ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月17日 22時13分

From @nytmag | Every February, white petals blanket first the almond trees, then the floor of the central valley, an 18,000-square-mile expanse of California. The blooms represent the beginning of the valley’s growing season each year: Almond trees are first to bud, flower and fruit. At the base of the trunks sit splintered boxes stacked 2 boxes high on a wooden pallet that fits 4 stacks. Inside the boxes are bees, dancing in circles and figure-eights and sometimes just waggling. With almond season comes bee season. Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn't be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated. But their business is in peril. Here, @ilonaaszwarc photographed Randy Verhoek, former president of the American Honey Producers Association, in an almond orchard near Madera, California. This past season, Randy dropped 9,000 hives on 4,000 or so acres. He’ll gross $1.4 million from pollinating almonds, but when @nytmag’s @jaimeroselowe asked him about profits, he said, “Well, that’s the problem with beekeepers; we don’t crunch the numbers. We just put everything back in the business and hope we’ll be here next year.” Visit the link in our profile to read the story. ? ? ?

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