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Planting mixes of flowers around farm fields helps keep bees healthy

  • Written by: Hamutahl Cohen, Extension Agent, University of Florida
imageBees feeding in monoculture fields of single crops such as sunflowers crowd together and pass parasites to one another at high rates.Lauren Ponisio/University of Oregon, CC BY-ND

It’s springtime in California, and bees are emerging to feast on flowering fields – acres upon acres of cultivated almonds, oranges and other fruits and nuts...

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