USA Today (May 26, 2017) informs us:
> The death of a colony doesn't necessarily mean a loss of bees, explains vanEngelsdorp, a project director at the Bee Informed Partnership. A beekeeper can salvage a dead colony, but doing so comes at labor and productivity costs.
[pretty sure he didn't say that, exactly]
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meanwhile, from the past:
> I have no doubt of the fact that several causes have operated to produce the mortality that has destroyed the bees during the last six years, and that bee cholera, so called, is not one but several distinct agents of destruction, which, in the absence of proper investigation, have been considered one. Unsuitable food has no doubt produced dysentery and other diseases ; fungoid parasites and intestinal animalcules may have assisted, but until some systematic scientific investigations are had we will likely be in the dark. Our Government, State and Nation still consider bee keeping too small a business to extend to it any assistance, and our naturalists would greatly prefer to speculate on the habits and instincts of some extinct fossil bug or worm to dealing with the practical realities of so useful an insect as the honey bee.
D. L. Adair. Hawesville, Kentucky, June 1, 1874.
THE NATIONAL BEE JOURNAL.
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