Bee Colonies by County
Bee colonies kept on farms. A colony is a hive with a queen in it, so this counts beekeeping at its working scale rather than the honey it happened to yield that year. Read it as where beekeepers are based rather than where the bees are: colonies are counted against the operation's address, and the large migratory outfits that pollinate the California almond crop truck their hives across the country and back every spring. Alameda County, which is mostly Oakland, reports more colonies than any agricultural county in America for that reason.
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Highest counties
| County | Bee Colonies |
|---|---|
| Alameda County, California | 291,102 |
| Kern County, California | 152,227 |
| Tulare County, California | 92,867 |
| Fresno County, California | 89,015 |
| Merced County, California | 82,832 |
| Madera County, California | 78,082 |
| Anderson County, Texas | 77,129 |
| Glenn County, California | 67,471 |
| San Diego County, California | 44,294 |
| Clinch County, Georgia | 40,837 |
| Riverside County, California | 38,758 |
| Alachua County, Florida | 38,503 |