Bees in the news, excerpts from Washington Post article:

Karen Rennich, [Bee Informed] partnership’s executive director, said the nonprofit has been collecting loss data from beekeepers and conducting a longer survey of management data since 2010. “We’re trying to drill down and see which management practices are correlated with lower mortality,” she said.

Longtime beekeepers such as David Hackenberg say the bee life span has fallen to just 25 to 30 days. It used to be more than twice that. He trucks his bees 80,000 to 100,000 miles each year, moving them up to 22 times.

Jim Doan’s bees winter in Florida and spend the rest of the year in New York.  “This past year, [bee] mortality was around 70 percent, which is about average for where we’ve been,” he said. "It’s not where I’d like to see it, but it’s better than where it’s been.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/05/last-winter-saw-highest-honeybee-colony-losses-record/?utm_term=.fc683ddf599e

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