• Mario Ocampo prepares to put a frames of honeycomb into a spinner at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Mario Ocampo prepares to put a frames of honeycomb into a spinner at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Jordan Erickson prepares to put a frames of honeycomb into a spinner at Gene Brandi Apiaries in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Jordan Erickson prepares to put a frames of honeycomb into a spinner at Gene Brandi Apiaries in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Mario Ocampo prepares to put a frames of honeycomb into a spinner at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Mario Ocampo prepares to put a frames of honeycomb into a spinner at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • A mudflap at a honey farm in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    A mudflap at a honey farm in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Frames of honeycomb hold honey before it is harvested at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Frames of honeycomb hold honey before it is harvested at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Frames of honeycomb hold honey before it is harvested at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Frames of honeycomb hold honey before it is harvested at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Honey bees fly into a hive. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Honey bees fly into a hive. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Samples of honey at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Samples of honey at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Mario Ocampo, right, and Jordan Erickson remove frames of honeycomb from an extraction machine at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Mario Ocampo, right, and Jordan Erickson remove frames of honeycomb from an extraction machine at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Honey bees fly around a hive at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Honey bees fly around a hive at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
  • Honey bees fly into a hive at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
    Honey bees fly into a hive at Gene Brandi Apiaries on September 4, 2014 in Los Banos, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP

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In pictures: California drought leaves honey bees in a sticky situation

Liz Claus

September 08, 2014

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As California’s severe drought pushes through its third year, honey bees are producing less honey due to a lack of wildflowers and fewer farm crops that honey bees extract nectar from to produce honey.

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