All 4 hives of our bees made it through the winter but then all of them died in the spring. We blame it on all of the lawn spraying in our area. Almost all of our neighbors have lawn care services. We live on 4 acres but the bees can travel 2 miles in search of food so we think that they contacted poisons applied to lawns as well as the local farms close to where I live.
We have given up on keeping bees for the first time in 20 years.
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