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The Business of Bees
Every year beekeepers from every corner of the United States descend on California to pollinate almonds. To create a single almond, a blossom needs as many as a dozen bee visits. The demand is so high it takes almost every bee hive in the country to do the job. Almonds have a window of about two weeks for pollination to occur.