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WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United...

WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United...

WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United...

Beekeepers are turning to GPS tracking devices, surveillance cameras and other anti-theft technology to protect their precious colonies.

For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United States truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers who need the insects to pollinate the state’s most valuable crop. But as almond trees start to bloom, blanketing entire valleys in white and pink flowers, so begin beehive thefts that have…

WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United...

WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United...

As almond trees start to bloom in California, so do beehive thefts that have become so prevalent that beekeepers are now turning to GPS tracking devices,

In the past few weeks, 1,036 beehives worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were reported stolen from orchards statewide in California, authorities said.

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