Low winter mortality in Dutch bee colonies for the third year in a row
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
Again last winter, Dutch beekeepers lost few bee colonies: about 10%. This means that the winter mortality, which is measured in early April, has been around 10% for three years in a row (13%, 9% and 10% in 2013, 2014 and 2015, respectively). That is the result of a telephone survey of beekeepers carried out on 2 April by the Dutch Beekeepers Association (NBV) and bee researchers from Wageningen UR.