My copy of the Hive and the Honey Bee (1992 page 829) lists winter losses
before mites as about 15% for the US as a whole but for us lucky ones in
the far north would easily be 30%.

Control Varroa and the numbers are about the same as pre Varroa.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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