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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that more than 42 percent of honeybee colonies died over the past year, and for the first time since the survey started in 2010, losses in the summer have now eclipsed losses seen over the winter months.

While the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder was first noticed nearly a decade ago, recent years have seen a reduction in the severity of the annual die-offs, until this past year, now up from last year’s 34 percent loss.
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