US winter colony losses near 40%

According to a preliminary report from Bee Informed (https://beeinformed.org/results/2018-2019/), US winter colony losses are around 40%.. Put another way, on average for every five colonies you'll lose two over the winter... Here's the grit:

"Similar to previous years, backyard beekeepers lost more colonies over the winter (39.8%) compared to sideline (36.5%) and commercial (37.5%) beekeepers. Backyard, sideline, and commercial beekeepers are defined as those managing 50 or fewer colonies, 51 to 500 colonies, and 501 or more colonies, respectively."

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