The Buzzword is 'Almonds'

The wait is over.

It's almond pollination season again in California. We spotted a lone almond tree blooming in Benicia on Christmas Day. And on New Year's Day, even more blooms.

No honey bees, though.

If you want to photograph bees on almonds, you have to go where the bees are.

Bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis, got their buzz on today, as they foraged on several almond trees on the grounds of the Department of Entomology and Nematology.

Meanwhile, the buzzword throughout California is "almonds."   Some 1.6 million bee colonies are here to pollinate the state's 900,000-plus acres of almonds.