At first, it was all about the US. There, Fiona Edwards Murphy says the drive to ship millions of beehives to California to help pollinate massive almond orchards every spring has turned beekeeping into a large industry: “We’ve seen, since the 1990s when this almond pollination started, a consolidation up from your average beekeeper having a few hundred beehives and seeing these operations with thousands, tens of thousands of beehives.” Yet since co-founding the connected beehive monitoring start-up ApisProtect four years ago, Edwards Murphy has found that the technology scaled up for commercial American beekeepers could also be scaled down…

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