Disappearing Honeybees, A Bird Composer and Documenting the Imperial Valley
‘Buzzkill’ Examines the Crisis of Disappearing Honeybees and Other Pollinators
The Central Valley’s almond industry is hosting what some call the Super Bowl of beekeeping. Commercial beekeepers from across the country take an estimated 90% of the nation’s honeybees and load them into trucks in time to make a narrow pollination window for those Central Valley almond trees. But it’s gotten harder and harder to keep those bees alive. All over the world, bees, butterflies, moths and flies are disappearing. Sasha Khokha sat down with Teresa Cotsirilos, host of “Buzzkill,” a new podcast that investigates this pollinator crisis.
Composers Lulu and Wendy Reid make music in collaboration with the natural world. Although they don’t speak the same language, composing and performing music together is how they connect. For our series on California Composers, reporter Julia Haney went to one of the duo’s performances in Berkeley.
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