I do not know how the winter was in your area but our winter killed
off most of the wild and cultivated honeybees. They need to get out
every 5 - 6 weeks to relieve themselves and need flying temperatures
(45 degrees F minimum). We had several periods of lower temperatures
for more than 6 weeks and so they died.

Hmmmm.... I don't know about that stat for this area. We did seem to have
some pretty cold stretches of weather here, but it didn't seem to be all
that worse than any other year.

Maybe it's time to buy some bees.

James