seducing a honeybee drone—one of the males in a colony whose only job is to mate with the queen—is not too difficult. They don’t have stingers, so you just pick one up. Apply a little pressure to the abdomen and the drone gets randy, blood rushing to his endophallus, bringing him to climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re really accommodating,” says Susan Cobey, a honeybee breeder on Whidbey Island, Wash. “One ejaculate is about 1 microliter, and it takes 10 microliters to artificially inseminate a queen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Since 2008, Cobey has done her share of bee abdomen rubbing as part of a research team from Washington State University traveling through Europe and Asia. They’ve collected sperm from native honeybees in Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Georgia – countries where honeybees have favorable genetic traits, like resistance to the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">varroa mite\u003c/a>. The deadly parasite has been cited as a major factor in bee deaths, along with genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure, according to a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2013/05/02/usda-and-epa-release-new-report-honey-bee-health\">report from the USDA and EPA\u003c/a> in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varroa mites are an invasive parasite from Asia that sucks hemolymph (bee blood) from adult and larval honeybees, weakening their immune systems and transmitting \u003ca href=\"http://articles.extension.org/pages/71172/honey-bee-viruses-the-deadly-varroa-mite-associates\">deadly pathogens\u003c/a>, like bent wing virus. If left untreated, a varroa infestation can kill a colony in one year. First detected on U.S. soil in 1987, varroa has spread quickly, infesting upwards of 50 percent of American hives. Last year, 33 percent of U.S. honeybee hives died. That’s troubling for the plight of honeybees and U.S. agriculture, which relies on pollinators to produce\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/bees.pdf\"> one-third of the food we eat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The buzz on American bees: too much inbreeding\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the WSU research team, the root cause of the U.S. honeybees’ vulnerability to varroa is a dwindling gene pool that has left them short on genetic traits that help honeybees resist varroa elsewhere in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honeybees aren’t native to America,” Cobey says. “We brought them here. But the U.S. closed its borders to live honeybee imports in 1922, and our honeybee population has been interbreeding ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WSU has monitored the genetic diversity of honeybee queens in Washington and California since 1994, showing a steady decline. Dr. Brandon Hopkins, the team’s expert in freezing and thawing bee sperm, likens honeybee breeding to a poker game played with an incomplete deck of cards. “There’s no way to get a four-of-a-kind if there aren’t four aces in the deck,” Hopkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1838831\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1838831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1920x1252.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-960x626.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-375x245.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490-520x339.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/02_bees_hopkins_custom-5e2379eb06d3debd2668aabc5a5def3a1fac5490.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Hopkins, a cryopreservation specialist, works in Washington State University’s fruit tree orchard in Pullman, Wash. As a doctoral student at WSU, Hopkins perfected a system of freezing and thawing bee semen for use in artificial insemination. \u003ccite>(Shelly Hanks/Courtesy of Washington State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The imported semen has restacked the deck. WSU’s crossbred honeybees already test positive at a higher level of genetic diversity than the first queens tested in 1994. “This doesn’t mean they are superior in performance to the other bees,” Hopkins says. “It means we have a better chance of finding rare and unique traits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to be that honeybee breeders selected for bees that produced more honey, grew more populous hives, and were gentler to handle. Now, they want honeybees that can resist varroa. Without it, beekeepers must rely on costly “miticide” treatments to control varroa\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, studies suggest the mites are developing resistance to pesticides and the chemicals may be harming honeybees, compounding the problem of widespread bee deaths known as Colony Collapse Disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost 40 percent of my colonies to varroa last fall,” says Matthew Shakespear, whose company, Olson’s Honeybees, raises 16,000 hives in central Washington. “I’m not taking any more chances. We’ve already done five treatments, compared with the two treatments we applied this time last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A problem that blooms in almond orchards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pollination services like Olson’s Honeybees are the cornerstone of a $15 billion segment of U.S. agriculture. A hefty share of that is the almond industry, whose trees are completely reliant on honeybees for pollination. It’s also the industry most susceptible to fallout from the varroa epidemic in bees: California’s almond groves serve as an incubator for the growth and spread of varroa mites across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are 800,000 acres of almonds in California,” says Patrick Heitkam, owner of Heitkam’s Honey Bees in Orland, Calif. “It takes two hives to pollinate one acre, so that’s a need for 1.6 million hives. There are only 500,000 hives in the state, so the rest are trucked in from around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond trees bloom in January, a time of the year when most honeybee varieties are dormant in their hives. But an Italian species of honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera linguistica\u003c/em>, which evolved in the warm Mediterranean climate, is active when the first almond blossom pops in late-January, making them the most popular variety in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is, Italian honeybees are extremely susceptible to varroa mites, because their hives grow so big, so fast and so early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Italian honeybees rear their babies and varroa mites nearly one-for-one,” says Dr. Robert Danka, a research entomologist at the USDA’s Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Baton Rouge, La.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Lessons from mighty Russian stingers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like the WSU team, Danka has also looked to the Old World for an answer to varroa mites. Between 1994 and 2000, he traveled to the Russian far east, where a local honeybee, \u003cem>Apis mellifera\u003c/em>, has developed resistance to varroa. They are descended from European honeybees brought by Russian settlers traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway at the turn of the 20th century. The journey inadvertently transplanted the honeybees into the native range of varroa mites in east Asia, where they evolved resistance to the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Russian bees groom themselves, biting and crushing the mites. They also have a prevalent genetic trait called \u003ca href=\"http://www.beeculture.com/breeding-mite-biting-bees-to-control-varroa/\">varroa sensitive hygiene\u003c/a> (VSH), aborting larval honeybees infested with mites and removing them from the hive before the parasite can spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danka brought back 360 queens, the basis for what is now a robust Russian honeybee population in the United States. While their prowess as mite biters continues, Russian honeybees haven’t proven up to task as commercial pollinators. The queens are used to long Russian winters, so they are slow at building up their hives, meaning only a small number are ready to fly in the almond groves come January.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Survival of the fittest bees\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Danka says the Russian honeybee offers proof that a European subspecies can develop varroa mite resistance through natural selection. That evolutionary process is interrupted in commercial beehives, because of the “prophylactic use of miticides,” Danka says. “We’re maintaining varroa-susceptible bees through chemistry. If we took away all those pesticide treatments – and to be clear, I’m not advocating for this – the results would be horrific. But in a rather short period of time, only varroa-resistant bees would be left.” And those bees could be the basis of a new population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Shakespear, the commercial honeybee keeper in Yakima, Wash., would rather not spend money treating his hives for varroa mites. Starting last year, he diversified his business to include hives of Carniolan honeybees, \u003cem>Apis mellifera carnica\u003c/em>, a subspecies native to Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The queens he bought were the great-great-great granddaughters of a honeybee drone that Susan Cobey found in the mountains of Slovenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe these new genetics can deal with the varroa mites naturally, rather than having to rely on chemicals,” Shakespear says. “It’s time to start widening our gene pool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ryantbell.com\">\u003cem>Ryan Bell\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a journalist based in Washington State. Find him on Twitter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ryanbellwriter\">\u003cem>@ryanbellwriter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thefern.org/\">\u003cem>Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an independent, nonprofit news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=No+Offense%2C+American+Bees%2C+But+Your+Sperm+Isn%27t+Cutting+It&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1838829/no-offense-american-bees-but-your-sperm-isnt-cutting-it","authors":["byline_science_1838829"],"categories":["science_2874","science_31","science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_3370","science_507"],"featImg":"science_1838830","label":"source_science_1838829"},"news_11535589":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11535589","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11535589","score":null,"sort":[1498598503000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"beekeepers-feel-the-sting-of-californias-great-hive-heist","title":"Beekeepers Feel the Sting of California's Great Hive Heist","publishDate":1498598503,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Seventy-one million. That's the number of bees Max Nikolaychuk tends in the rolling hills east of Fresno. Each is worth a fraction of a cent, but together they make up a large part of his livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikolaychuk makes most of his money during almond pollination season, renting out the bees to California's almond orchards. This year, a thief stole four stacks of his hives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew about the bees, because he went through every bee colony I had and only took the good ones,\" he says. \"But, you know, the bee yards -- I don't have no security there, no fences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of security means his bees have been stolen more than once. And it's a type of theft that's been playing out all over the state's orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"hV3N9Qn9qT3aLUbyBzBWwuvz9X7zVajG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally billions of bees are needed to pollinate California's almond crop. Not enough bees live in California year-round to do that. So they are trucked in from across the country, from places like Colorado, Arizona and Montana. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/19/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">around $1 million worth of stolen bees were found in a field\u003c/a> in Fresno County. Sgt. Arley Terrence with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department says it was a \"beehive chop shop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534128664/534597247\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were so many different beehives and bee boxes owned by so many different victims,\" Terrence says. \"All of these stolen bee boxes that we recovered — none of them were stolen in Fresno County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees were stolen from across California, but they belong to beekeepers from around the country. A few thousand bee boxes disappear every year, but this bee heist was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the biggest bee theft investigation that we've had,\" Terrence says. Most of the time, he says, beehive thieves turn out to be \"someone within the bee community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/2502746-bee-rustling-photos-14-_custom-f12e2e50d988cbdee8609cbfc6188c5e566c0168-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop-shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was the case in the giant heist earlier this year. The alleged thief, Pavel Tveretinov, was a beekeeper from Sacramento who used the stolen bees for pollination and then stashed them on a plot of land in Fresno County. He was arrested and could face around 10 years of jail time. And authorities say he didn't act alone. His alleged accomplice, Vitaliy Yeroshenko, has been charged and a warrant is out for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Godlin with the California State Beekeepers Association says the problem of hive theft gets worse every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There used to be kind of a code of honor that you didn't mess with another man's bees,\" Godlin says. But the alleged perpetrators of this giant hive theft broke that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He went way, way over the line,\" Godlin says. \"It's just, you know, heartbreaking when you go out and your bees are gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11467018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11467018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-800x808.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov.\" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-375x379.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-520x525.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov. \u003ccite>(Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Godlin has had hives stolen in the past. He and many other beekeepers make their income not just from renting out hives but also from selling the honey the bees produce. So when bees are stolen, beekeepers lose out on both sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says it takes time to develop a new hive by introducing a new queen and developing honey. \"Bees, you know, we have been hit by everything from vandals to bears to thieves. But the vandalism and thieving is the worst. You know, the one that hurts the most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says his organization will pay a reward of up to $10,000 for tips leading to the prosecution of bee thieves. But that only relieves some of the sting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 Valley Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kvpr.org/\">Valley Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Beekeepers+Feel+The+Sting+Of+California%27s+Great+Hive+Heist&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This year, authorities uncovered a 'beehive chop shop': nearly $1 million in stolen hives in a field in Fresno County -- and thefts are rising.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1498601573,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":655},"headData":{"title":"Beekeepers Feel the Sting of California's Great Hive Heist | KQED","description":"This year, authorities uncovered a 'beehive chop shop': nearly $1 million in stolen hives in a field in Fresno County -- and thefts are rising.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11535589 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11535589","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/27/beekeepers-feel-the-sting-of-californias-great-hive-heist/","disqusTitle":"Beekeepers Feel the Sting of California's Great Hive Heist","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Daniel Milchev","nprByline":"Ezra David Romero","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"534128664","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=534128664&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/27/534128664/beekeepers-feel-the-sting-of-california-s-giant-beehive-heist?ft=nprml&f=534128664","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:41:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:54:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:55:12 -0400","path":"/news/11535589/beekeepers-feel-the-sting-of-californias-great-hive-heist","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Seventy-one million. That's the number of bees Max Nikolaychuk tends in the rolling hills east of Fresno. Each is worth a fraction of a cent, but together they make up a large part of his livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikolaychuk makes most of his money during almond pollination season, renting out the bees to California's almond orchards. This year, a thief stole four stacks of his hives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew about the bees, because he went through every bee colony I had and only took the good ones,\" he says. \"But, you know, the bee yards -- I don't have no security there, no fences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of security means his bees have been stolen more than once. And it's a type of theft that's been playing out all over the state's orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally billions of bees are needed to pollinate California's almond crop. Not enough bees live in California year-round to do that. So they are trucked in from across the country, from places like Colorado, Arizona and Montana. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/19/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">around $1 million worth of stolen bees were found in a field\u003c/a> in Fresno County. Sgt. Arley Terrence with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department says it was a \"beehive chop shop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534128664/534597247\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were so many different beehives and bee boxes owned by so many different victims,\" Terrence says. \"All of these stolen bee boxes that we recovered — none of them were stolen in Fresno County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees were stolen from across California, but they belong to beekeepers from around the country. A few thousand bee boxes disappear every year, but this bee heist was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the biggest bee theft investigation that we've had,\" Terrence says. Most of the time, he says, beehive thieves turn out to be \"someone within the bee community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/2502746-bee-rustling-photos-14-_custom-f12e2e50d988cbdee8609cbfc6188c5e566c0168-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop-shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was the case in the giant heist earlier this year. The alleged thief, Pavel Tveretinov, was a beekeeper from Sacramento who used the stolen bees for pollination and then stashed them on a plot of land in Fresno County. He was arrested and could face around 10 years of jail time. And authorities say he didn't act alone. His alleged accomplice, Vitaliy Yeroshenko, has been charged and a warrant is out for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Godlin with the California State Beekeepers Association says the problem of hive theft gets worse every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There used to be kind of a code of honor that you didn't mess with another man's bees,\" Godlin says. But the alleged perpetrators of this giant hive theft broke that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He went way, way over the line,\" Godlin says. \"It's just, you know, heartbreaking when you go out and your bees are gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11467018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11467018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-800x808.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov.\" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-375x379.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-520x525.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov. \u003ccite>(Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Godlin has had hives stolen in the past. He and many other beekeepers make their income not just from renting out hives but also from selling the honey the bees produce. So when bees are stolen, beekeepers lose out on both sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says it takes time to develop a new hive by introducing a new queen and developing honey. \"Bees, you know, we have been hit by everything from vandals to bears to thieves. But the vandalism and thieving is the worst. You know, the one that hurts the most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says his organization will pay a reward of up to $10,000 for tips leading to the prosecution of bee thieves. But that only relieves some of the sting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 Valley Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kvpr.org/\">Valley Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Beekeepers+Feel+The+Sting+Of+California%27s+Great+Hive+Heist&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11535589/beekeepers-feel-the-sting-of-californias-great-hive-heist","authors":["byline_news_11535589"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2199","news_333","news_37","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11535590","label":"source_news_11535589"},"news_11479164":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11479164","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11479164","score":null,"sort":[1495837157000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-great-california-bee-caper","title":"The Great California Bee Caper","publishDate":1495837157,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Did you hear the one about the Great California Bee Caper? (Bonus points if you can guess Suspect #1's common name.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought some agricultural crime, bees and Winnie the Pooh would be a good Friday change of pace from \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/25/circuit-court-ruling-keeps-trumps-travel-ban-on-hold/\">executive orders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/26/530103144/republican-gianforte-wins-montana-house-race-amid-assault-charge\">violent politicians\u003c/a> and \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/25/ag-becerra-wants-trump-administration-to-make-crude-carrying-bomb-trains-safer/\">bomb trains\u003c/a>.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/19/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno/\">Check out this fascinating story\u003c/a> about what Fresno authorities are calling the \"biggest beehive theft they’ve ever seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Did you hear the one about the Great California Bee Caper? (Bonus points if you can guess Suspect #1's common name.)","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1495837157,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":72},"headData":{"title":"The Great California Bee Caper | KQED","description":"Did you hear the one about the Great California Bee Caper? (Bonus points if you can guess Suspect #1's common name.)","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11479164 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11479164","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/26/the-great-california-bee-caper/","disqusTitle":"The Great California Bee Caper","path":"/news/11479164/the-great-california-bee-caper","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Did you hear the one about the Great California Bee Caper? (Bonus points if you can guess Suspect #1's common name.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought some agricultural crime, bees and Winnie the Pooh would be a good Friday change of pace from \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/25/circuit-court-ruling-keeps-trumps-travel-ban-on-hold/\">executive orders\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/26/530103144/republican-gianforte-wins-montana-house-race-amid-assault-charge\">violent politicians\u003c/a> and \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/25/ag-becerra-wants-trump-administration-to-make-crude-carrying-bomb-trains-safer/\">bomb trains\u003c/a>.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/19/nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno/\">Check out this fascinating story\u003c/a> about what Fresno authorities are calling the \"biggest beehive theft they’ve ever seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11479164/the-great-california-bee-caper","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_2199","news_20150","news_20949"],"featImg":"news_11479165","label":"news_18515"},"news_11465076":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11465076","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11465076","score":null,"sort":[1495226660000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nearly-1-million-in-stolen-bees-recovered-in-fresno","title":"Nearly $1 Million in Stolen Bees Recovered in Fresno","publishDate":1495226660,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Fresno authorities say they've uncovered the biggest beehive theft they've ever seen. They recovered nearly a $1 million worth of bees belonging to a dozen victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Arley Terrence of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnosheriff.org/units/specialty-units/ag-task-force.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno County Sheriff’s Department Agricultural Crimes Task Force\u003c/a> said detectives got a tip about some stolen hives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they showed up at an orchard on the outskirts of town, they found 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov in a beekeeper suit tending to a motley assortment of beehives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was like a chop shop of stolen bees,\" Terrence said Thursday. \"There were just lots and lots of different bee boxes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11466903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11466903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-800x703.jpg\" alt=\"Investigators discovered hives with a variety of distinctive markings, indicating they belonged to different owners.\" width=\"800\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-800x703.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-160x141.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-1020x896.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-1180x1037.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-960x844.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-240x211.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-375x329.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-520x457.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Investigators discovered hives with a variety of distinctive markings, indicating they belonged to different owners. \u003ccite>(Detective Andres Solis/Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In total, detectives discovered 2,500 stolen hives, which Terrence said belong to 12 different victims. Authorities believe all the bees were stolen in California over the past three years. Many belong to local beekeepers, but some hail from as far away as Montana and Missouri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3XSsB28NIwUnhY3CmG3jjtJHDcG0L3tT\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common for out-of-state beekeepers to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519500033/bees-travel-cross-country-for-the-california-almond-harvest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">truck in bees to pollinate California nut crops\u003c/a>, which are a tidy source of revenue for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond farming alone contributed \u003ca href=\"http://aic.ucdavis.edu/almonds/Economic%20Impacts%20of%20California%20Almond%20Industry_Full%20Report_FinalPDF_v2.pdf\">over $7 billion\u003c/a> to the California economy in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11465086\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11465086\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In total, investigators found about 2,500 stolen hives. \u003ccite>(Detective Andres Solis/Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Terrence said Tveretinov knows the beekeeping trade. \"He used that to his advantage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe Tveretinov worked at night, snatching truckloads of bees out of orchards they were hired to pollinate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said he supplemented his own hives with those he stole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He would move through the state using other people's bees to contract with farmers, and then collected those fees,\" Terrence said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11467018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11467018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-800x808.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov.\" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-375x379.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-520x525.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov. \u003ccite>(Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Detectives had help from what Terrence calls a close-knit Russian-Ukrainian beekeeping community in Northern California. Tveretinov is Russian-Ukranian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're all familiar with each other,\" Terrence said of the beekeepers, \"and they had suspected that he was stealing bees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tveretinov was arrested on April 28 on suspicion of possessing stolen property and released on $10,000 bail. He is expected to be charged with possession of stolen property and grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bees are big money, and authorities say they've uncovered the biggest beehive theft they've ever seen. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1495562786,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":405},"headData":{"title":"Nearly $1 Million in Stolen Bees Recovered in Fresno | KQED","description":"Bees are big money, and authorities say they've uncovered the biggest beehive theft they've ever seen. 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Arley Terrence of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnosheriff.org/units/specialty-units/ag-task-force.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno County Sheriff’s Department Agricultural Crimes Task Force\u003c/a> said detectives got a tip about some stolen hives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they showed up at an orchard on the outskirts of town, they found 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov in a beekeeper suit tending to a motley assortment of beehives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was like a chop shop of stolen bees,\" Terrence said Thursday. \"There were just lots and lots of different bee boxes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11466903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11466903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-800x703.jpg\" alt=\"Investigators discovered hives with a variety of distinctive markings, indicating they belonged to different owners.\" width=\"800\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-800x703.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-160x141.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-1020x896.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-1180x1037.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-960x844.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-240x211.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-375x329.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/StolenBeehivesYellow-520x457.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Investigators discovered hives with a variety of distinctive markings, indicating they belonged to different owners. \u003ccite>(Detective Andres Solis/Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In total, detectives discovered 2,500 stolen hives, which Terrence said belong to 12 different victims. Authorities believe all the bees were stolen in California over the past three years. Many belong to local beekeepers, but some hail from as far away as Montana and Missouri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common for out-of-state beekeepers to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519500033/bees-travel-cross-country-for-the-california-almond-harvest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">truck in bees to pollinate California nut crops\u003c/a>, which are a tidy source of revenue for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almond farming alone contributed \u003ca href=\"http://aic.ucdavis.edu/almonds/Economic%20Impacts%20of%20California%20Almond%20Industry_Full%20Report_FinalPDF_v2.pdf\">over $7 billion\u003c/a> to the California economy in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11465086\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11465086\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bees6.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In total, investigators found about 2,500 stolen hives. \u003ccite>(Detective Andres Solis/Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Terrence said Tveretinov knows the beekeeping trade. \"He used that to his advantage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators believe Tveretinov worked at night, snatching truckloads of bees out of orchards they were hired to pollinate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said he supplemented his own hives with those he stole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He would move through the state using other people's bees to contract with farmers, and then collected those fees,\" Terrence said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11467018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11467018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-800x808.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov.\" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-375x379.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-520x525.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov. \u003ccite>(Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Detectives had help from what Terrence calls a close-knit Russian-Ukrainian beekeeping community in Northern California. 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