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Beekeeper Helio Medina displays a beehive frame outfitted with a GPS locator in Woodland CA.
(Rich Pedroncelli \/ Associated Press)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

By Daisy Nguyen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the country truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers, who need the insects to pollinate the state\u2019s most valuable crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as almond trees start to bloom, blanketing entire valleys in white and pink flowers,\u00a0so begin the beehive thefts<\/a>\u00a0that have become so prevalent that beekeepers are now turning to GPS tracking devices, surveillance cameras and other anti-theft technology to protect their precious colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hive thefts have been reported elsewhere in the country, most recently three hives containing about 60,000 bees taken from a grocery chain\u2019s garden in central Pennsylvania. They happen at a larger scale and uniquely in California this time of year because bees are most in demand during the largest pollination event in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last few weeks, 1,036 beehives worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were reported stolen from orchards statewide, authorities said. The largest heist involved 384 beehives taken from a field in Mendocino County, prompting the state beekeepers association to offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to their recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to articulate how it feels to care for your hives all year only to have them stolen from you,\u201d Claire Tauzer wrote on Facebook to spread the word about the reward. A day later, an anonymous tipster led authorities to recover most of the boxes and a forklift stolen from Tauzer\u2019s family business some 55 miles away, at a rural property in Yolo County. One suspect was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators also found frames, of the kind used to hold honeycombs, belonging to Helio Medina, another beekeeper who lost 282 hives a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medina said the theft devastated his apiary, so this year he placed GPS trackers inside the boxes. He also strapped cable locks around them and installed cameras nearby. As the almond bloom approached and the hives became most valuable, he drove around patrolling the orchards in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to do what we can to protect ourselves. Nobody can help us,\u201d Medina said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thefts usually happen at night, when no one is in the orchard and the bees are back in their hives. The rustler is usually a beekeeper<\/a> or someone familiar with the transportation of bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore often than not, they steal to make money and leave the bees to die,\u201d said Rowdy Jay Freeman, a Butte County sheriff\u2019s detective who has been keeping track of hive thefts since 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tightening supply of bees and soaring pollination fees \u2014 jumping from less than $50 to rent a hive two decades ago to as much as $230 per hive this year \u2014 are likely motivating some beekeepers to go rogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demand for bees has steadily risen over the last 20 years as the popularity of almonds turned California into the world\u2019s biggest producer of the healthy, crunchy nut<\/a>. Accordingly, the amount of land used to grow almonds has more than doubled to an estimated 1.3 million acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beekeepers have been keeping up with that growth by providing an ever-increasing proportion of the nation\u2019s available stock of hives. This year, a survey of commercial beekeepers estimated that it would take 90% of honeybee colonies in the U.S. to pollinate all the almond orchards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat that means is that beekeepers are coming from as far as New York and Florida, and to get them to come all that way, pollinator fees have to rise,\u201d said Brittney Goodrich, an agricultural economist at UC Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But bee populations are notoriously unstable because of a host of problems, including disease, loss of habitat and insecticides<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drought that gripped Western states last summer also weakened colonies. The lack of rain ravaged wildflowers that provide the nectar that bees turn into honey. Beekeepers had to artificially supplement their diet with sugar solutions and pollen substitutes \u2014 and incur more costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For beekeepers, the loss of a hive means the loss of income from honey production and future pollination, not to mention the expense of managing the hive throughout the year. They say they hardly break even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor every $210 paid to rent a beehive, we put close to that much into it the whole year feeding the bees because of drought. We do all the health checks, which is labor-intensive, and we pay our workers full benefits,\u201d Tauzer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denise Qualls, a pollination broker who connects beekeepers with growers, suspects the thefts are happening because some beekeepers can\u2019t provide the strong colonies they promised and therefore turn to stealing. The thieving beekeepers sell their loot and collect the money from the grower, \u201cand then they leave the hives,\u201d Qualls said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe grower is just as responsible when they accept them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help her clients track their investments, Qualls merged her business with tech startup Bee Hero to equip hive boxes with a GPS-enabled sensor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freeman, who got into beekeeping after investigating his first hive theft, said he advises beekeepers to use security cameras and put their names and phone numbers on the boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said some beekeepers have tried tagging their boxes with SmartWater CSI, a forensic tool used to help police trace recover stolen property. The clear liquid is visible only under UV light, even through layers of paint, so police can ascertain the rightful owner even when thieves try to disguise boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To raise the crime\u2019s severity, Freeman worked with prosecutors in 2016 to charge a man accused of stealing 64 beehives with theft of livestock. Under California law, theft of property worth $950 or less is classified as a misdemeanor. But the theft of any agricultural product worth at least $250 is considered a felony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStealing one or 10 or 100 hives would result in the same charge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years\u2019 probation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The California State Beekeepers\u2019 Assn. urges beekeepers to communicate regularly with growers about where their hives are placed, and encourages growers to hire reputable beekeepers who can show proof of ownership of their hives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The almond industry, meanwhile, is trying to reduce its dependence on bees by growing \u201cself fertile\u201d almond varieties that require fewer bees for pollination and by investing in research and other initiatives aimed at improving their health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Almond Board of California also joined a coalition of agricultural, environmental and government groups to create habitat for wild bees, butterflies and other pollinators on privately owned working lands such as cattle ranches and orchards. The state government is funding $15 million toward the effort, calling it an investment in \u201cclimate smart agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to story on Los Angeles Times web site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to CDFA’s Pollinator Protection page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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