Photos: Though it’s months from Christmas, citrus trees are all wrapped up - LA Daily News

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Many of the citrus groves along the 126 freeway near the Ventura/Los Angeles county line have taken on the look of a giant Christo-wrapped art installation.

Unlike the Christo art projects, the wrapping of the trees goes beyond art and is all about nature.

• Citrus groves wrapped up to protect them from being cross-pollinated by bees in Piru, CA Thursday, May 20, 2021. Growers cover the flowering seedless citrus to keep bees from cross pollinating from citrus which has seeds and possibly lowering the value of their seedless crops. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Citrus groves wrapped up to protect them from being cross-pollinated by bees in Piru, CA Thursday, May 20, 2021. Growers cover the flowering seedless citrus to keep bees from cross pollinating from citrus which has seeds and possibly lowering the value of their seedless crops. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Citrus groves wrapped up to protect them from being cross-pollinated by bees in Piru, CA Thursday, May 20, 2021. Growers cover the flowering seedless citrus to keep bees from cross pollinating from citrus which has seeds and possibly lowering the value of their seedless crops. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Citrus groves wrapped up to protect them from being cross-pollinated by bees in Piru, CA Thursday, May 20, 2021. Growers cover the flowering seedless citrus to keep bees from cross pollinating from citrus which has seeds and possibly lowering the value of their seedless crops. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Citrus groves wrapped up to protect them from being cross-pollinated by bees in Piru, CA Thursday, May 20, 2021. Growers cover the flowering seedless citrus to keep bees from cross pollinating from citrus which has seeds and possibly lowering the value of their seedless crops. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The nets are placed over the groves to keep bees from cross-pollinating the trees.

Seedless-mandarin growers do not want cross-pollination to occur on their trees because if pollen is transferred from blossoms on Valencia orange trees or lemon trees to the blossoms on their seedless-mandarin trees, the latter will develop seeds and lower the value of the seedless crops.

Most citrus is self-pollinating and does not require the work of the bees, so they must buzz on to other unwrapped groves.

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