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jpak

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Thu Jun 20, 2019, 09:28 PM Jun 2019

Survey finds biggest U.S. honeybee winter die-off yet

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/06/19/survey-sees-biggest-us-honeybee-winter-die-off-yet/

WASHINGTON — Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed.

A man holds a frame removed from a hive box covered with honey bees in Lansing, Mich., in 2018. According to the results of an annual survey of beekeepers released on Wednesday, winter hit America’s honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet. Dale G. Young/Detroit News via Associated Press

The annual nationwide survey by the Bee Informed Partnership found 37.7% of honeybee colonies died this past winter, nearly 9 percentage points higher than the average winter loss.

The survey of nearly 4,700 beekeepers managing more than 300,000 colonies goes back 13 years and is conducted by bee experts at the University of Maryland, Auburn University and several other colleges.

Beekeepers had been seeing fewer winter colony losses in recent years until now, said Maryland’s Dennis vanEngelsdorp, president of the bee partnership and co-author of Wednesday’s survey.

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Survey finds biggest U.S. honeybee winter die-off yet (Original Post) jpak Jun 2019 OP
Did not all those Freezing Rains in December Wellstone ruled Jun 2019 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

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1. Did not all those Freezing Rains in December
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 10:57 PM
Jun 2019

as well as the extreme warm Temps most likely caused Hives to become active and then a day or two later extreme Cold hit the same area.

Once the Boxes are starved of Oxygen do to being Ice encased,could this be the reason.

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