Return to sender: early season honey bees in Oregon

Honey bees return to their hive in a plum orchard on a farm near Elkton in rural western Oregon on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Honey bees are used extensively for commercial pollination of fruit and vegetable crops. The scale of these pollination services is commonly measured in the billions of dollars, credited with adding about 9% to the value of crops across the world.