> What in your opinion is causing a loss of 90%?

Lack of understanding, mistakes and bad beekeeping, most of the time.

Bad luck, illness on the part of the beekeeper, unaccessable locations,
unusual viruses, spraying, a disasterous honey season leading up to the
winter, bad feed, malnutrition, badly applied or badly timed treatments
or manipulations, and all the rest of the excuses, the rest of the time.

Sorry.  I calls 'em the way I sees 'em.  And don't think that I never
had high losses in my 30+ years.  I can be as wrong as anybody.
Sometimes wronger.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com

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