You can smell the bees before you see them.
Mixed between honey and pollen, the scent is overwhelmingly sweet as it wafts through the door in a shed placed on a rural piece of property in Amherstburg, Ont.
When the door is opened that’s when you hear them — thousands of bumblebees angry with the light and noise.
The bees are waiting to be purchased by local greenhouses that will use them for pollination.
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“Pollination is how much fruit you’re going to get, so for a farmer, they’re not going to play around with their pollination,” said Meshal Mustafa, who helps run the family