[Badboo]

This sort of thing drives hobbyist beekeepers up the wall. The forced monoculture upon bees kills them. Almonds provide very little sustenance to bees. Commercial operators have to feed them sugar water to keep them alive. Any honey is treated as a by product as the money is in the fees for pollination. Then the low quality honey is dumped onto the market depressing prices for everyone. Look for this abuse to be outlawed. See:

https://theecologist.org/2015/may/02/bee-collapse-result-their-enslavement-industrial-monocultures

My wife pulled 100 lbs. of honey from her 6 hives this year. All wildflower fed. She sells It for $1.00 an ounce and will sell out easily to locals and friends who appreciate he good stuff. If you buy cheap honey you are buying crap honey. Yes you can see and taste the difference. Same as a fresh tomato just off the vine and one that was “ripened” by ethylene sitting for weeks in a tractor trailer.

[know.your.why]

I cant post whats going thru my male mind so I’ll just say “fascinating”.

[EEGator]

I have no clue if it’s true, but I’ve heard local honey from wild flowers helps with allergies.

[GranTorino]

As a beekeeper I feel this is a bad idea.
Bad in a lot of different ways.

[Redwood71]

“Dollops of pheromones have been sprayed into flowering almond orchards near Robinvale, in north-west Victoria, with the aim of creating excitement among bees, thus creating more nuts.”

This may be a poor way of putting it, but it is basically correct.

rwood