Old data may provide new insights on honey bee populations
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 15:11
in Biology & Nature
There has been a lack of useful, long-term datasets on the size of honey bee populations, making it difficult to quantify actual changes in honey bee abundance, and to determine what causes population declines. But researchers have studied long-term datasets from the USDA and from US states to see how they can be used together.