Radio 4 Tues 25th March Beekeeping in US

[Norton Caff]

Tomorrow at 11am, "On the trail of the American Honey Bee."

Dr Adam Hart meets the migratory bee keepers of America as they travel to the annual Almond bloom in California, the largest single pollination event on Earth...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rg226

 

[DanBee]

The industrial nature of migratory beekeeping in the US, means many are forced to split and even kill off some their own colonies in order to create younger, more productive ones, in a process referred to as "nuking the hive".

Something lost in translation here...?