[Pollinator] Fwd: Survey of Bee Losses in the U.S. During Winter of 2012/2013 was 31.1 per...

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31.1 percent from all causes, according to the annual survey conducted by  
the Bee Informed Partnership and the Apiary Inspectors of America and funded 
by  the USDA - The survey notes that 

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Subject: Survey of Bee Losses in the U.S. During Winter of 2012/2013 was  
31.1 percent from all causes, according to the annual survey conducted by the 
 Bee Informed Partnership and the Apiary Inspectors of America and funded 
by  the USDA - The survey notes that ...
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Survey of Bee  Losses in the U.S. During Winter of 2012/2013 was "... 31.1 
percent from all  causes ..." according to the annual survey conducted by 
the Bee Informed  Partnership and the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and 
funded by the USDA  - The survey notes that this "... represents an increase 
in loss of 9.2 points  or 42 percent over the previous 2011/2012 winter's 
total losses that were  estimated at 21.9 percent ... One difference noted 
this winter was that there  were more colonies that dwindled away, rather than 
suffering from the onset of  Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), where colony 
populations are lost suddenly ...  More than two-thirds of responding 
beekeepers (70 percent) reported losses  greater than 14 percent, the level of loss 
that beekeepers stated as allowing  them to remain economically viable as a 
business ..."  
Document  Title: The title of  the May 6, 2013 USDA ARS Fact Sheet is 
"Survey of Bee Losses During Winter of  2012/2013" 
Organization:  USDA ARS Press  Office  
Bee Informed  Partnership  
Source:  May 6, 2013  USDA ARS Fact Sheet  
May 2, 2013  Bee Informed Partnership "Winter Loss Survey 2012 – 2013: 
Preliminary Results"   
Web site:  The May 6,  2013 USDA ARS Fact Sheet is posted at 
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/beelosses/index.htm   
The abstract  for the survey is available at 
http://beeinformed.org/2013/05/winter-loss-survey-2012-2013  
* A complete analysis of the survey data "... will be published later this  
year ..."  
Information  about the Bee Informed Partnership is available at 
_http://beeinformed.org_ (http://beeinformed.org/)    
USDA ARS has  posted information about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) at 
http://www.ars.usda.gov/CCD   
Contact:  Questions may  be directed to the following individuals: 
* Dennis vanEngelsdorp who is a  research scientist with the Department of 
Entomology at the University of  Maryland in College Park and Director of 
the Bee Informed Partnership at _301 405 3942_ (tel:301%20405%203942) ; fax: 
_301 314  9290_ (tel:301%20314%209290) ; e-mail: 
_Dennis.vanEngelsdorp at gmail.com_ (mailto:Dennis.vanEngelsdorp at gmail.com)  
* Jeff  Pettis who is the Research Leader of the USDA ARS Bee Research 
Laboratory in  Beltsville, Maryland at _301 504  7299_ (tel:301%20504%207299) ; 
fax: _301 504 8736_ (tel:301%20504%208736) ; e-mail: 
_Jeffery.Pettis at ARS.USDA.gov_ (mailto:Jeffery.Pettis at ARS.USDA.gov)    
Summary:  The text of  the May 6, 2013 USDA ARS Fact Sheet follows:  
Total losses  of managed honey bee colonies nationwide were 31.1 percent 
from all causes for  the 2012/2013 winter, according to the annual survey 
conducted by the Bee  Informed Partnership and the Apiary Inspectors of America 
(AIA - http://www.apiaryinspectors.org/ ) and funded  by the U.S. Department 
of Agriculture (USDA).  
* Bee losses  for the 2011/2012 winter were 22 percent. This past winter’s 
losses are  slightly higher than the previous 6-year average loss of 30.5 
percent.   
* The survey,  which covered from October 2012 through April 2013, was 
conducted by  University of Maryland research scientist Dennis vanEngelsdorp, 
who is also  director of the Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with 
Jeff Pettis,  research leader of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) 
Bee Research  Laboratory 
(http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12-45-33-00  ) in Beltsville, Md., and others. More information about the 
Bee Informed  Partnership is available online at _http://beeinformed.org_ 
(http://beeinformed.org/)  .   
* One  difference noted this winter was that there were more colonies that 
dwindled  away, rather than suffering from the onset of Colony Collapse 
Disorder (CCD),  where colony populations are lost suddenly.  
* One major  difference in this survey is that beekeepers who later took 
honey bees to  California to pollinate almonds reported higher losses than 
beekeepers who did  not take their bees to pollinate almonds. Nearly 20 percent 
of the beekeepers  who pollinated almonds lost 50 percent or more of their 
colonies, according to  vanEngelsdorp.  
More than  two-thirds of responding beekeepers (70 percent) reported losses 
greater than  14 percent, the level of loss that beekeepers stated as 
allowing them to  remain economically viable as a business.  
* Beekeepers  did not report CCD as a major cause of colony loss this past 
winter, which  follows the previous year’s trend.  
* More than  6,000 U.S. beekeepers responded to the survey. Those 
beekeepers manage about  600,000 colonies, which represent nearly 22 percent of the 
country’s estimated  2.62 million colonies.  
* The abstract  for the survey can be found at 
http://beeinformed.org/2013/05/winter-loss-survey-2012-2013  . A complete analysis of the survey data 
will be published later this year.   
* Funding for  the survey came from the Agriculture and Food Research 
Initiative of USDA’s  National Institute of Food and Agriculture.  
* More  information about honey bee health and CCD can be found at 
_www.ars.usda.gov/ccd_ (http://www.ars.usda.gov/ccd)  .   
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