Source: Robert Arnason, Producer.com, July 25, 2019
An average loss of 24 percent is lower than the previous year but still higher than what beekeepers would like to see
About 25 percent of Canadian bee colonies did not survive this winter.
That’s average for the last decade or so, but higher than the deal losses of around 15 percent.
“The national winter loss, including non-viable bee colonies, was 25.7 percent, with provincial losses ranging from 19.8 to 54.1 percent,” the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists (CAPA) said in its July 22 report on honeybees.
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