Mysterious mortality perplexing apiarists

> The confusion about the honeybee mortality rate is giving beekeepers quite the sting. Bill Termeer, a lifelong beekeeper, owns 2,900 colonies in the Sexsmith area. Last winter he lost 40% of them due to over-wintering mortality. He cannot pinpoint the cause. "A certain percent of the hives you couldn't tell what the cause was, there was no honey and no bees in them," Termeer said. "Some yards in my farm had 70% - 100% losses. In those yards we found hives full of honey, but no bees. I wouldn't want to have that every year, I'd be out of this business. Can't do it, can't recover them every year."

Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune, Thursday, June 30, 2011 
	
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3189530

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