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Bees for avocados

Beehives in an avocado orchard on a sunny day.

Beehives in an avocado orchard providing honey bees for pollination. Avocado trees need lots of bees to pollinate all the flowers. The bees don’t always do a good job of pollination, so fruit crops can be poor.

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