Honeybees in the Central Valley of California

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California's Central Valley is having the world's largest pollination event. Honeybees love almonds and almonds love honeybees. The two businesses are very codependent. There's not close to enough bees in California to pollinate all of the almond trees there. But now beekeepers basically ship hives into the valley on semi-trucks.

Humanity can’t survive without bees, which is why bees are big business for thieves. Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah heads to the capital of sting operations — California’s Central Valley — to find out who’s beehind these thefts and why they're happening.

This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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