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The Beekeeper When Rafael Reynaga came to check on his bee colonies in a Fresno almond orchard, he found a carpet full of dead bees on the ground. Reynaga picked up a hive and found two inches of bees at the bottom. He says most were dead, but a few were still moving. Dead bees reek, Reynaga says, like a dead rat. He’s been working with bees since the 1980s but he says he’d never experienced a bee kill firsthand until this February. He’d lent two hundred hives to his brother, fellow beekeeper Raul Reynaga. The latter had a pollination contract with an almond grower in Reedley on the east side of Fresno. He suspects his honeybees died from pesticide exposure. “The bees act in a specific way when they are poisoned,” adds Reynaga. “They fly in circles close to the ground.” To Reynaga these bee deaths point to a pesticide spray to blooming crops. But he says his hives went in before the almond bloom. The closest blooming crop were nectarines. Reynaga filed a “Report of Loss” with the
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