FREDERICK, MD - NOVEMBER 6: Male drones tend to honeycomb cells in a bee colony run by Adam Finkelstein and Kelly Rausch who are are raising super hardy queen bees to defeat colony collapse disorder and other ailments facing the honeybee in Frederick American honeybee colonies have bounced back after a bad year, the annual beekeeping survey finds.Beekeepers only lost 22.2% of their colonies this past winter, from Oct.
1 to March 31, which is lower than the average of 28.6%, according to the Bee Informed Partnership’s annual survey of thousands of beekeepers.
It was the second smallest winter loss in the 14 years of surveying done by several different U.S. universities.Last winter’s loss was considerably less than the previous winter of.