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Bee Colonies & Apple Orchards
Apple Orchards
The apple tree is one of the most cultivated plants
in the entire world with more than 7,500 known types.
The wild ancestral apple is indigenous to the
mountains that border China and Kazakhstan which is
also part of the native range of the western honey bee.
Around the same time colonists imported bees to the
“new world”, they also brought apple trees. Because honey
bees collect nectar and pollen from many
flowering plants they are very effective pollinators.
Apple flowers cannot self-pollinate and therefore require
cross pollination, this is where the bees come in. Honey
bees are the most important pollinators of apples in
North America. In 2006,over 500,000 honey bee hives
were needed to pollinate apple orchards.
Wisconsin & Bees
Honey bees, like other common agricultural plants and
animals in the United States, are not native to
North America but were imported from Europe in
the early 17th century. Because of the ease by which
honey bees are transported, they have become the
primary insect pollinator used in agriculture. Honey bees
are responsible for one third of food people eat. In these
days of agribusiness and corporate farms, our diet and
the U.S. economic livelihood are dependent upon
the pollination services provided by honey bees.
Apple Orchard Density
(total apple orchard land/total agricultural land)
Percentage in thousandths
0.000 - 0.345%
0.346 - 1.289%
1.290 - 6.008%
6.009 - 34.11%
Bee Colonies
1 Dot = 60 Colonies
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Cartographers: Shane Loesch, Jeff Mork, Stefan Stults, Joe MartellSources: U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Census
www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications

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Because of the ease by which honey bees are transported, they have become the primary insect pollinator used in agriculture. Honey bees are responsible for one third of food people eat. In these days of agribusiness and corporate farms, our diet and the U.S. economic livelihood are dependent upon the pollination services provided by honey bees. Apple Orchard Density (total apple orchard land/total agricultural land) Percentage in thousandths 0.000 - 0.345% 0.346 - 1.289% 1.290 - 6.008% 6.009 - 34.11% Bee Colonies 1 Dot = 60 Colonies ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! Low Medium High 1992 1978 2007 Cartographers: Shane Loesch, Jeff Mork, Stefan Stults, Joe MartellSources: U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Census www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications